Tag Archive: tsa

A Very Merry (and Funny) TSA Christmas Carol

TSA Christmas Carol

NMA.tv is at it again. The Taiwanese website which reports the news via animation (ah remember JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s meltdown) has put together a little festive and funny Christmas carol that makes light of the TSA and their enhanced patdown procedures. Some of the laugh-worthy lyrics, that should be sang along to the…

How I Got Kicked Off a Plane Due to an “Unruly Character”

I arrived Tuesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport all eager and happy to be returning overseas to check out London and Glasgow thanks to the good people at VisitBritain. I arrived a tad bit early to my terminal due to over planning on my part. As luck would have it my cab from Brooklyn…

Guest Nomad: “My Voice is My Passport. Verify Me.”

Lauren Cannon is the editor in chief of the up-and-coming social media guide Ploked. She has written articles for The Huffington Post and Technorati, and is the creator of the edupunk initiative, Side Venturesome Project. You can follow her on Twitter @laurenthedark. “My voice is my passport. Verify me.” The above was a recurring line…

TSA-Holes: New Rules Make Air Travel Even More Annoying

A Christmas present that no traveler had asked for this year was delivered by the Transportation Security Administration just hours after a Nigerian nut-job named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to ignite a device and blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. The T.S.A. is now making it mandatory that…