Because we’ve had such a rash of train bombings in Chicago lately, the police will now require you to submit to random bag inspections. They’ll swab your bag to test for explosives. You must submit in order to ride the train.
Solving a problem that doesn’t exist and a waste of officer time. I’m contacting all my elected officials from Governor Quinn down to my Alderman
So if they’re checking for explosives and they find my weed I’m cool, right?
Only if you have a. security clearance. Else, you will be administratively renditioned to a secret govenment “processing facility” in South Dakota for “enhanced interrogation”.
Stranger
Yes, and hijacking planes to use them as weapons was once a problem that didn’t exist. Aren’t you glad we didn’t waste our tax dollars on preventing such ludicrious scenarios?
I read about hijacking planes and using them as weapons back in the Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor, back in the 1990s.
I’m not at all worried about explosives on the CTA. I’m also not worried about hijacking planes for weapons. The TSA is a useless security masquerade and a waste of time and money.
And aren’t you glad we didn’t waste our tax dollars on preventing a silly thing like that that could never possibly happen in the real world?
The terrorists who hijacked American Airlines flights 11, 93, 175, and United Airlines flight 93 did so by using implements (box cutters) which were in no way restricted on board aircraft at that time. No amount of security would have prevented that. What would have prevented such a hijacking would have been securely locking flight deck doors, which took several years to be fully implemented in the US despite the fact that many countries such as Israel have required them on domestic commercial aircraft for years. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), on the other hand, was hurriedly conceived and implemented, immediately hired several metric shittons of people with questionable and sometimes criminal backgrounds, has cost an enormous amount of money to harass the flying public, squander resources on ill-advised security and screening systems, and has experienced countless real and potential breaches of security which, had they happened to any other law enforcement agency such as the FBI or the US Secret Service, would have been grounds for reorganization and removal of top management, but for TSA is just another day in paradise.
Aren’t you glad we spent our tax dollars so we could have a jobs program for barely employable people to stand around in airports with blue shirts ensuring that your bottle of shampoo doesn’t exceed 3 oz in volume?
Stranger
Yeah, you guys might be better off if you didn’t respond to Smapti.
Anyway, I could give two fucks about explosives. Can they start dispatching cops to check for assholes putting their bag on the seat next to them at rush hour? This shitty, barely-functional Ventra card costs me $100 every month, you twat, so get your goddamn bag off my seat. I always sit next to people who do this just to punish them. Those people are the real terrorists.
Well, the City has already filled in all the potholes, locked up all the gang-bangers, and balanced the budget. What else are they supposed to do with their time?
I suppose I’d be a bit worried that they’ve filled in all the potholes, dealt with all the gang-bangers, and balanced the budget with the windfall of explosives they’ve seized on the CTA.
Selling the explosives to balance the budget is sketchy, but OK I guess. But blowing up the gang-bangers and filling in potholes with TNT and ANFO is a damn bad idea.
They’re setting up at one random stop a day and stopping a random number of passengers with bags before they enter. Even if there was a threat, I can’t see how this would be remotely effective. All it would take is for a bomber to see them checking bags and deciding to walk a few blocks to the next stop.
I don’t even have words for how much this pisses me off. Will it effect me at all? Not even in the slightest, as I don’t use the trains during hours when they’ll be doing these screenings. And likely neither will the people carrying those ever-present bomb materials that are so pervasive.
Gee, it wouldn’t be useful to have extra cops actually riding the trains, would it? It’s not like people get mugged, robbed at gunpoint, sexually assaulted, beat the crap out of each other, or do shit like snort coke, is it?
I won’t feel a damn bit safer, thanks to this mind-numbingly stupid idea. Forehead-slapping retarded is what it is.
Or just blowing up a bus instead. Or just taking a bus to the next most appealing train line.
There was a bunch of yelling at the TV when I saw this on the news. Clearly thought up by the short bus numbnuts who never ride the CTA.
Keanu Reeves has put a stop to that. It’s very simple; just shoot the hostage.
Terrorist: “But I wasn’t holding a hostage!”
Jack: “Well, I’m not that bright, okay.”
Stranger
There has to be a city contract angle. The claim is that there is a federal grant to pay for this CTA bag screening. Let’s see what private entity gets the money down the line.
Chicago Security Theater Presents: The Comedy Of Errors
Except Rahm DOES ride the CTA!
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Can they start dispatching cops to check for assholes putting their bag on the seat next to them at rush hour? This shitty, barely-functional Ventra card costs me $100 every month, you twat, so get your goddamn bag off my seat. I always sit next to people who do this just to punish them. Those people are the real terrorists.
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Buy that lady a transfer! You’re my hero for the day.
Sounds like they just swab the exterior of the bag and put it into some sort of device to sniff for residue (I wonder what that device is. Mass spec?). I guess my question is are they looking for drug residue as well. Because if they are, I bet they catch a lot more druggies than they do bombers.
If they fill the potholes with gang-bangers it will save on incarceration costs, which will help balance the budget while at the same time making the gang-bangers useful to both society & your suspension.