Bureaucracy



Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List

I guess this would be cheaper than getting a divorce. According to the Daily Mail, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her…


TSA Worker Gets Two Years for Planting Logic Bomb

Wired magazine reports that a 46-year-old TSA data analyst has been sentenced to two years in prison for loading "logic bomb" software on the system at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center. The CSOC system is responsible for screening TSA workers…



City Baffled by Hundreds of Mysterious Stop Signs

If you installed 700 unauthorized stop signs in Cranston, Rhode Island, would you please call the mayor? Judges have been dismissing tickets written for running stop signs in Cranston because the city apparently doesn't know which signs are official and…


Mule Drivers Must Have Biometric ID, Says TSA

The Transportation Security Administration, taking a break from its critical shoe-removal and water-bottle-disposal duties, has told the mule-skinners at Hugh Moore Park that they must comply with strict post-9/11 security measures by applying for high-tech biometric Transportation Worker Identification Credentials….