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![[0234] The T Word](/comics/2011-01-06-[0234]-The-t-word.png "[0234] The T Word")
The current story arc started with this strip: Dinner.
- TSA officer: OW!! BLOODY BEAST! What the hell is this squirrel doing in your luggage?!
- Dominic: Waiting… until the right time to strike! That’s what terror squirrels do!
- TSA officer: Code Blue!
- Justin: NO! Don’t say the t wor– AAAAH!!
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never mess with a security officer who just got bitten by an illeagal squerrel
This puts me off visiting the US. Crazy TSA.
And that, friends, is how you get grounded for ALL ETERNITY.
Damn, that is harsh
the tsa’s motto: tase first…ask questions later (if the one tased is still breathing)
Poor Hazel ;-; did she never see Sid’s dad, ever again? ;-;
Things you should never say in an American airport:
“Terror”
“Bomb”
“Hijacking”
“Underwear”
Anything said in any language other than English
Anyone caught breaking these rules may or will be:
Tazed, Beaten, Threatened, given multiple injections of unknown fluids, THEN searched.
@ gamerjoel135:
lol soo true
@ Benny:
I refuse to fly in my own country because of the TSA.
Terror Squirrels are the worst kind of Squirrel.
there’s a case where an brazilian executive was boarding an american flight in USA, carring his laptop adapted with a volumous long-life batery in a red case. after puting it in the compartment, the stewardess came and asked every passager to describe their in-flight bag. The executive gave his usual answer: “It looks like a (public) phone”.
Stewardess: “Looks like a bomb?”
She rushed to talk with the pilot, who called the security and grounded the executive, who had thousands of points flying for that company. Sheesh.
Great strip, BTW
look out, the only thing worse than a terror squirrels are PMS squirrels
Becuse the T squirrels u can negotiate with. :3
You can never be too vigilant when it comes to the evil that squirrels can perpetrate. Nightly I am out on patrols keeping back the evil hordes of Nazi Squirrels.
It’s true! The Aliens told me so!
As the Marvel superhero Squirrel Girl can testify, only a fool would underestimate a terror squirrel. *sagely nods my head*
This is funny but points out a very real problem. The TSA has way too much power and not enough oversight. All because people got scared. All the “safety” precautions they use today would not have stopped 9-11 because they were already here and flew out of smaller unguarded Airports like Portland Me. so it literally useless. They want us all scared because we are easier to control that way.
Uh…. every single person got searched to even get to the specific gate for my trans-continent flight.
In Amsterdam. :u
The US isn’t the only paranoid airport.
Given the number of harmful invasive exotic species that have been brought into the U.S. accidentally and on purpose, this strip is almost too real. And as a nation, the U.S. is doing a lousy job of preventing new invasive exotics from getting in. I heard an interesting talk about the problem, during which it was pointed out that all the Customs and TSA funding being focused on terrorism means even less money and focus for invasive-exotic entry prevention. And there are plenty of other species around the world that could cause havoc if they became established here.
The Terror Squirrel Strickes again! And i bet 300000$ the first thing that came to his mind was, OMG TERROR SQUIRRELS? Wait im smart Squirrel stands for somthing…..Selling Quantity Uranium Introvert Radioactive Real Estate Logo? No ummm Smelling Queens Under Iasor R- oh forget it ill just TAZE THE GUY!!!!
So…
Just how long will a squirrel expect to live in Guantanamo?
And WHY did they tase the DAD?
and this is why I don’t fly anymore… well this and the fact that the TSA has now basically given us only two options for searches; xrays or sexual molestation.
Wait, the guard is British?
@ gamerjoel135: Also, “knife”, “can opener”, “circuit”, “timer”….
@ Jarome: Because the dad brought the squirrel
lomda remind me from boondocks!
This is probably pretty tame compared to a lot of things that have happened in the states.
TSA is not only the problems but also racial profiling. Unlike the words from the people who have never been on airplane or mistaking muslims and sikhs (obvious difference). They think that all arabs and middle eastern are dark skinned. They don’t think about light skinned middle eastern people, fake passports and disguises.
