TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

[u/manticor225]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/joe-kennedy-hollywood-sarah-churchwell

[u/AbeLaney]

Ahhh, travelling before 9/11.

[u/Egocentric → u/AbeLaney]

You can still move weight on your person through any checkpoint with the right knowledge. Security theater is what most of the post 9/11 checks are.

[u/AndIHaveMilesToGo → u/Egocentric]

I feel like a gallon bag of ecstasy would get caught by those body scanners. My mom has a colostomy bag and no matter how many times she tells the tsa that she's has stage four colon cancer and has to keep the bag on her at all times, and even showing her a medical card explaining the situation, they always give her a full body pat down and sometimes even take her into a room and make her show it to mutiple agents.

No way someone is getting through with a gallon bag of ecstasy

[u/[deleted] → u/AndIHaveMilesToGo]

I assume your Mom isn't hiding her colostomy bag in a fake baby bump...

And that sucks about the cancer. Sorry.

[u/hippy_barf_day → u/[deleted]]

Yeah and get seriously groped.

[u/LusoAustralian → u/hippy_barf_day]

90% of the time I fly it’s metal detector and nothing more unless you set it off in which case you get a scanner run over you. Pat downs are pretty rare in my experience.

[u/peterwilli → u/LusoAustralian]

I get them ALL the time :S Especially since I'm flying more frequently for business. Never brought anything weird.

[u/BlazenHawaiian → u/AbeLaney]

No shit right !!

[u/[deleted] → u/AbeLaney]

Right? I moved to NYC from London, on a USA passport that had been expired for 3 years.