Posts Tagged ‘security’

I’ve Had It With…

Well, well, well… it looks like we have another airline adopting movie plot security tactics. From JetBlue’s page on service animals (emphasis added):

Certain unusual emotional support animals (i.e. snakes, other reptiles, ferrets, rodents and spiders) pose unavoidable safety and/or public health concerns and will not be allowed to jet with us. The release of such an animal in the aircraft could result in a direct threat to the health or safety of customers and crewmembers.

No word on whether they’ve hired Mr. Jackson as a consultant.

Now That’s Social Engineering!

A federal agent strolls into a small Missouri town and helps clean up their meth problem, spearheading a string of arrests. The only problem is that he wasn’t really a federal agent, or any kind of law enforcement officer at all. Monica Davey for the New York Times writes:

Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood, from television mainly, to be the law. They said the agent, a man some had come to know as “Sergeant Bill,” boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, …