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‘Security Risk’: Woman Allegedly Kicked Off Flight After Photographing ‘Rude’ Employee

A Miami photographer is claiming U.S. Airways did something very un-American on Friday: it kicked her off a flight after she photographed the name tag of a rude employee in Philadelphia. And that’s even after she apparently deleted the picture.

Sandy DeWitt told the photography blog Photography is Not a Crime on Saturday that an employee named Tonialla G. was being rude to several passengers in the gate area. DeWitt decided to snap a picture of the woman’s name tag so she could later complain. But after taking her seat on the plane, and minutes from take-off, the employee boarded the plane and confronted DeWitt.

“She told me to delete the photo,” DeWitt told the photography blog. DeWitt decided to oblige, mainly because the picture turned out too dark and was unusable anyway. But that apparently wasn’t enough enough for the employee:

“I complied with her wishes but it’s not something I would normally do,” she said. “It just wasn’t usable.”

But Tonialla G. wouldn’t let the issue go. She then walked into the cockpit to inform the pilot that DeWitt was a “security risk.”

Next thing DeWitt knew, she was being escorted off the plane by two flight attendants. Her husband followed.

“I announced to the other passengers that I was being removed because I took a photo,” she said. “ I announced that photography is not a crime.”

The irony in all this? DeWitt said she spoke to a U.S. Airways manager who confirmed that she was deemed a security risk, but despite her being labeled as such, he directed her to use another airline.

The story does seem odd at first glance. Are passengers really at the mercy of rogue airline agents who can deem anyone they don’t like a “security risk?” According to DeWitt’s story, yes.

But maybe there’s more to the story. Maybe DeWitt’s actions were suspicious. Maybe — but if that’s the case, why weren’t the police notified, and why was she directed to another airline?

A reader on the photography blog where the story first broke brings up some valid points if the story is true and there are no additional details. Mainly, the employee’s retaliatory actions make light of actual security threats (that is if DeWitt was generally not a security threat):

The flight attendant made a knowingly false statement about the security status of a passenger, with the intent to punish that passenger for behavior that is not only legal but, so far as we are aware as yet, does not even violate that airline’s policy or posted rules. It’s one thing for a flight representative to tell someone to stop and then punish them for not following your directives. That, at least, is (somewhat) supported by the FAA, assuming that the flight attendant’s directive is legally supported. (We’ll ignore that aspect for now.) But to claim that someone is a security risk (again, ignoring the reason why for the moment), *after they’ve already complied with your order* is a flat-out lie.

Airports have signs posted that “security is not a laughing matter”. I can only assume that this means they take this sort of thing seriously. So how will they handle an issue in which a passenger exhibited *no* risky behavior (who did something that, while the flight attendant may not have liked, was still legal), and the flight attendant lied to the pilot and to other flight attendants, thereby causing them to make a security decision they may not have otherwise if made aware of the facts, resulting in punitive action against and cost to the passenger (in adjustments to their schedule, possible missed connections and car/hotel reservations, as well as a possible hotel cost that night), as well as additional cost to the airline itself due to a delay in the airline’s schedule, two (her plus husband) lost seat revenue, and the cost of obtaining two seats on another airline – in this case, Southwest.

While this may just be a case of a flight attendant having a bad day or disliking having their picture taken, the fact remains that the flight attendant is in a position of power (that of being able to accuse a passenger of being a security risk and removing that passenger from the plane on such grounds), and this flight attendant seems to have clearly abused that power. In my mind, termination should be a given. What is questionable is whether or not there are grounds for legal charges stemming from making a false report. What happened here is just wrong, and that flight attendant has no business being in charge of passengers.

For what it’s worth, the passenger broke no laws, unless there is some kind of local statute against photography on planes, which would surprise me. Taking a photograph in airports (including screening areas, so long as it is not of the X-ray machine screens themselves) is not against TSA regulations. Just google “tsa photography section 2.7″ (without the quotes), and you’ll find everything you need to know. Now, taking a photo on private property (I suppose a US Airways plan could be considered their private property) is subject to restrictions if signs were posted, but it doesn’t sound like any were. Once the passenger is notified of a no-photography policy, they must stop or could be subject to trespassing charges, but the passenger did stop. And, prior to being asked to stop, any photographs taken are the private property of the photographer. Any request to delete them has no legal grounds, and being forced to do so could constitute destruction of property.

Know your rights, kids. ;-)

The Blaze reached out to U.S. Airways for comment but has not heard back.

