TSA to deploy more floppy-ear dogs because they're less scary than pointy-ears - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.latimes.com/resizer/nehtOF9Yctzv6zsegTh3-zQwHaQ=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c241dae/turbine/la-1545870760-2y7h6jng39-snap-image In its effort to make the airport security screening process faster, the Transportation Security Administration is employing new high-tech baggage scanners, facial-recognition cameras and “automated lanes” to eliminate passenger gridlock. But TSA Administrator David Pekoske said the agency is also making at least one new change to reduce traveler stress: deploying more floppy-ear dogs, rather than pointy-ear dogs, to sniff out explosives in public areas. During a recent tour of Washington Dulles International Airport, Pekoske told the Washington Examiner that his agency believes floppy-ear dogs are less intimidating to travelers than dogs with pointy ears. “We find the passenger acceptance of floppy-ear dogs is just better,” he said. “It presents just a little bit less of a concern. Doesn’t scare children.” TSA to deploy more floppy

Here at the TSA we value how you feel: we want you to be comfortable as our dogs muzzle through and slobber over your wallet and personal belongings, we want you to feel secure as we frisk you and your children by lowly paid agents with little barrier of entry and we want you to most of all feel respected as a citizen of a first world country as we run you through a highly sophisticated 4 hour security delay because your shoes had a sliver of metal in them you didn't know about.

The real crime: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/112976/7db2ead9-e9b5-42fd-a024-4c92a1af30d1/Screenshot_8.png

thank u for making me realize, it is totally unacceptable that there is not highly skilled professionals feeling me up, this does not make for satisfyingly pre flight entertainment.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113148/b87e13ea-0579-4671-8954-f0a6817bbb27/20181229_140339.jpg My girlfriend got a floppy eared dog in September and he's the cutest thing ever. Here I accidentally kicked him awake in the morning since he was sleeping by my foot. That look

That guy in the picture has the "oh no, its all over" look I wonder what happened next

Its a good idea, but I bet the number of dumb people who try to pet the dog will increase, probably leading to some sort of incident with the TSA

The sadness in that guys face. He just wants to pet the dog.

I love the TSA dogs, they're cute as hell AND they slice the time going through security in half. If they've got the dog you don't have to take off your shoes or take anything out of your bags. I heard that they have to occasionally send someone through the line who's got something the dog will pick up, since the dog thinks it's a game and will get discouraged if it doesn't win once in a while.

Pointy-ear dogs are cute too. This is just floppy-earist workplace discrimination. Smh

Man i was totally against the arbitrary installment of a rediculous "Security" service that's egregiously invasive, insanely costly and yet has yet to prevent any known crimes in the 15 years of it's existence, but man, now they've won me over.

German Shepards are some of the loveliest dogs ever and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

Boston Terriers are better, don't attempt to refute my point

This seems rather pointless

This dog can still decide to chew your junk up because it knows it gets treats for claiming there's a problem. Any dog the federal pigs working for the TSA has is a danger to you. Do not trust it, and do not trust the TSA.

they have no reason to use attack dogs to sniff out contraband, and they're not dumb enough to train dogs to seek out false positives when it's really easy to just not reinforce that behavior the problem with tsa has to do with politics and fearmongering leading to overreaching privacy violation and wasted money, not those damn dirty pig cops trying to kill people for fun on their 10:30 flight to dallas

If the Nazis had put more dogs in Stahlhelms I might've come around.

The nazis really liked dogs, specifically because of their "loyalty and obedience" apparently.

Tbh, the dogs you can't pet are the best boys. They're trained to work every day to keep people safe, guide dogs especially.

The thing is, I remember reading that these dogs undergo a special kind of training in that while their harness is on they are "on the job" and need to do the serious following orders stuff but once the harness is off they can act like an ordinary doggo. I won't debate you 'cus them's fightin' words!

You're forgetting one https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/09/12/TELEMMGLPICT000140187358_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqybo4PPQCSxTzekpqZkjTjapkgpqUDGSWkFC6IDJbjrI.jpeg?imwidth=450

Full time work, paid in treats and petting

I bet you're the guy that gets tased trying to fight the cops when they break up a party.

yawmwen? is that you?

that's a negative, i don't think cops are immune to molotovs

This isn't true at all. Bomb dogs and drugs dogs are not trained attack dogs. They're trained to detect on specific things. A dog trained to find heroin is not going to find a bomb. A dog trained to find a bomb isn't going to find a cadaver. A dog trained to find a cadaver isn't going to take down a fleeing suspect. These dogs are specifically trained, not one size fits all. Some dogs can be trained to do a few things. Now some dogs are more temperamental than other dogs, and some dogs are naturally good at sniffing things out. A pointy-ear German Shepherd or Belgian Malinois make really good sniffers but in a busy airport environment, may be more dangerous than a floppy ear Golden Retriever which also makes good sniffers. But that's matter of temperament and comes down to an individual dog basis. A good sniffer German Shepherd could also be extremely friendly and mellow. Or it could be extremely skiddish around people and not a good candidate for an airport. Are they all trained killers eagerly awaiting the order to chew your jugular out? No. Absolutely not. Source: my pops trains dogs for government agencies and militaries. Currently working bomb dogs in Iraq.

Gaaah all this is going to do is make me want to pet and snuggle them even more. Dogs are such sweet angels that I want to pet every single one. Curse you TSA, not letting us pet such good boys.

lmao the TSA let me on a plane with someone elses boarding pass, and two non government issued ID's a few weeks ago. The security theater that is the TSA is such a joke.

I think it was pretty clear that Iamgoofball was comparing himself to yawmwen, who I have no doubt actually said some batshit crazy thing like "cops are immune to molotovs"

What @Geel said. Yawmwen went off about how molotovs are totally "non-lethal" in his last(now deleted, I think) posts, and that throwing them at cops are okay. Because, you know, the guy said I was yawmwen.