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TSA to ID-less Fliers: Attitude is Everything

June 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM | 0 Comments

Revelers who lost their wallets at last night's solstice parties had best check their righteous attitudes at the airport door. To celebrate the first full day of summer, the TSA has implemented new airport ID requirements, and they seem to boil down to this: If you want access to secure areas of airports, either have an ID with you or be really nice.

The TSA's chirpy Evolution of Security blog puts it thusly:

If you simply state you forgot your ID, we will work with you to verify your ID, you may undergo some additional screening and will be permitted to fly.

On the other hand, if you do not cooperate and state that you're not willing to show us your ID, you will not be permitted to fly.

The announcement set off the usual chorus of complaints in the blog's free-for-all comment zone, but we can't imagine showing up for a flight with nothing in our pockets but a linty tin of Altoids. In any case, the TSA insists this isn't about control, but rather ensuring that no terrorist super-ninjas are able to sneak onto airplanes, since "the naked human body of someone skilled in martial arts is far more dangerous than most people with a weapon." Maybe that's the answer right there: Everybody flies naked. Just a thought.

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