The US House of Representatives has a very important announcement, they would like the TSA to stop patting down Beyonce when she passes through airport security.
Rep. Mike Rogers, head of the House Homeland Security Transportation Subcommittee recently told the agency that Beyonce is “not going to blow a plane up.”
Rogers’ argument is simple:
“There are certain people that are just so well-known that you’ve just got to use your common sense.”
Rogers also said Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld should get a free pass on the pat downs.
TSA boss John Pistole took the comments one step further, noting that new TSA protocols are already focusing on passengers they know very little about. Pistole mentions that seniors over 75 can now keep their outerwear and shoes on during screenings. According to Pistole:
“If we have treated somebody unprofessionally, then shame on us because we have not done the job that we are expected to do.”
The TSA must be doing something right or air travelers have just stopped caring because complaints against the agency were down to 1,294 in March 2012, an improvement over the same time period in 2011 when 1,445 complains were filed.
Exactly how TSA officials are suppose to recognize famous people and give them a free pass is not known.
In the meantime it can’t be hard to spot Beyonce and her entourage which often includes her equally famous husband Jay-Z.
Do you think celebrities who are well known should be given a pat down pass by the TSA or go through the same process as everyone else?
The point is that not everyone gets patted down... if Beyonce comes rolling up with Jay Z and a million people are fawning over her appearance in the airport, I think its pretty safe to say that she doesn't need to be patted down.
Special treatment is not okay, but common sense should be present. If Beyonce was in front of me in line at the airport security, I would feel like my time was being wasted if they actually patted her down.
give me a ****in break! EVERYONE should go through the same procedure smh This is for safety precautions not financial gain so this 'free pass' for celebrities is not cool
give me a ****in break! EVERYONE should go through the same procedure smh This is for safety precautions not financial gain so this 'free pass' for celebrities is not cool
I'd like to believe that they'd WANT to pat down celebrities so they can tell their friends that they touched a celebrity, but yeah.
at all the girls complaining.