tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7109375777057765337..comments2024-03-29T09:08:47.702-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: How Many People Has the TSA Gotten Killed? SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-11920600126177749292017-06-01T11:19:29.697-04:002017-06-01T11:19:29.697-04:00There is something else our government has mandate...There is something else our government has mandated that I think is killing people. The law that requires you to move over when a "emergency" vehicle is stopped on the side of the road. Since implementation I have seen numerous dangerous situations caused by this single law. Typically 18 wheelers suddenly moving into the left lane, sudden braking, even vehicle moving into the left lane for non-emergency vehicles. <br />I do understand the need for awareness when police and other emergency vehicles are on the side of the road but this is all useless showboating. Because it is NOT the drivers who see them and move over who put the emergency workers at risk. It is those drivers who are not paying attention or nod off to sleep and drive into the shoulder who are the problem. This law does not and can not prevent that problem. All that this law can do is force a 18 wheeler to suddenly drive into your automobile as you are passing them on the left. <br /><br />It would be interesting to see the stats on how many accidents this stupid law has caused.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45538684770605018942017-06-01T01:50:58.975-04:002017-06-01T01:50:58.975-04:00I am one of the "will never fly commercial ag...I am one of the "will never fly commercial again" crowd, since late 2001, not long after 9/11. I remember seeing military men with M-16s at several of the airports, stateside and in Hawaii (our last trip by air). I can't remember if TSA had already formed at that point, but we were already taking off our shoes and having our carry-on luggage opened and searched by people at every airport we went through. <br /><br />As you may recall, SiG, my wife and I made a trip from Montana to the west coast of Florida to see her 95 year old mother, then the east coast of Florida to see my 88 year old step-mother. Trip total by the time we got back home was just over 8100 miles. A lot of nasty traffic on the interstates (especially I-10, which we avoided on the return trip), but no close calls. We came a lot closer to getting hurt driving a few hundred miles next door into Idaho, where driving skills leave a lot to be desired (three near misses, with an approaching semi-driver drifting into our lane, a UPS truck pulling out right in front of us, and a local who spun out in front of us. But our trip cross-country and back didn't feel at all like a dangerous mode of travel, even in the cities and on I-75 in Florida.<br /><br />We aren't afraid of flying. I'm a helicopter pilot and was also a crew member on S-2 anti-sub aircraft in the Navy, and my wife was an airline stewardess when she was in her early twenties. It is the invasive and often arrogant behavior of TSA (mostly from what we have read and seen on the Internet) that keeps us from ever wanting to fly commercial again.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-70302430178405178622017-05-31T11:30:26.421-04:002017-05-31T11:30:26.421-04:00242 a month is 2904 a year, almost 10% of the appr...242 a month is 2904 a year, almost 10% of the approximately 30,000 vehicle deaths a year - that is a big change; I'd have to see lots of details about the study before going with that. <br />Note that as far as has been publicly discussed, the TSA has yet to stop a single terror attack, yet they keep increasing the weight of their screenings to stop things they can't - there is an old saying: "The best way to undermine your authority is to pass a law you can't enforce". They have prohibited things they find with any confidence, so people ignore their prohibitions and instead of making their prohibitions reasonable, they makes the searches more invasive and irritating without making them any more effective.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-3680365745697358192017-05-31T11:11:33.661-04:002017-05-31T11:11:33.661-04:00Ah yes! We're from the government and we'...Ah yes! We're from the government and we're here to help! From past experience, that help is 95% ineffective as well. Take it private if you want results. No more make work projects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com