The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[Neil]

Nine year old boy gets on flight to Las Vegas from Minneapolis without ticket; TSA blames government shutdown.

That's some serious gumption, kid.

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

[Jacob]

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

The TSA blames the government shutdown.

[Admiral Yi]

That makes no sense.

[Viking]

Nine year old boy gets on flight to Las Vegas from Minneapolis without ticket; TSA blames government shutdown.

That's some serious gumption, kid.

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

I once traveled on the wrong day
the computer system was down, and I didn't check my ticket date and flew on the wrong day. This was before 9/11

[Jacob]

That makes no sense.

You're right - and on reading the original article it turns out that's not the case. The TSA person mentioned the government shutdown, but didn't say it was the cause, and later the TSA clarified. So... wrong thread. Mea culpa.

Original article here: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/10/06/boy-boards-plane-at-minn-airport-without-ticket/

[Ideologue]

So, technically he just relocated the bag.

In layman's terms he relocated the bag.  In technical terms, he converted it.

[Neil]

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

The TSA blames the government shutdown.

That doesn't make any sense.  That's a failure by the airline, not the TSA.

[jimmy olsen]

Nine year old boy gets on flight to Las Vegas from Minneapolis without ticket; TSA blames government shutdown.

That's some serious gumption, kid.

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

I once traveled on the wrong day
the computer system was down, and I didn't check my ticket date and flew on the wrong day. This was before 9/11

And you didn't notice until you got there!? 

[11B4V]

Anarchy Reigns Amid Shutdown. 

Shutdown Turns DC Into Giant Skatepark
(Newser) – At least one group is benefiting from the federal shutdown: skaters. The capital's stone benches and strong railings make for perfect skating obstacles, but are usually off-limits. But with buildings and plazas empty in Washington, DC, no one is around to police them, and the skaters are moving in, reports the Wall Street Journal. The paper observed as pros and amateurs alike spent Thursday and Friday last week grinding and flipping all over Freedom Plaza. A whole crew of pros come from Canada to film a video. A National Park Service officer warns one guy, but the crowds stick around. However, at least one local skater says he doesn't want to see the cops disappear altogether—being chased is part of the experience. "That thrill is always good," he says.

[CountDeMoney]

We are supposed to be sad about the closing of OSHA, EPA and FDA?

It's like you looked at China and all its food safety scandals, rampant environmental degradation, fake drugs scandals, and and general lack of consumer safety and thought "great, let's make it like that!"

But see, over there it's Communism.  Here, it's Freedom.

[garbon]

We are supposed to be sad about the closing of OSHA, EPA and FDA?

It's like you looked at China and all its food safety scandals, rampant environmental degradation, fake drugs scandals, and and general lack of consumer safety and thought "great, let's make it like that!"

But see, over there it's Communism.  Here, it's Freedom.

Aren't we already importing those things?

[sbr]

We import Chinese smog?

[Jacob]

Aren't we already importing those things?

You are missing out on like 99% of them due to the robust nature of your regulatory schemes. No diseased pork carcasses floating in by the hundreds to major metropolises, no baby deaths from adulterated milk powder, no villages with 10x to 100x cancer rates due to untracked pollution, no schools collapsing killing the students inside due to substandard building materials used, no chickens dead from bird-flu sold to restaurants and served, no cheap pork died and injected with chemicals so it can be sold as beef, no fake pills with real labels being sold knowingly or not by clinics and pharmacies resulting in illnesses going untreated.

... it's not a pretty thing right now in China with that stuff. Of course, most things are fine and safe enough, but you're still playing a bit of a lottery with worse odds than in a place with effective regulatory schemes.

[Viking]

Nine year old boy gets on flight to Las Vegas from Minneapolis without ticket; TSA blames government shutdown.

That's some serious gumption, kid.

How did he get on the plane without a boarding pass?

I once traveled on the wrong day
the computer system was down, and I didn't check my ticket date and flew on the wrong day. This was before 9/11

And you didn't notice until you got there!? 

I didn't notice till I got to my layover and tried to check in with the computer there. It was embarrassing.

[jimmy olsen]

Yikes, so what happened? You got a hotel there for a night?