# Wouldn't it be funny if this guy is on the "No Fly list" and they send him back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464 "2012-05-19T21:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/1 "2012-05-19T21:41:35Z")
10 to 1 a TSA agent gropes him upon arrival at Newark. 😃 That’s assuming TSA doesn’t send his ass back because he’s on a No Fly List. 😛 Rumor has it that he’s known as somewhat of an agitator in his homeland. 😃 Sure hope he doesn’t have any shaving cream or shampoo in his carry on. Welcome to America Mr. Chen, the land of the TSA and Homeland Security. > **[Chinese human rights activist Chen arrives in U.S. | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/19/world/asia/china-us-chen/index.html)** > > Activist Chen Guangcheng, his wife and two children arrived Saturday evening in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/2 "2012-05-19T21:54:11Z")
I’m assuming everyone is well aware of the prolonged diplomatic struggle it took to win Chen’s freedom of travel from China. Hillary had to intervene personally during her visit. Otherwise this joke will fall flat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/3 "2012-05-19T23:22:51Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Otherwise this joke will fall flat. 😉 It’s just a shit joke. Didn’t really have enough smilies to make it work. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/4 "2012-05-20T00:27:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m assuming everyone is well aware of the prolonged diplomatic struggle it took to win Chen’s freedom of travel from China. Hillary had to intervene personally during her visit. > > Otherwise this joke will fall flat. 😉 Whereas if you _are_ aware of the context, it’s just in incredibly poor taste. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/5 "2012-05-20T00:56:02Z")
Google shows 10 pages of links for TSA Jokes. Everybody who flies has a TSA joke. Jokes make the ordeal of Flying in today’s crazy paranoid security frenzied TSA a little more tolerable. There’s a lot of irony that a person escaping from a totalitarian system’s _first experience_ in America will be a TSA grope. Most of my jokes are more bitter irony than satire because that’s the way I roll. Somebody has to make jokes about a system that’s groping 85 year old senior citizens and 4 year old kids. I bet you guys hated Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor too. There jokes weren’t up to todays tight ass PC standards either. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/6 "2012-05-20T01:30:59Z")
But why would he be groped on arrival? You go through security on the way to board the airplane. Customs and Immigration aren’t TSA. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/7 "2012-05-20T01:56:32Z")
I got groped by the TSA on my way to Las Vegas on Monday. The dude was not amused when I asked if I got a happy ending. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/8 "2012-05-20T02:21:48Z")
\ I thought maybe he was catching a connecting flight from Newark to somewhere in the U.S. Newark is International and most people connect from there to wherever they are going. I’d imagine he’ll get a special escort through customs. The article said he carried no passport or Visa. He was ejected from China rather hurriedly. 🙂 > [@suranyi](#): > > But why would he be groped on arrival? You go through security on the way to board the airplane. Customs and Immigration aren’t TSA. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/9 "2012-05-20T02:28:10Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I got groped by the TSA on my way to Las Vegas on Monday. The dude was not amused when I asked if I got a happy ending. But you amused me just now in the retelling, so it was worth it in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-funny-if-this-guy-is-on-the-no-fly-list-and-they-send-him-back/622464/10 "2012-05-20T02:49:51Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > But why would he be groped on arrival? You go through security on the way to board the airplane. Customs and Immigration aren’t TSA. If you have a connecting flight after you go through Customs you have to be re-screened. I had the pleasure just this past Thursday. And a good thing, too! In Saskatoon they didn’t even make me take off my shoes. Og only knows what nefarious plot I might have been up to!