Confrontation With TSA Agent Leaves Grandpa's Ashes On Floor

[AnCap Dave]

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INDIANAPOLIS -- A man's attempt to bring the ashes of his grandfather home to Indianapolis ended with an angry scene in a Florida airport, with the ashes spilled on the terminal floor.

John Gross, a resident of Indianapolis' south side, was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather -- Mario Mark Marcaletti, a Sicilian immigrant who worked for the Penn Central Railroad in central Indiana -- in a tightly sealed jar marked "Human Remains."

Gross said he didn't think he'd have a problem, until he ran into a TSA agent at the Orlando airport.

"They opened up my bag, and I told them, 'Please, be careful. These are my grandpa's ashes,'" Gross told RTV6's Norman Cox. "She picked up the jar. She opened it up.

"I was told later on that she had no right to even open it, that they could have used other devices, like an X-ray machine. So she opened it up. She used her finger and was sifting through it. And then she accidentally spilled it."

Gross says about a quarter to a third of the contents spilled on the floor, leaving him frantically trying to gather up as much as he could while anxious passengers waited behind him.

"She didn't apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn't pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me."

TSA rules say a crematory container in carry-on baggage must pass through the X-ray machine at the security checkpoint.

But the agency's own website says human remains are to be opened under, "no circumstances."

"I want an apology," said Gross. "I want an apology from TSA. I want an apology from the lady who opened the jar and laughed at me. I want them to help me understand where they get off treating people like this."

Just when you think the TSA couldn't possibly go any lower, they get themselves a massive drill and dig to the Earth's core.

She actually laughed at this poor guy? What a miserable fucking bitch.

[Ibrahim90]

srsly, this is just disrespectful: the poor fellow can't even be left to rest and his family grieve in peace, but must bite the floor of a TSA cunt's airport security floor, and exacerbate the pain of his relations.

and laughing too? must the TSA people be so inhuman that they now laugh at the dead being thrown round like a babe baboon in the hands of its killer? you know, while vengeance is not a good thing, I just hope that bitch has someone laugh at the remains of her relations in her face. See how she feels about it.