So... if the TSA sees evidence of a crime, they call the police... but isn't that going to open a whole can of evidence worms related to probable cause? The excuse has always been that you don't have to be searched, you can not try to fly, or lose your flight and the cost of the ticket. (Though, will they let you leave a checkpoint without calling the police?) But, in reality it isn't usually so easy to avoid flying sometimes.
The real issue here is not that they shouldn't call the police if they see evidence of a crime, its that it isn't their job to be looking for evidence of a crime to begin with. Their job is to determine if you pose a threat to the plane. Looking though your receipts has NOTHING to do with being a threat to the plane. No one ever hijacked a plane with a reciept.
Paper cuts!
Paper cuts!
Wow . . . so when I flew to Indonesia with an entire framepack of binders and documents as a carry-on I had the equivalent of the U.S. Armory? Cool.
No. They'd just decide you were going to use the tin foil to make a deadly weapon and hijack the plane.LOL. What is a tin foil hat? Would that make them suspect me of being some kind of robot...receiving and sending secret messages, implimenting mind control on TSA agents, zeroing in on listening devices I have imbedded in the tin foil? Or might it have some kind of long distance, radio controlled, static detonating device? Geezes...I better stop talking this way on the Internet! Someone from the TSA might believe me and suspect me of such a tin foil hat, and come arrest me for unpatriotic activities.:rofl1:
No. They'd just decide you were going to use the tin foil to make a deadly weapon and hijack the plane.
Edit: I should note though Dober, that in the somewhat unlikely case that you are actually hauled off by the TSA you would probably want a lawyer that, um, actually makes court appearences. Unless you want to build a power line or merge two large corporations, I'm probably not your best choice.[/QUOTE]
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Actually, I might need to merge two power lines from my tin foil hat. Then I'll think about making a single, small scale corporation.:lol-sign:
A tin foil hat is a piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil or similar material. Alternatively it may be a conventional hat lined with foil. One may wear the hat in the belief that it acts to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading; or attempt to limit the transmission of voices directly into the brain.
The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.