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From janitors to managers, Miami airport employees are watching you
airport vigilantes wrote: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...fla-news-miami From janitors to managers, Miami airport employees are watching you By Ken Kaye South Florida Sun-Sentinel September 6, 2006 Passengers at Miami International Airport soon will be scrutinized by many sets of eyes, beyond federal security officers and police. MIA is to become the first airport in the nation where aviation employees, from janitors to senior-level managers, will receive behavior recognition training to spot suspicious people or potential terrorists. "Every employee who works around airport goes to the bathroom and goes to lunch, and wherever they are, they're going to be trained to recognize behavior that is suspicious," airport spokesman Greg Chin said Tuesday. Initially, about 1,600 Miami-Dade Aviation Department employees will receive four hours of training, starting Thursday. The first class will include 50 to 75 upper level administrators. Eventually, the course will be offered to 35,000 airport employees, including those who work for airlines, skycap services and various vendors, Chin said. "The aim is to have as many eyes and ears in the airport as possible," he said. About 88,000 passengers come and go from Miami International each day. Miami-Dade County police officers, and specifically those under the airport's incident containment team, will be the course instructors. Those officers already have been trained by New Age Security Solutions of Washington, D.C., Chin said. Rafi Ron, president of that firm, is the former security director for Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, and pioneered training employees to recognize potentially dangerous behavior. "This is not profiling," said airport spokesman Marc Henderson. "You're looking for patterns that would be out of the ordinary." The airport is undertaking the training program without prompting from the Transportation Security Administration, said Lauren Stover, MIA's Assistant Aviation Director of Security and Communications. "It's independent of the TSA," she said. "It was an initiative that the police and I wanted to move forward on as an additional layer of security." Great, as if they weren't rude enough already, now they're going to be sitting in the stalls watching us with their hand held parascope. Release the well-intensioned dragons! -ROME |
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From janitors to managers, Miami airport employees are watching you
"Every employee who works around airport goes to the bathroom and goes to lunch, and wherever they are, they're going to be trained to recognize behavior that is suspicious," airport spokesman Greg Chin said Tuesday. Great, as if they weren't rude enough already, now they're going to be sitting in the stalls watching us with their hand held parascope. Release the well-intensioned dragons! -ROME I know you were speaking sarcastically. However, this is a true story from THIRTY YEARS AGO: I went to Washington, D.C. It was a vacation, believe it or not. (not my first choice, but I was there) At one point, we stopped by a local shopping mall in Washington, D.C. This mall looked from the outside and inside like any one of thousands of urban shopping malls that you will find all over the United States. A couple of large anchor stores, lots of little stores, the multiplex movie theater, food court, etc. While I was at the mall, I got the urge to go to the bathroom, REALLY BAD. Unfortunately, I didn't just have to ****, this was going to be a sit-down type maneuver. So I ran around the mall following signs to the restroom, trying hard to hold it until I finally found the Mens room. I was quite relieved to spot the mens room door, as I really needed to take a dump by that point REALLY BADLY. Anyway, I burst into the mens room, dashed to the nearest stall, and then stopped, puzzled. There was no door on the stall. In fact, there was no door on any stall. Then I happened to glance up and on the opposite wall, facing the stalls, was a series of windows, each one centered in the doorway of a stall with no door on it. Through one of the windows, I could see a young man in an adjacent room, staring down into one of the stalls. Amazingly, I didn't take a dump that day, and I couldn't take a dump at all until I got home a couple days later. I wish I'd made this up. But it is absolutely true. I'm talking about something that happened in 1980, plus or minus a year or two. (don't remember the exact year, but it was most of thirty years ago) -Dave |
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From janitors to managers, Miami airport employees are watching you
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:11:23 -0400, "Mike T." wrote:
I went to Washington, D.C. It was a vacation, believe it or not. (not my first choice, but I was there) At one point, we stopped by a local shopping mall in Washington, D.C. This mall looked from the outside and inside like any one of thousands of urban shopping malls that you will find all over the United States. A couple of large anchor stores, lots of little stores, the multiplex movie theater, food court, etc. While I was at the mall, I got the urge to go to the bathroom, REALLY BAD. Unfortunately, I didn't just have to ****, this was going to be a sit-down type maneuver. So I ran around the mall following signs to the restroom, trying hard to hold it until I finally found the Mens room. I was quite relieved to spot the mens room door, as I really needed to take a dump by that point REALLY BADLY. Anyway, I burst into the mens room, dashed to the nearest stall, and then stopped, puzzled. There was no door on the stall. In fact, there was no door on any stall. Then I happened to glance up and on the opposite wall, facing the stalls, was a series of windows, each one centered in the doorway of a stall with no door on it. Through one of the windows, I could see a young man in an adjacent room, staring down into one of the stalls. Amazingly, I didn't take a dump that day, and I couldn't take a dump at all until I got home a couple days later. I wish I'd made this up. But it is absolutely true. I'm talking about something that happened in 1980, plus or minus a year or two. (don't remember the exact year, but it was most of thirty years ago) -Dave It was part of a short-lived cost saving scheme to ensure patrons only take 2 bits of paper. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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