Seattle-Area Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents

lefty · 02-23-2011

Fed up with what he views as crappy treatment from the TSA, the owner of a restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has decided to put all TSA agents on his No-Eat List.

"We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren't allowed to come into our business," one employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott. "We have the right to refuse service to anyone."

She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave... Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment.

MannyIsGod · 02-23-2011

the TSA.

Drachen · 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by lefty

consumerist.com

Fed up with what he views as crappy treatment from the TSA, the owner of a restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has decided to put all TSA agents on his No-Eat List.

"We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren't allowed to come into our business," one employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott. "We have the right to refuse service to anyone."

She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave... Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment.

You People, What do you MEAN you people.

DisgruntledLionFan#54,927 · 02-23-2011

I'm sure this is going to make their next stroll through security a breeze.

Enjoy.

MannyIsGod · 02-23-2011

How would the TSA know?

spurs_fan_in_exile · 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927

I'm sure this is going to make their next stroll through security a breeze.

Enjoy.

I can see this escalating to the point that Homeland Security gets the restaurant declared a terrorist training facility. How precise of a strike can a Predator drone drop?

mrsmaalox · 02-23-2011

Are they protesting TSA agents doing their job at airports? Or are the agents ty tippers at restaurants?

hater · 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by MannyIsGod

How would the TSA know?

your IP has been logged. good luck in your next trip

MannyIsGod · 02-23-2011

My last trip I went through just fine. But I have been pulled out for secondary screening more than I should have been. I had like 3 trips in a row. This was all before they go really crazy on you now.

I always attributed it to the fact that I look Muslim as with my beard grown out. I've even been stopped at the border and had a full car search before when I have a beard. No beard and its like HAVE A NICE DAY. Full Beard and they pretty much want to know who my jihad is against.

lefty · 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927

I'm sure this is going to make their next stroll through security a breeze.

Enjoy.

lefty · 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by MannyIsGod

My last trip I went through just fine. But I have been pulled out for secondary screening more than I should have been. I had like 3 trips in a row. This was all before they go really crazy on you now.

I always attributed it to the fact that I look Muslim as with my beard grown out. I've even been stopped at the border and had a full car search before when I have a beard. No beard and its like HAVE A NICE DAY. Full Beard and they pretty much want to know who my jihad is against.

I'm sure the whole islamic terrorism thing has been created by Gillette and Edge.

They want to sell more shaving gels and razors

PuttPutt · 02-23-2011

I fly out of SEA-TAC most of the time & usually get the secondary search. The last 3 times that I've flown I haven't. Not sure what the restaraunt owner's problem is, but most of the TSA agents that I have encountered in Seattle have been either nice or okay to deal with, even when I requested the "pat down."