"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Blueskies wrote:

Is the airline now responsible for replacing the bag and contents?

I hope the victim sues the TSA and gets huge amounts of publicity.

Probably won't get very far, since she's the one who mentioned "bomb" to
security people. Even though the TSA actions were clearly vindictive,
rather than addressing any real security risk.

Or perhaps the people on the flight with the bag that the TSA obviously
believed unsafe enough to destroy should be taking the TSA losers to
court...or at least the court of public opinion.

Now *that* seems like a good tack. It's absurd that the TSA rules were not
followed closely enough to avoid "endangering" the flight in the first
place. How blowing the bag up after the fact addresses the TSA's own
failure is beyond me.

The whole thing is stupid, but I would be surprised if there are any
repurcussions to the TSA. They have a blank check to screw whomever they
want. Welcome to the post-9/11 "Land of the Used to be Free".

Pete