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  • agameofthrones
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:45am

    ………..and yet we have cameras in our stores and on our roads and public buildings taking pictures of us whether we like it or not. I’m not flying either. The police/nanny state is out of control. No wonder our kids are so screwed up. We need to start developing some serious backbones out there to fight against the tide of tyranny everywhere from this government. If we don’t stand against it, we will be swallowed by it.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:43am

    The mighty engine of US commerce heavily relies on flying for many business travelers & need in a hurry freight. Emergency & intercontinental travelers also rely on flight. To stop flying is not an option in those cases.

    Leisure flight is only a limited portion of the airline industry; a lot of those people have already stopped flying. I don’t think we could ever force enough of a change in the market place to make a change.

    The ballot box & writing your reps in govt. is how we’ll make a change.

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  • Salamander
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:42am

    Sounds like the picture was of the name tag and not the employee! Hmmm, maybe the photographer was suspected of trying to make an image of nametag, so it could be used to fabricate another, unauthorized name badge? Do the name badges include a (c) symbol? Should they? — Actually, sounds like both flight attendant and passenger exercised bad judgement. However, sounds like flight attendant went a bit overboard with it. On the other hand, how else can one handle an ‘unruly’ passenger in a confined space? One of the two would have to be put off the flight–AND, the crew will always win as the flight cannot go without the crew member, but it can fly without the passenger!

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  • biffo
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:38am

    Tonoalla or whatever her name is is black? Photog is white? There you go.

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  • Richard Compton
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:36am

    The very idea that an employee of a company that you are a paying customer with can accuse you of being a security risk for taking a picture of him or her in an airport situation is not acceptable behavior. This whole incident should be investigated by the airline. Those present in the area where the original incident too place should be contacted or they should contact the airline to insure such a thing does not happen again.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:35am

    I had the pleasure of attempting to connect at Miami over the weekend. After several cancellations and overflow of people, was easier to rent a car and continue on my way than to deal with the variety of helpless folks.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:34am

    Yes, I refuse to fly also – drove to Ohio from Texas for vacation – even though I know it doesn’t do anything to stop it. It doesn’t matter if the passenger was rude too or whatever – it’s the principle of the thing about how this stuff is getting like the “police state” – and pushing mandatory rules like the naked x-rays, degrading pat downs, etc. that do NOT protect us from terrorists on planes. I hear people saying how most are being like “sheeple”, believing the lies told them about security, & just taking this like zombies. They think it’s necessary – no!!! We must keep fighting this TSA nonsense – Soros was coneected to this (he had a lot of shares in the machines) but sold them when it became controversial….they want us to get used to this & then have them all over – like malls, etc., slowly indoctrinating, “training” the masses to submit to their wishes for more control. all for “security”. The answer that works is you do as Israel does but that includes the dreaded profiling which is not “pc” here & that‘s why they don’t do it. It’s very alarming – wake up!

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:31am

    Disregarding any supposed rudeness, the issues here are:

    Taking a picture is not a crime in itself – unless the photographer was violating posted & stated policy or law.
    An airline employee demanding that anyone delete legal photos from their personal camera.
    An airline employee informing the flight crew that someone is a Security Risk only because they took a lawful picture.
    A passenger deemed a Security Risk by the flight crew and removed from the plane based only on the likely false accusations by an airline employee.
    The supposedly Security Risk passenger was directed to fly another airline? Yeah, that’s certainly protecting us from security risks & terrorism.

    Sounds to me like this airline employee is probably a known pain in the a$$ and the flight crew didn’t want to deal with the trouble she’d make if her demands were not met.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:01pm

      @MidWestMom
      “Taking a picture is not a crime in itself – unless the photographer was violating posted & stated policy or law.”

      Lets clear up this misconception about posted & stated policy. Posted policy carries no authority. Even on private property. For example, many malls post no photography signs so that’s a posted policy. However I still have the right to take pictures in the mall. The only recourse the mall has is to ask me to leave, which I must do if they ask me to, but I can still photograph anything I care to on the way out. The same applies to any private property. Noone has the legal right to stop me unless I am in violation of the law. Posted policy means nothing as far as photography is concerned.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:14pm

      @ Oldphoto678

      Thanks for clearing that up. And good information for others – especially in airports these days.

      My thoughts were based on the possibility that a private company could legally have the policy of a ‘no photo’ rule regarding personal ID information of employees.

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    • mydogtippy
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:41pm

      your right

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  • MontanaRob
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:30am

    Also, I can still wear a sidearm all the way on private aircraft!

