Seattle Restaurant Refuses to Serve TSA Employees
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 1:29PM 
A restaurant near the Seattle-Tacoma International airport is officially fed up with the TSA--and the employees are letting their opinion be known: They've actually banned TSA employees from the premises.
KC McLawson, a server at the restaurant, told Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate/journalist, that she and her coworkers have been instructed to turn away any TSA worker who comes through the door.
"My boss flies quite a bit and he has an amazing ability to remember faces," she said. If he sees a TSA agent come in, we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave."
This may sound harsh, but consider all of TSA's recent missteps: Agents stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from passengers traveling through New York, harassed good-looking women, violated their own regulations and, all the while, failed to ensure our safety.
Reader Comments (1)
This action is ridiculous. It sounds like the restaurant owner is confusing the policy makers at the top of the TSA with the private citizens who happen to work for the TSA. They're not one and the same, and this owner seems to have failed to see the point.
First of all, the individual TSA agents are just doing their jobs. They have to do what the federal government tells them. Oh, they should just quit their jobs if they disagree with the instructions coming from the top, you say? Ok, let's just take a poll of all the Americans who have enough money at the moment to quit their jobs and stay fed, clothed, and sheltered for the next few months while they try to find another job in this recession. I bet you wouldn't find a single person who wanted to stay with their job security!!
Also, did the Seattle TSA agents steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from passengers in New York? Did they specifically harass you? Were all of the Seattle TSA agents personally responsible for every terrorist attack? No, but maybe some of them were, and that's the same as them all being bad people. So from now on I'm refusing service at MY business to all current and former restaurant owners. You restaurateurs are BAD people, and none of you deserve my service! After all, it's logical? A few bad food service workers get on my nerves so I refuse service to all of them who act as private citizens when they come into my store, right? Right. Ok. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to the third grade.