People who support racial profiling and airport securities (like the one shown) should watch this comic and go to airport and research about middle east.
DONT TASE ME BRO!
also why did mustache guy get tased when he didn’t say the “T” word. thats messed up!
really, we’re still bringing up that kid from Florida. “Can’t we all just get along?” Nuts, this squirriely comic has got me quoting torture videos now.
Profiling would be handy here (note that I mean profiling as in observing the behaviour of the person and talking to them to see if they are getting nervous for an unusual reason, not racial profiling)
And the plot thicken… and tasered… and searched…
And is just me or the French couple were drawn in Tintin style?
I think we only saw 3 people in the French family. I assumed Dominic was Justin’s teenaged son.
That was wise of that guy. This probably isn’t a sign of things ending well.
And ‘Code Blue’ stands for ‘Squirrel with bomb’? ._.’
Things like that and the stupid searches are also the reason I don’t want to fly anywhere.
Also, the french and terror? They can’t even… you know…
*sigh* Sometimes it’s bad to be german.
For example: You can’t make a french related joke without it sounding like something it really should not sound like for legal reasons ^^”’
@ Bucc-i:
He got in the way to protect his son
Ouch… I’m sorry that the Dad got tazed, but I hope it will teach many lessons.
God bless his soul ;_;
I’m just wondering why it’s the father who got tazed
@ Gamesman:
Well, you’re right; but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless. It’s still a democracy for all its flaws. Don’t just complain; organize!
Waw, I see that american security officers are still serious with security. *snickers*
More seriously,though, how many more incidents like the one in this strip will be needed before there’s a law to moderate the use of those so-called non-lethal tasers ( the voltage can still kill and some cops are prone to abuse of their tasers). I know that the kid should have resist the urge of making such an absurd joke, still I don’t see the need of getting all violent without verifying first.This is almost to the level of paranoïa.
NEVER make a joke in customs, the agents have their sense of humour surgically removed. Talking of stupid customs officials in Sydney Kingsford Smith airport the customs officer, with my Australian passport in hand showing that Sydney was my place of birth (and of previous generations of my family I might add, right back to the criminals) had the nerve to ask me “What is your motive for visiting the country”. I’m Australian. I don’t NEED a motive to visit the country.
“Do you have family in the country”
I’M AUSTRALIAN. Of course I have family in the bloody country.
vi…si….ting fa….mi….ly he writes, which means that if all my family die in a tragic koala related incident I won’t be able to go to the funeral as there will be nobody left for me to visit.
I think we should balance up what our governments do FOR us as opposed to what they do TO us and ask ourselves, do we really need these louses?
Ah, the “wonderful” TSA, part of the Dept. of Smoke and Mirrors (the real name of Homeland Security). My brother’s future in-laws had a run-in with another faction of “DSM” a few years ago–US Border Patrol. They were entering Maine from New Brunswick (where they’re from) to come visit their daughter state-side. They had an orange on the dashboard.
Border Patrol agent confiscated the fruit ’cause you apparently can’t bring fruit over the border. Even in this case where said orange had a “SUNKIST FLORIDA USA” sticker on it. Oh no! Can’t let any of those pesky Floridian Oranges invade the USA!
If I was the dad, I would so disown that kid.Not only does he lack brains, he got him tasered.
I have had so many near misses with both Canadian and US in-security services these last few years that it has become a sick sad joke.
Florida oranges confiscated at the US/Canada border – check
Woman having to remove her spaghetti strap shoes with the soles the thickness of cardboard in a filthy inspection area – yup, designer shoes are more dangerous than any infections transmitted through the filth on the floors.
A school “friend” traveling separately having their car disassembled, nothing found and then having to find a local auto-shop willing to come by on a Sunday to reassemble the car – US Customs didn’t give a tinkers dam and supposedly some were watching and making joking comments during the whole process.
US Customs agent walking away with a passport and then going off shift.
US Customs sequestering some friends on vacation and “forgetting” to tell anyone that they were there. Cleaning staff found them still locked in that room 14 hours latter. No apologies or excuses made.
