Arts & Entertainment SFO Bomb-Sniffer Dog Wins TSA 'Cutest Canine' Contest Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.
SF News California Could Ban TSA Line-Skipping Service ‘Clear’ From CA Airports Under New Bill The pricey, $189-a-year service called Clear that lets people cruise through airport TSA lines could be banned in California, under a proposed bill from state lawmakers who think its unfair to people can’t pay the extra 200 bucks.
SF News Masks Will Remain Required on Planes and Public Transit Until April 18, TSA Says The federal Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday morning that Americans will need to keep wearing masks through at least April 18 on public transit, on planes, and in transit hubs.
SF News Local Startups Take On Hellacious TSA Wait Times SFist readers know how much this site enjoys ragging on the litany of stupid, overly-entitled, pointless, and public-safety-compromising apps that power our contemporary local economy. So it behooves SFist to occasionally highlight useful,
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Still Griping About Groping At SFO, Says TSA Is Worse Than ISIS British misery-dweller Morrissey is still complaining loudly and publicly about a pat-down by a TSA agent at San Francisco International Airport in July that he characterized as a sexual assault. And now he
SF News SFO Security Screeners Busted For Cocaine Smuggling Ring Three security screeners at SFO have been indicted on fraud and drug smuggling charges, the Justice Department said on Friday. The three were employees of Covenant Aviation Security, a private company that's contracted
SF News What's Going On Here, Oakland Airport Passenger? A photo posted by TSA (@tsa) on Apr 20, 2015 at 6:27pm PDT I've made no secret of my love for the Transportation Security Administration's Instagram account in the past, as I
SF News FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all
SF News Son-In-Law Of High-Ranking Hong Kong Politician Won't Face Charges For Allegedly Impersonating TSA Agent At SFO When high-powered finance guy Eric Slighton was arrested at SFO after allegedly impersonating a TSA agent and luring women into "private screenings," officials hoped the women he pulled aside would come forward so
SF News Private-Equity Exec Busted At SFO After Allegedly Impersonating TSA Agent, Luring Women To Screening Room [Updated] A high-powered San Francisco finance manager was arrested — but appears not to be facing serious charges — Tuesday after allegedly pretending to be a TSA officer and leading at least two female travelers to
SF News It's Just A Drill: BART Conducting Security Exercises Friday If you see cops, TSA agents, and other law enforcement officers scrambling during your morning commute Friday, don't worry, it's (probably) not a disaster. According to BART spokesperson Luna Salaver, on Friday morning,
SF News 62-Year-Old Woman Arrested At SFO For Desperately Wanting To Retire In Hawaii A retired woman was arrested late last month at San Francisco International Airport after she tried for a third time to sneak on to a plane bound for Hawaii. Although she didn't get
SF News TSA Removing Some Whole Body Scanners From Bay Area Airports [Updated] Amid concerns from airline passengers of allowing TSA workers to see what they look like naked, the agency has finally relented and will remove the controversial full-body scanner machines. The government had previously
SF News New Jersey Woman Attempts To Check Land Mines On Flight To SFO A woman flying from Newark to San Francisco International Airport this morning apparently thought it would be an acceptable idea to stow some Claymore land mines packed with shrapnel in her checked luggage.
SF News Marijuana Found In Peanut Butter At Oakland Aiport Oakland Airport TSA security screeners wasted both time and money busting a guy for carrying a stash of marijuana inside a jar of Skippy peanut butter on Sunday. "Nico Melendez, a TSA spokesman,
SF News TSA Finds Weed in Rapper's Luggage, Lets Him Keep It Anyway What's up with TSA inspectors these days? First they're leaving inappropriate notes for ladies who travel with (ahem) electronic accessories and now Freddie Gibbs, a rapper from Gary, Indiana, received the following note
SF News SFO-Based Pilot Suspended From Anti-Terror Program After Posting YouTube Videos Criticizing Security An unnamed pilot based at SFO and residing in Sacramento is catching heat from some camera-phone videos he posted to YouTube showing lax security at the airport. The pilot was part of the
misc News Websites Re-Post Fake News Story About An S.F. Man Orgasming During a TSA Pat-Down If only because it sounds like something that really might happen here, and not unlike a scene from the Folsom Street Fair, a fake news item went around yesterday about a sexually dysfunctional
misc Sonoma County Native Coined the "Bikini Traveler" Hey, did you hear about that "Bikini Traveler" gal who was all over the news last week? Well, we somehow missed it until last night. In an effort to avoid the dreaded pat-down
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Don’t Like The TSA' by Jonathan Mann Ever since John Tyner bravely asked a TSA agent not to sexually assault him -- the 31-year-old Oceanside software engineer now faces prosecution and $11,000 in civil penalties -- Jonathan Mann came
SF News Just Getting Belligerently Drunk On a Plane Means You're a Terrorist Now A flight into SFO was diverted to Colorado Springs on Saturday because a guy got drunk and ornery at the back of the plane and was demanding more booze. Apparently, this situation was
SF News TSA Employees Will Soon Be Able To See Your Naughty Bits What's the latest weapon in the war on terror? Why, it's a full-body scanner that will soon be the mainstay of airport security checkpoints. The TSA is reviewing several pieces of technology for
SF News So, Just How Shitty Was Your Air Travel Experience This Weekend? The big news this post-Xmas weekend was, of course, that little punk who boarded the plane in Nigeria and tried to blow up that Northwest/Delta flight landing in Detroit on Friday. He
SF News Airport Pre-Screening Service Goes Belly Up A company that provides a service we never even heard of called the Clear Registered Traveler Program has abruptly gone out of business, KCBS reports. Clear operated special security lanes at 20 airports
