Airport Security Worker Fired for Rude Note to Passenger: "You ugly!"

[Stevicus]

Airport security worker fired after passing mean note to traveler: 'You ugly!'

The incident occurred in late July, reports WROC Channel 8, when Neal Strassner was going through a TSA checkpoint for a departing flight. That's when a female guard handed him a folded piece of cardboard. Strassner continued to walk toward his gate but the staffer yelled "You going to open the note?"

When he unfolded the sign, he saw it read "You ugly!!!" and heard the guard laughing uproariously.

A passenge at an airport in Rochester, New York, was stunned to receive a rude note from a security guard WROC Channel 8
Strassner was so befuddled by the incident that he filed a Freedom of Information Act request for security-camera footage. It took nearly a month for it to be processed, but the clip clearly shows the entire scene playing out.

This was rather weird. But I guess it's par for the course for the people who work the airport security checkpoints.

Misbehavior by airport security staff is not uncommon: In 2015, two TSA agents at Denver International Airport were fired for sexually assaulting male travelers: The pair would spot an attractive man in line for security screening and intentionally misidentify him as women. That would trigger the machine to register an anomaly in the groin area, giving one of the agents the opportunity to pat the man's crotch and buttocks.

And in 2017, Calgary International Airport security workers confiscated the batteries for an amputee's mobility scooter, requiring him to crawl for the entirety of his three-week vacation.

Some agents have even faced repercussions for weird notes before. In 2011, a TSA agent at Newark Airport was fired for placing a missive reading "Get your freak on, girl, Girl" into the suitcase of a woman traveling with a vibrator in her luggage.

And these are the people who are supposed to be protecting America's skies from hijackers and terrorists.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And to add insult to injury, the grammar was at the level of a toddler.

 

[columbus]

And to add insult to injury, the grammar was at the label of a toddler.

To add injury to insult, I'll make fun of your word label in that sentence.
Tom
ETA ~I'm just in a mood today. An unhappy camper, for reasons that are none of your business~

 

[PureX]

Airport security worker fired after passing mean note to traveler: 'You ugly!'

This was rather weird. But I guess it's par for the course for the people who work the airport security checkpoints.

And these are the people who are supposed to be protecting America's skies from hijackers and terrorists.

Real security won't work for $8 an hour. You pay an insulting wage, you get insulting people.

In the Detroit airport they stole my friend's watch.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

To add injury to insult, I'll make fun of your word label in that sentence.
Tom
ETA ~I'm just in a mood today. An unhappy camper, for reasons that are none of your business~

Must be. Typos happen. I'll remember you're one of "those people."

 

[Epic Beard Man]

Real security won't work for $8 an hour. You pay an insulting wage, you get insulting people.

In the Detroit airport they stole my friend's watch.

Pretty much this.

As the saying goes you get what you pay for.