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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTSA Worker Pepper-Sprays fellow screeners
By JOSH MARGOLIN
Last Updated: 3:15 AM, March 27, 2013
A bumbling TSA agent playing around with a pepper-spray container at Kennedy Airport fired the caustic liquid at five fellow screeners yesterday, sending all six to the hospital, a source told The Post.
The agent, Chris Yves Dabel, discovered the device at the Terminal 2 security checkpoint and tried to determine if it was real, a source told The Post.
He told Port Authority cops that he found the canister on the floor and thought it was a laser pointer.
They were playing around with it, said one Kennedy Airport official.
The screener sprayed five other TSA agents around him, sending all six to Jamaica Hospital and halting security checks at Kennedy for at least 15 minutes, police said.
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TSA Worker Pepper-Sprays fellow screeners (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2013
OP
What kind of security person doesn't know what a pepper spray container looks like?
justiceischeap
Mar 2013
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)1. Oy. What a maroon.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)2. The would-be passengers applauded and cheered
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)4. He is lucky he didn't find a gun
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)7. not as lucky as his co-workers. nt
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)5. What kind of security person doesn't know what a pepper spray container looks like?
Hell, I even know what one looks like and I've never seen one in person.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)6. A very young, uneducated and cheap one
It also helps if it's a guy.