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U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage

www.cbsnews.com U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage

The governors of Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Virginia wrote a letter Tuesday asking the territory to show mercy to the Americans arrested on the island.

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www.cbsnews.com /news/turks-and-caicos-ammo-governors-urge-release-americans-sharitta-shinise-grier/

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TSA confirmed to CBS News its officers missed the four rounds of hunting ammo in Watson's carry-on when he and his wife departed from Oklahoma City in April. A spokesperson for the agency told CBS News the TSA is addressing the oversight internally.
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- It's a shit job with shit pay to deal with assholes all day and you don't even know if you'll get that shit pay if congress can't come up with a deal every few months. I don't blame them.
  
  It's a shit job that shouldn't exist. It's all security theater and always has been.
  
  I blame them. I see people doing literal shit jobs (cleaning bathrooms) every day for shittier pay and they even have a smile in their faces from time to time. They definitely don’t go out of their way to be assholes to everyone around them and spread their misery.
  It’s an organization culture thing. I’ve been to airports where they just do their jobs, and I’ve been to ones where they think they’re cops and act accordingly: as bastards.
  
  I have yet to have a TSA person be an asshole to me. Curt, maybe. An asshole, no.
  
  The latest I’ve personally witnessed was one sadistically mishandling an obviously expensive violin to torture the poor girl that was trying to get through X-ray to embark.
  That was in Houston, and other people I know that live the say that going through TSA there is always between bad and terrible. I’ve been to Memphis and they were fine.
  
  That honestly sounds more like a texas thing than a TSA thing as sadism is their official state pasttime.
  
  I asked whether the cancer box was compulsory or whether I could get a pat-down instead. What followed was a difference of labeling opinion where one debater had ultimate power over the other. I had to get reeeeally Canadian to still make my flight.
  Got my pat-down.
  
  If you're worried about radiation, don't get on an airplane at all. You'll get a lot more being that high in the atmosphere than you will walking through a security scanner.
- It's okay - just as long as it's not a slightly larger pack of toothpaste, or god forbid some water. Luckily those get caught, so we're still safe.

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