With the current state of the TSA.

While reading all these threads on the TSA abuse of power and other pesky things going on at our airports an old memory has surfaced from when i was a child. the year was 1998 and i was 6 years old. flying home to ny from my grandparents. they gave me a gift to give to my mother and jokingly said "dont lose it or we'll be mad" me being a child left it in the overhead bin on the airplane when i got off

when i remembered about it after we got my luggage and were about to walk out the door i ran right back to the plane without telling my parents what happened. ran right through security with my pokemon backpack and went to the plane to get my package. a couple people might have yelled stop but i dont really recall but nothing more came of it. i just got scolded by my mother a bit.

Now if a child had done that today what do you suppose would have happened? I dont think im a pessimist but for some reason im pretty sure one of the military personnel that are kept around the checkpoints would shoot first and ask questions later. funny how somthing i did 15 years ago that ended up in getting scolded could end up with me getting shot had it happened today dont you think?