Monday, December 31st, 2007...4:05 pm
Improvised (In)security Devices
I’ve spent more time in more airports and in more airplanes in the past month than in the previous six years.
Six years after terrorists used airplanes as improvised explosive devices, couldn’t we reasonably expect that airport screening stations would be adequately furnished for the purpose? Couldn’t we expect American ingenuity (and manufacturing initiative) to devise a balance of convenience and efficiency?
Checking through our National Airport last week, however, I found a series of federal surplus six-foot utility tables shoved together. Before my return flight from O’Hare, I encountered stainless-steel kitchen utility tables arranged in a zig-zag Z configuration that required my pushing and dragging carry-on suitcase, carry-on briefcase, one grey tub for laptop, one grey tub for shoes and pocket contents, one grey tub for top coat and sport coat.
I felt like Lucy in the chocolate factory.
Doesn’t our “National” airport or one of our busiest airports (and the customers served) deserve something better?
4 Comments
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Amen, Father Long. Before your blog, I had never thought of the TSA as ugly before; I had always thought that they were just officious or, at times, lazy. You would think that, after all of that money spent, they would at least vary the color of the tubs!
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
I’d like to know if the tubs are Rubbermaid (an American company that has been reported to be in deep financial trouble, partly as a result of Walmart price slashing requirements) or a Chinese manufacturer.
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