Tales From The TSA

Steven Hayward posted a story at Power Line yesterday about his recent visit to Poalillo Vineyards and Winery.  During his visit to the winery, he noticed that in the tasting room there was a bin of mismatched corkscrews.  The corkscrews were for sale, marked as “reclaimed wine openers.”  When Mr. Hayward asked where they were reclaimed from, he was told that they had been confiscated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Mr. Hayward concludes:

I suggest one simple filter: any Islamic person carrying a wine corkscrew probably is a terrorist, so go ahead and confiscate theirs.  But that would be profiling.

Common sense and government just don’t seem to have anything in common. On a recent visit out of state, I met another senior citizen who did not understand why the TSA had taken away her hairspray that had been packed in her carry-on luggage. She was a sweet, little old gray-haired lady who was no threat to anyone. We need someone in charge who will exercise common sense at the TSA.