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:28am

    It won’t be long before the “no photography allowed” signs are EVERYWHERE. Remember that old 60″s song about signs? “Thank you Lord for thinkin‘ bout’ me, I’m alive and doin fine!” Just like that sign on those big rig sand and gravel trucks. “STAY BACK 300 FEET! NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BROKEN WINDSHIELDS!” Yes, you are. the days are gone when cops would pull over a flatbed cause they didn’t sweep the rocks/debris off the truck or get a ticket. It’s always someone elses fault.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:36am

      We have stopped traveling by air. This decision was made when they took my comb with 4 little hair lifters on the end, in Peru. This was after having gone through 3 airports with comb. I asked her why and she acted like it was a weapon. I’ve seen people throw away expensive make up & facial creams etc. and it really broke my heart they have that much Authority over us. Pleeze start profiling those who
      are out to cause harm, not your everyday traveler. If I can’t drive, swim or row a boat, I’m not going.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:47am

      Besides which, I’ve always though a sharp #2 pencil could cause more harm than a little plastic comb, the tines break off if you use it too hard. Maybe I’m just pizzed about this, but that’s just how I am, I like to take a stand. Another time I lost a bottle of drinking water in Hawaii where we had to wait several hours for flight, without water I had just bought because I knew this boarding area was outdoors and hot.
      If someone really wants to bring something dangerous on board, get real, these TSA types have let all kinds of things go through because they aren’t doing the job 100%. They’ve been tested time & again and let serious things get through, not combs & etc. They seem to harass the children & old women, not the most likely ones who are out to blow us up. When will they do anus checks?

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  • jessieH
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:27am

    The only course of action is a boycott of USAirways. As long as people continue to fly on USAirways, nothing will change, and it will keep getting worse.

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    • liberal_equals_liar
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:21pm

      US Airways. Noted.

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    • merzfan
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Jessieh: This outrage has nothing to do with US Airways or any other airline company. They are just as much under the repressive boot of the power and control hungry progressive elite as any of us who just need to fly places.

      I doubt whether US Air could even discipline old Tanialla for being a rude jerk. Tonialla’s behavior is sanctioned, and even encouraged, by the TSA.

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  • Tyson
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:27am

    Just stop flying!

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  • miketheartist
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:25am

    My fiance and I agree with a number of people here. We won’t fly anymore, not no way, not no how!

    http://www.miketheartist.net

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:23am

    employee named Tonialla G. that says it all. I‘m sure she’s a good Christian black woman that never judges others.

     
    • jakartaman
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:33am

      She did say the picture was too dark to read

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    • Jayhah
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Why would you automatically jump to that conclusion? Do you have a problem with black people?

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    • John-Mary
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Ube – I don’t see why race, skin color or religion has anything to do with it.
      This type of post is why I think TheBlaze is negligent with it’s comments section, let’s raise the bar a bit.

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    • Jamesjim
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:10pm

      JOHN-MARY………You ask the bar to be raised a bit, while you lower it.

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    • tking357
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:58pm

      Naw she goes to Rev Wright church, all people with a different opinon are LIARS!

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:17am

    @Olddog
    We could not get the truckers to stop driving for a week. I don’t think we will get Americans to stop flying for month.

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:27am

      Aaron,
      I have not flown for over a year and will not ever again. I drive now no matter how far it is.

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:31pm

      How about Europe or Hawaii?

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    • babylonvi
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:19pm

      Let’s start with just one day a week. Surely people could rearrange their schedules to not fly on, say, Wednesday.

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    • richard bensen
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:27pm

      Yeah but it’s worth a try.Besides truckers have a better sense of decency and work hard for their money.

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  • Dexter Alarius
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:12am

    Add this to the woman arrested in her own front yard for videoing a police officer abusing his authority, and other such incidents, and it’s clear we are becoming a police state. Do not look sideways at our Overlords or you risk having your rights trampled upon.

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  • olddog
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:06am

    If we can get Everyone to stop flying for just 1-month, we can stop the crazies….

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    • Pastor Ray
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:28pm

      I do not fly anymore if I can‘t drive I don’t go period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05am

    It’s all about the free market. Riding on an airplane is not a right it’s a service for fee transaction. Airlines like other businesses have the right to refuse service. If that airline doesn’t want her $ then it’s likely another will take it.

    Now if this was the US govt. run TSA doing this I’d likely side w/ the photographer.

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    • hightide
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:16am

      Unfortunately, they kicked her off and kept her money.

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    • rizkymom
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Good point, but the article addresses more than the photo and being kicked off the plane. It is pointing out that the grounds for dismissal was SECURITY RISK. In this post 9/11 era those words should carry specific meaning. The flight attendant had her right to request the removal of the passenger, however she did not have the right to deem her a risk. IF we can not cry FIRE in a crowded building, the fire department does not have the right to clear the building because he did not like the food served.

