Guilt of the Day 4/20/09: Vegas TSA Officials = EPIC FAIL

Keep this in the back of your mind the next time you're hopping on a flight out of McCaren Airport: the guy sitting next to you may have checked a bomb on board. That's right, I said it: B-O-M-B.

Just when you thought those 9/11 Security Fees you've been paying for the last 7 years have been put to good use, it turns out that we apparently have some stupid motherfuckers working for the TSA. A U.S. Marine was arrested on Sunday at Logan Airport in Boston after it was discovered that he had an undeclared handgun in his checked luggage, along with "several boxes of 9 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, three model rocket engines containing an explosive mixture, military pull-type fuses, switches, electronics kit boxes with various components, and a hand grenade fuse assembly with detonator," according to the article on Boston.com.

You might be thinking that I'm wrong - clearly the TSA was doing its job. Nope. This military man's sojourn in Boston was a LAYOVER. His originating flight was out of Las Vegas, NV, where apparently TSA officials were completely blind to the collection of guns and ammo in the man's suitcase. In fact, the only reason that this man's paraphenalia was discovered is that baggage handlers mistakenly sent his luggage to baggage claim rather than routing it to his connecting flight to Charlotte, NC. Were it not for that mistake, the Marine would have successfully transported a semi-automatic handgun, ammunition for said handgun, and all the fixin's necessary to build a homemade explosive device across the U.S. without being detected.

Homeland Security my ass. I want my tax dollars back.

(source: Boston.com)