The current story arc started with this strip: Dinner.
- TSA officer: Where is that bloody critter!?
- TSA officer: HA!
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[0235] Hazel On The Run I
└ posted on Monday, 10 January 2011, by Novil
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exaggeration my foot. I had a bad experience with the TSA once because we were too slow taking off our shoes. when no one was behind us. though an elder TSA agent was very nice. The younger TSA agent was a jerk and quite frankly, he was fired from his job. TSA has some very nice people in it, not their fault they have to turn into wanna be cops.
Cloud+Larisa_Shipper wrote:
This.
-_- yaaaah REAL mature Shooting at my gandparents like that….Now YOU ask yourself who looks like the terrorist NOW shooting grandparents like that and trying to KILL a squirel like that.
Do the words ‘overkill’ mean anything to this guy?
Oh, life mantra. Right, I get it now.
@ ekimmak: “It’s just a comic, I should really just relax”?
@ tfeth282:
not by all that much though if reports are to be believed…
though they do go in more for molestation and theft than murder, it’s true…
@ Chargone:
i should have hit quote rather than reply for that one…
not sure why i said theft either… invasion of privacy and dubiously-legal detention, perhaps.
@ Charles Morissette:
I think the gun in the first panel is just something the artist made up; doesn’t quite look like a Thompson to me (and I have fired a semi-auto version. 🙂 )
@ Cloud+Larisa_Shipper:
…things are being blown out of proportion. It’s done for comidic effect.
I agree with you on this!
Gitmo reference found at 1st panel!
Oh, boy… That guy had better hope that his hero insurance holds… But it’s doubtful – I mean, ever since the little incident with James bond, the TSA there has been touchy… Laser wristwatches and pen grenades make for embarrassing stories.
The Transportation Security Administration…American tax dollars at work, folks.
…Excuse me? European squirrels and North American squirrels aren’t so drastically different that they would destry each others habitat. In a lot of cases, animals can do a lot of harm, yes, but not a squirrel to North America…more importantly, not a solitary squirrel, hence with no chance of breeding and spreading.@ Anne:
ZOMG
Celtia, this squirrel is pregnant, which we know because this strip is part of the backstory of her son. And an exotic squirrel species can do a LOT of harm to other squirrel species. If you don’t believe me, check out what the North American gray squirrel is doing to the red squirrel that is native to Great Britain. (Some idiots brought the gray squirrel over to Britain — the stupidity of alien species introduction goes both ways.) Fortunately, the Brits are willing and able to shoot the North American squirrels to try to save the declining population of British squirrels. But the British squirrels are still in serious jeopardy, and a new squirrel disease brought to England along with the gray squirrel is a huge reason why.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0502_030502_redsquirrels.html
…Did he just try to taser a squirrel?
Hazel is Sid’n it! She’ll be out of effective range soon! Go Hazel!
I’m fairly sure a tazer has enough electrical energy to kill a squirrel. But, oh well?
@ Garrick:
Oh yeah. Totally. He’s overdoing it.
Theoretically, the guy is doing the right thing (in the wrong way perhaps?) because the squirrel could be infected with a slow-acting disease or could just be the “carrier” of a virus lethal only to humans.
Anyway, TSA sucks…
Vats, why do you imply that an escaping squirrel would only be a problem only if it were infected with a virus “lethal only to humans”? There is growing evidence that when Eastern gray squirrels from North America were imported (by idiots) to England, those squirrels brought with them a squirrel disease that they survive easily but is often fatal to the native red squirrels of Great Britain. So the squirrels of Great Britain are fast disappearing. We humans, in spite of our delusions to the contrary, are NOT the only species on earth that matters.
@ Anne:
Humans do a questionable job caring about themselves. Take the price of incredibly crappy-for-you food. Now look at the price of a decent meal. Compare.
Ah, our brave government workers working hard at overreacting as usual 😀
Couldn’t one blast with the tazer, like, KILL the squirrel?!
@ Anne:
The point here it the overreaction of TSA. The family was NOT willingly trying to smuggle in an exotic animal.
Odd thing here is that France did not do a search BEFORE the luggage was placed on the airplane.
This is still a very good comic. We just need to learn to laugh at ourselves.
@ tfeth282:
no the TSA is that bad []-;
HE FIRED A TAZOR INTO A CROWD OF PEOPLE TO TRY AND HIT A RUNNING TARGET THE SIZE OF A WATER BOTTLE??? This guy should get fired
@ SK:
EVERY TSA agent should be fired. And half of them shot.
I like how the other guy has a bag on his head like a terrorist.
I don’t think words can communicate how amazingly, mind-bogglingly stupid he is in the third panel. Never mind firing his weapon through a crowd of civilians (which should see him answering reckless endangerment charges at a minimum if there’s any justice), he’s trying to hit a moving squirrel (which is difficult even with a cylinder-bore shotgun) with a taser (which is completely impossible, the probes spread out too much to ever get both of them on a squirrel-sized target at any range).