Here is the really sad thing – I used to travel to Eastern Europe when the wall was still up and never had any major hassles, though the occasional misunderstanding or document confusion that delayed thing for maybe all of 15-20 min max. and much more professional conduct by all concerned.
Begin Rant
Maybe the difference is due to an over abundance of Body armor and easy to use Weapons in hand giving these cowboys such a high level of condescension and disdain for normal people in general – add to that a level of fear, cowardice on the level of a Warner brothers cartoon with respect to their own safety (these people would never be firemen of paramedics) – well that and an IQ around room temperature (in Centigrade)
End Rant
My solution is to treat every encounter as if you are dealing with a five year old armed with a loaded gun playing policeman.
@ Benny: You have NO idea. If more people would stop letting them walk all over us it wouldn’t be so bad. Freedom for safety? Not a fair trade.
@ Draco Blair:
Because the TSA is required (and open about it) to take statements at face value on the job. Say what you will about their intellect, but this dad was a blame fool for expecting them to take it better.
Psst, code blue is a medical term, it generally refers to someone who is in cardiac arrest.
“Code Black” is the more typically used code for bomb threat/assault/ect.
*the more you know*
@ Someone & @ Lady: Color codes are building-specific. Theoretically, you could go into a hospital, yell “code blue” and expect to get attention for cardiac arrest; but you could equally as well go to the one right next to it, yell “code blue”, and get attention for a child with a cut.
I figure the dad got tased because the security officer is a lousy shot.
How much training does airport security get? Wel at the airport near me, the TSA officers go in and out in about 6 weeks. Thats is NOT a lot of time to be fully trained in handling security.
@ Lady:
Well, I don’t know about you…but having some jackass pump my heart full of electricity would certainly cause it a great deal of stress….also speaks to the character of the officer in this strip if that’s what it’s supposed to mean for that airport, then he tased him explicitly to cause harm and for no reason regarding security, just a ‘fuck you and your squirrel’.
@ thrudd:
A dual-line stunt kite (Premier Vertigo, no longer made!), COMPLETELY disassembled, down to removal of the sail, all fittings, and such, “just to make sure” the completely hollow fiberglass struts weren’t “packed with drugs.” And then they made me ship it home anyway! They lost some of the fittings, and put a couple small holes in the sail, and told me they “weren’t responsible for damages.” The holes were easily patched, but the fittings proved next to impossible to replace.
Thankfully, Premier Customer Service was VERY supportive, and actually sent me the VERY last two of that kite that they had in the warehouse. As I said, it was a discontinued model. The price? FREE. I buy most of my kites through them now. 😀 One of the two became a parts kite, and I made a new sail for the original. (It was my very first stunt kite, bought on my 16th birthday.) Premier kites are NOT CHEAP, and I’m just thankful the company was so supportive.
I rarely fly anymore because EVERY time I do, I get searched. I’m European, but have a Mediterranean complexion. One guy, the January after 9/11, got in HUGE trouble at the Vegas airport. While my things were being searched, he stated, “We’ll find what you’re hiding, you dirty Pakistani!” Keep in mind that we were still in sight and hearing of other passengers.
Well, the other guards, including the two female ones about to pull me to the side to strip search me, stopped DEAD in their tracks. I pulled myself up to full height, and stated, “Asshole, I’m probably whiter than YOU are.” (Even if I HAD been middle-eastern, you just don’t SAY what he said. EVER.) I went off on him, and they were a little too stunned to stop me. My stuff was hurriedly repacked, my flight held, and I was able to go home without any further complications. I’m pretty sure they were scared of a lawsuit.
I don’t think I’d have the guts to tear someone a new one again over that, but I had more audacity at that age. (Fresh out of my teens.)
That’s why it’s lucky if you just pretend that your english is bad and only communicate with one word sentences. Unless if they have a code for ppl who can’t talk “right”. XD
@ gaboris: Oh yeah forgot. Did he just say “Bloody”? Isn’t that a british thing? 😀