the1andonlyGR81
Dedicated LVC Member
on my way back from Boston today i met what could possibly be the dumbest group of people who are supposed to be in charge of our safety.what most people dont know isthat the 'security checkpoint' at airports is employed with subcontracted companies like the ones that pepper florida at condos, business gates, etc.people who make 8-11 bucks an hour have no experience doing anything. there were like a dozen or so 'gangsta' dressed people, several middle easterners, and a few shifty looking characters who put their stuff in the bin go through the detector, pick up their stuff and move on. didnt even remove their shoes, which is a reqiurement that everyone else was doing! they were pulling old ladies, families with kids to the side full pat down socks n shoes going over entirebody with the sniffer( that detects drugs, explosives, metal, etc) which is supposed to be used at random, but everybody is supposed to get the wand. then they get to me. and there were other wheelchairs but first the guy asks me to " get up" and sit in this other chair while they investegate my chair. I first ask him cant he see im in a wheelchair and cant get up, then they bring me a plastic chair i can transfer into (the other chair was on a platform with steps) then they want to disassemble the chair, they want to do a strip search, they bring in the dog. i say what the :q:q:q:q do i look like? im traveling with my mother and what about the dozen other wheelchairs they didnt even stop! i want a cop, supervisor, something. 30 minutes go by plane starts boarding in 10 min and they havent done squat.then they got like 5 idiots trying to figure out how to take my chair apart i told them id be happy to do it or show them so they dont :q:q:q:q it up " im not allowed to assist in any way".its a $5,000 chair and all chairs come apart the same way, the ones that do.theres not enough room on this page to explain how long it took them to figure out how to push in the hub center to release the wheel. the seat cushion is air and i didnt bring a pump it was 5 stooges. missed the plane put the thing back together myself in 2 min. they were all amazed. i was met finally after an hour and a half by the head of sec. who was dumber than the lot of them my mother tore him a new ass and wouldnt let me even get a word in.turns out he wanted to give some newer employees some on the job training at my expense. were it not for the threat of committing a felony in an airport i would have punched him in the nuts. just a dumb, stupid experience and no i refused the stripsearch.