LaGuardia TSA botches handling of bomb material

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Clueless TSA agents found two possible pipe bombs in a passenger’s luggage yesterday at La Guardia Airport — and kept them in a public area for six hours without notifying cops, The Post has learned.

The Transportation Security Administration bozos at one point left the pipes — which eventually turned out to be harmless — resting on a radiator as hundreds of fliers passed through security nearby, sources said.

“Six hours to report a potential bomb? It’s outrageous,” one Port Authority police official fumed.

The stunning security screw-up, a violation of TSA policy of alerting police to all suspicious activity, began at about 11:30 a.m. at the central terminal when the male flier’s bags passed through an X-ray machine, the sources said.

“When I saw the image, I took a step backward and said, ‘What’s that?!’ ” one startled TSA employee said, according to police sources.

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  • Tomtom

    The blame is at the top: Napolitano and Holder must GO!

    • John

      Did you read the whole story ?… Those "key stone" IDIOTS couldn't pull their heads out of their behinds with a tow truck ! What a bunch of laugh a minute idiots ! Man , I feel like spending my spare time loitering around TSA stations , what a comical way to kill time !

    • upaces88

      Tom, I don't think they were "EVER" prepared for an actual bomb. (Stick with me here a minute, okay?).
      Their training and preparation seemed to have "more to do with MOLESTING" people "in the NAME of SECURITY"
      in order to make Americans "compliant" to any ORDER Obama decided.

      They would have had the steps down during training "IF" and "WHEN" they found an actual bomb — this tells me
      their security has always been a SHAM.

  • Andy

    These are the folks licensed to "feel you up" and not be castigated for it! AND, they are unable to recognize a bomb when they see one! Go figure. If I'd aspired to that level of intellect early in my life, I'd still be on the lowest rung of the ladder! Hmmmm!

  • Big Ugly

    The TSA "expert" determined that they could be "dangerous"?
    Maybe, if someone shoved them up the "expert's" butt.

    • John

      No kidding ! They were "empty" pipes ! I don't think that calling them out of work Burger King employees , is even REMOTELY fair to Burger King employees !

  • pierce

    With the education and dedication that I have witnessed in Airports among TSA inspectors I am not surprised. Half the inspectors were probably handed the uniform and the job. Sorry I am so cynical, but that is the way I see it.

  • Richard

    Ok since this thing came under the control of the federal government I have always said well we are about as safe as we were when minimum wage security people were handling it, just at about ten times the cost.

  • jimmy2beans

    Well that proves it!

    The TSA is not about protection of our transportation network. Apparently they are there to make sure most travelers are groped and molested.

    Doesn't anybody in government see through this whimsical charade? It would be funny except that our tax dollars are financing the circumvention of the Fourth Amendment upon U.S. citizens.

  • http://www.chick.com Raymond

    BEND OVER AND PREPARE TO RECEIVE YOUR BOUNTY!
    President Obama completed the unholy and ANTI-AMERICAN trifecta:

    1st president in 110 years to miss the annual Army-Navy Football Game.
    1st president to not attend any Christmas religious observance.
    1st president to stay on vacation after a terrorist attack.

    AND ALL IN THE SAME MONTH! WHAT A GREAT PRESIDENT

    • RLM357

      Don't forget he cancelled the National Day of Prayer but prayed with Muslims within two days in D.C. ~Rick Magee, FL

    • upaces88

      Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
      A betrayal of trust or confidence.

      Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/treason#ixzz1kckzTDV…

    • Larrya pa

      HE is not an american any how so it don,t matter ,ithink they like socker in Kenya or is it suck him?

  • http://www.chick.com Raymond

    Simple and effective:

    Here is the solution to all the controversy over full body scanners.

    Have a booth that you can step into that will not x-ray you,but will detonate any explosives you may have on your body. It would be a win-win for everyone and there would none of this garbage about racial profiling, and this method would eliminate a long and expensive trial.

    Justice would be swift.

    This is so simple, it’s brilliant. I can see it now. You’re in the
    airport and you hear a muffled explosion.

    Shortly you hear an announcement over the PA system. Attention stand by passengers. We now have a seat available on flight 91.

    Paging maintenance. Shop Vac needed in booth #5

  • http://www.chick.com Raymond

    Barack Obama was seated next to a little girl on an airplane trip back to Washington.
    He turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up
    a conversation with your fellow passenger."

    The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to The Obama,
    "What would you like to talk about?"

    "Oh, I don't know," said the Obama. "How about What Changes I Should Make To America?"
    and he smiles.

    "OK," she says. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first.
    A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets,
    while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do
    you suppose that is?"

    Obama, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it for a second and
    finally says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."

    To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to change America when you
    don't know crap?"

    • k33j88

      Thank you Raymond—-that's some funny stuff!!!

  • Myrtlelinder

    I'd far rather report such a thing and it be negative than not report and it be alive, ready to go off. What total inefficentcy , totally inexcusable.

  • DocJohnM

    Why doesn't that surprise me? I've seen TSA Agents I wouldn't trust to blow their own noses. This story is totally unremarkable!

  • dingbat36

    If we really wanted to find dangerous materials at the airports, we would have explosives experts to do the "inspecting" not people who would expect the frosting on a cupcake to be dangerous…………if there were a hint of danger why not just ask the passenger to remove the top of the cupcake and EAT IT?

  • prayforchange

    You all are confused; this is not the purpose of the TSA. The TSA is just another step to strip us of our freedoms and desensitize us.

  • RLM357

    Maybe the TSA thought it was a BONG and thought heck mon dat aint nuttin!

  • RLM357

    Once a Terrorist gets into the concourse it's Game Over! Inspect the bags Outside by running them through scanners for explosives and use X Rays. Put suspects in a bomb proof enclosure and bombard them with Radio signals to set off electronic mechanisms. It would only take One to set an example.

  • SEAN MURRY

    They are a bunch of screw ups.

  • Sharon Jeanguenat

    Personally, IF I ever fly, which getting more & more doubtful, I'm taking my chances with the scanner. I'm not too worried about myself, since I never intend to fly, but I sure am worried about some dingbat getting loose in the country, & harming a lot of people. I'm 62, so have lived my life pretty much, but I have grandchildren who are just getting started, & I sure don't want them being given some kind of incurable disease, or radiation poisoning or blown to bits, because of the idiots who are working for the TSA. Napolitano, & Holder need to be thrown out of office, & get somebody in there with some intelligence.

    • Larrya pa

      WE already have a nut bag running the country doing alot of damage.

  • Wolf-Talker

    Sleep tight the TSA is on the job!

  • noob

    They seem to be good at manhandling elderly women and underage kids.

  • jim in TX

    Thousands Standing Around all of them union thugs and most of them with only a 3rd grade
    education. Here is a fun game to play while You are in the airport next time if You have a smart phone.
    take pictures of the TSA clowns then go to the SEX Offender web site and see how many of them are
    on the list.!!! and how many of them have warrents

  • http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ Silas Longshot

    With the personal contacts with TSA personell, while traveling, the postitions seemed staffed by large numbers of 'union fodder' people who possibly had to have help reading and filling out the job application. A few years back, one 'security expert' took 10 minutes to try and figure out how to open a 'high tech' windproof butane lighter. http://astore.amazon.com/survurbacris-20/detail/B…

    So this ain't no surprise.

    Click the name, learn to survive now!

  • Robert

    I think they are cloned Nazis

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