The TSA Taken Down a Notch

[targus]

Most people carrying large sums are smart enough to avoid being arrested?

I've been retired since 1996. When I joined the SPD in 1965 $4700 would have been a year's pay for many people. <G> I think I was grossing $530/month, something like that. Many people were paid once or twice a month and the first stop after work was to a bank to cash the check.

Credit cards were only invent in 1955 and didn't become common until the '60s. My first real job in 1959 - with the telephone company - paid cash, not a check. It would have not been rare for a person to have a month's pay in cash. Most US government jobs - the armed forces - paid monthly. Direct deposit and credit cards changed all of that.

Granted - but if you were still working today as an active duty police officer - would someone carrying about a month's pay in cash be some sort of red flag to you?

 

[Salty]

One word ANALOGY!

Lets try another analogy - seat belts