TSA Baggage Inspection Notices Should Be Stamped with Name, Date, Time, and Location

Due to the extensive problems the TSA has had with its employees damaging property and stealing from passengers' luggage, the TSA should take a simple step to single out the worst TSA employees and discourage property damage and theft. All the TSA needs to do is eliminate anonymous inspections by making it mandatory that every baggage inspection notice that goes into an inspected bag gets stamped with the name (or employee number) of the TSA employee who conducted the search and the time, date, and location of that search. Each failure to include a stamped baggage inspection notice would result in a reprimand.

Under this simple system, the TSA could easily identify TSA employees who are stealing the most or causing the most damage. Why has the TSA not already implemented this amazingly simple solution? (Hint, there are at least five good answers to this question.)

TSA Freak Wants Jill Filipovic to Get Her Freak On

"GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL" Note Left by TSA
Photo: Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic of New York got a surprise in her luggage after passing thorough Newark's Liberty International Airport. While unpacking, she found a handwritten note on an official TSA notice reading, "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL." This note was presumably left in her suitcase by a TSA employee who was rummaging through her luggage and found a sex toy.

The TSA apologized to Jill Filipovic and claims they have removed--but not fired--the employee who left the inappropriate note. When the TSA employees are busy playing with people's extremely personal items and leaving flirty handwritten notes, what sort of dangerous things could they be missing during these periods of distraction?