Two Stupid Things in the News

[Ben]

Two completely unrelated, but stupid, things I saw in the news today, that further lead us into idiocracy:


The TSA is now emulating "zero tolerance" schools:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/01/11/texas-tech-student-questioned-by-tsa-for-brandishing-schools-finger-gun-salute.html


How the hell do you fall for this?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/wisconsin-woman-loses-2000-after-being-completely-fooled-by-wallet-scam.html

[Brad Johnson]

Two completely unrelated, but stupid, things I saw in the news today, that further lead us into idiocracy:


The TSA is now emulating "zero tolerance" schools:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/01/11/texas-tech-student-questioned-by-tsa-for-brandishing-schools-finger-gun-salute.html


How the hell do you fall for this?

Yeah, we have to keep the world safe from finger-gun-toting blonde college age Caucasian females bouncing merrily through the airport.

Only the TSA would be so abysmally inept that a college hand gesture second only to the Univ of Texas 'Hook 'Em Horns' for recognition in Texas gets you pulled aside for questioning in a Texas airport. They wonder why we look at them with such scorn then turn around and do something this daffy.

Brad

[K Frame]

"How the hell do you fall for this?"

Greed makes stupid people even stupider.

[230RN]

Looking at that coed's pix, I find the TSAbot's desire for a closer look more or less forgivable.   

(I wonder if she has a publicity dude who put her up to this.)


Terry