Sure, the TSA may fail to apprehend weapons 95 percent of the time–but they did manage to tweet this pic of $75,000 in cash stowed in a law-abiding traveler’s suitcase, with the appearance and location of the suitcase conveniently included.
TSA Public Affairs spokesperson Lisa Farbstein tweeted this picture on Tuesday:
If you had $75,000, is this how you’d transport it? Just asking! TSA @ #RIC spotted this traveler’s preferred method. pic.twitter.com/lriNbivmsT
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) June 30, 2015
“RIC” stands for the Richmond, Virginia airport.
The Twitter backlash was swift and brutal, with users demanding to know how she justifies broadcasting the sensitive contents of some poor traveler’s suitcase. Some asked if the TSA had seized or apprehended the cash for unlawful activity.
Farbstein eventually admitted that this mode of transportation was, in fact, entirely lawful, and she just posted the pic for LOLZ:
@Frimp13 TSA didn’t seize/confiscate/take it. It alarmed the x-ray machine as an unknown and we spotted it. It’s just a curiosity.
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) June 30, 2015
.@TSAmedia_LisaF now that the public knows the exact design, color, and size of this bag and also its contents, how is this traveler safer?
— KStreetHipster (@KStreetHipster) June 30, 2015
@TSAmedia_LisaF I’m glad you’re posting private photos when no laws were broken.
— Josh (@ArmyJew) June 30, 2015
@tsamedia_lisaf So … taxpayers are paying you to tweet photos of their luggage?
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 30, 2015
.@nickineily @TSAmedia_LisaF how is this TSA’s business?
— Alan Gura (@alangura) June 30, 2015
