Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Failback Position: DFW Shows that Lemmings Have Been Around A Long Time

It's time again to go back for seconds from the endless buffet of TSA failures that we here at TSAFail call the Failback Position. Today's morsel comes, once again, from 2003- this time courtesy of the fine TSA Officers at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. The flavor should be familiar to anyone who has read the last three posts. Screener flags passenger for secondary screening... screener loses passenger... terminal evacuated. It's just like boy meets girl, boy loses girl- except with thousands inconvenienced.
The DFW TSA screeners in the Full Story below, were clearly on the cutting edge of a trend that has continued strong to this day. It turns out that nationwide between 2002 and 2004, this particular fail occurred over 30 times. At what point does the pile of lemmings at the bottom of the cliff cushion the fall of those above?

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