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    • azguy90
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:12pm

      A company refusing service (for a valid reason) is one thing; a vindictive employee lying about a customer is another thing altogether.

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    • CountryMainer
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:10pm

      Sure and if I ran restaurant I can just up and tell folks “I don’t like the way you look“ or ”sorry we don’t serve (fill in the blank) folk here”, sure that won’t get me in any trouble whatsoever…If you provide a public service you have to abide by the law. Airlines provide a public service and they are pretty much monopolies ( for the average citizen) they are bound by law to meet certain standards, more so now then ever before. The “it‘s not a right it’s a priviledge” bit doesn’t wash…

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    • Free the Midwives
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 6:46pm

      OK, so I’ll avoid U.S. Air next time I fly, if I ever fly again… I bet the flight attendants are unionized.

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  • randy
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05am

    I have not flown since this all started with the TSA….. So much nicer to take a couple of extra days and drive :) I refuse to fly ever again….

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    • swalt
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:35am

      I agree with you! I will not fly again. This is Nazi Germany in the mid 30′s, and the TSA are nothing more than Brown Shirts doing their master’s bidding.

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    • Lawlcat001
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:33pm

      seconded

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:03am

    Everyone is at risk to offensive to someone.

    If you where to die today, would you go to Heaven?

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  • PrfctlyFrank
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:01am

    When you take away a societies mobility you gain much control over the society.. The TSA has become an abomanation with arbitrary control over peoples lives.. This cannot continue!!

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  • drattastic
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:00am

    Unfortunately incivility has become the norm. My guess is there was rudeness on both sides but one had power and used it for payback.

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:59am

    Charter a plane.
    It’s not as expensive as you man think. You can time share a small plane with others to differ the cost (much like a beach home time share). The attendants on your plane love to serve you and are very courteous.

    There is no TSA groping or Ticket kiosk, just drive to the General Aviation airport and get on the plane. Easy Peasy.

    Let’s vote these TSA employees out of a job with our wallets.

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:13am

      crap, i miss typed the word “may”… that sentence should read “… you may think.”

      The English Police here at The Blaze are going to have a field day with that.

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:29am

      Mispelling and Grammatical errors are COMMON here. But I promised them I wouldn’t bring it up anymore. Bummer..

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    • MercyMe
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:49am

      Why so petty? Sheeeesh.

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    • BBomber66
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:42am

      @Aaron

      I fat finger, get extra characters, and light finger, miss a character, my self. Hopefully those miscues are readily forgiven. I do cringe and recoil at blatant misspelling, wrong number and incorrect word choice. I keep my reactrions to myself because this forum is not the place for such easy attacks; however, I think they are indicative of our losing the basics of our language much less the skill for disciplined cogent thinking. A basic tenant of writing is to review and edit one’s work, and I have, even in the heat of a response, failed to catch all my typos and gaffes; but I try. It is because of my humanity–my ability to err–that I refrain from throwing stones. So take heart, most of us will read through for the meaning and forgive an author. I for one take heart that you care about our language.

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    • randy
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:06pm

      @AARON IN POLK COUNTY
      Yeah, well, you also need to learn how to spell.
      As in “defer the cost”, not “differ the cost”

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:25am

      I have only flown a handfull of times since 9/11 and they were all on small planes and usually with me doing the piloting of part of it on longer trips.
      If most people would just stop using the airlines for anything other than emergencies for a few weeks and make it known that the TSA and rude employees are the reason, the companies would raise such bloody heck that the TSA might get the boot!

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    • davis51
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:15pm

      Oh they wont get the boot or anything else for that matter because they be union now. Oh how sweet

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    • Honest_E
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:51pm

      Wrong… the Govt would swoop in and bail them out with our tax dollars. Then they would raise the transportation tax to make their money back while all the othe airlines are ouf of a job.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:55am

    .
    Send her back thru security for a “Cavity Search” that will teach her to take a photo.

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:16pm

      Tonialla G. should have had a cavity search before she boarded the plane. But that probably wouldn’t happen because the TSA agents are more into children and elderly white people.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:54am

    OH !!! Is that now a crime too!! Why any of you knuckleheads continue to fly is beyond me!!!

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05am

      Well I guess taking photos is not prohibited…….. One more of our rights being removed…… How dare she
      take a picture of someone being rude…… Just what could she have been thinking.????? Stand up for what you believe in……..

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:12am

      Yep. Me and my trusty Chevy truck ;)

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Five will get you ten that she voted for Obumbler. What the hell is wrong with this country that a flight attendant is suddenly judge and jury? I would say the flight attendant is probably more of a security risk due to her lack of judgement and willingness to lie about a paying passenger’s security status. She should be fired, but will be protected by her union and continue being rude and vengeful.

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    • enduro
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:05pm

      Tonialla G….hhhmmmmm sounds like an angry black woman. imagine that. My wife had to deal with a bunch of angry black woman back when i was in the military. Since they were working for the government they had complete power over you to make your day miserable and they seemed to enjoy it. Just my expirience on the subject, thats all.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:15pm

      What kind of name is Tonialla ???

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:28pm

      I agree. I will not fly any more unless absolutely required. But you miss the point here. Flight crews are government regulated and therefore government ‘employees’. Air travel is federally controlled and therefore Planes, Airports and anything associated with them is the federal government. You may ‘think’ they are ‘public’ but they aren’t.

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    • nysparkie
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:30pm

      One persons suspicious actions are innocuous to another. IMHO Cameras should not be used to film anything near security checkpoints. I don’t care what your constitutional rights say. Any attack is preceded by intelligence. Filming is just another to garner intel on how things work. What could you possibly want to photograph inside a airline check-in point? The chairs? The departure/arrival board? The attendants? If I was one I wouldn’t like it either. The boarding pass line? Hey, go outside by your car and photograph the planes taking off or landing. Enough about your rights! It is inside a stinkin airport after 9/11. Your rights are checked out at the front door. HELLLO!

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:23pm

      @nysparkie
      ” I don’t care what your constitutional rights say. Any attack is preceded by intelligence. Filming is just another to garner intel.”

      Please remember you said that the next time you feel like crying about your rights being taken away.

      Oh, and for the record. There is not one shred of evidence that any terrorist attack has been precided by the gathering of intel by photography.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:35pm

      That attendant should be fired for lying to the captain and falsely accusing a passenger of being a security risk. That is a very serious accusation that shouldn’t be taken lightly but it boils down to character assasination, not a real threat. The flying public needs to form a ‘union’ to represent them as I guarantee this attendant will be well represented if charges are brought against her.

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    • mark_twang
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:33pm

      I refuse to fly, period.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:47pm

      WHY do you keep flying?

      Do you LIKE being molested and treated like criminals by the NAZI TSA and some idiot flight attendant?

      How do you like the TSA and FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND PILOTS telling passengers during post-flight announcements that FILMING SECURITY IS ILLEGAL, WHEN IT ISN’T?

      The TSA is violating it’s own policy that states that filimng is NOT prohibited!

      Shut down the airline industry.

      Hit ‘em where it hurts. Yea it might hurt us a little more initially…but no pain no gain.

      Where are your cajones?

      Has the TSA removed them from your body?

      I saw a little skinny white girl grab her crotch at the Nazi Police State thugs in Greece while protesting.

      I’m starting to think that people like her has more testicular fortitude than some grown men in America!

      V for Victory Against the Nazi Police State!

      Now or NEVER!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA

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    • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 12:20pm

      I haven‘t flown anywhere since 02’ when a screener with a Napoleon complex hassled me at length. I‘ll eat the vacation time and drive to where I’m going.

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    • merzfan
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:46pm

      Nomercy63, you write: “Why any of you knuckleheads continue to fly is beyond me!!!”

      There is no doubt that we are being progressively (PUN INTENDED!) conditioned to hate and avoid flying because of the systematic physical and mental abuse being exercised by poorly educated, primitive TSA agents who revel in their ability to finally lord it over anybody they WANT! (Hitler used the same type of wannabe’s to intimidate the German population.)

      Totalitarian regimes must limit a population’s ability to do certain things.
      1. Travel freely
      2. Communicate freely
      3. Worship freely
      4. Assemble freely
      You will find in all repressive regimes (such as in China, Cuba, N. Korea, Zimbabwe, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, all Islamic and Fascist dictatorships, etc.) that only the trusted family members/party elite, etc. are allowed access to these things. This is how they finance their privileged, posh life-style and at the same time keep tabs on anybody who might object to their theft and oppression!

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    • Bill in Texas
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:03pm

      nomercy63 some people have no choice because of business deadlines and such. Flying is still faster than driving.

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    • dnnyshdy
      Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:56pm

      Why would you take a picture of someone being rude?

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    • cowdude
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:16am

      Half the flight attendents on a common AMERICAN carrier qualify as rude, at best! Southwest & JetBlue do it right.

      Cowdude
      http://conservativewatercooler.com

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