I titled this “Airport Security” for a certain reason nothing bad at all but its pretty funny I think… I just finished a 4 day trip this morning, it sure was a long trip!
One of my first overnights I had on this trip was to ATL (Atlanta, Georgia), which was one leg out and a 19 hour layover. I thought to myself that’s not so bad… Well it wasn’t, it was a great flight! We left for ATL 1 hour late cause of a late arriving flight that had 12 passengers connecting to our flight and we couldn’t leave them behind. So they boarded we did our thing and next thing you know we are landing in ATL at 1am. Everyone deplanes the aircraft and we as the crew start walking to the train station to catch it to the main terminal so we can catch our van to the hotel. After 15 min on the train (it usually doesn’t take that long) we finally arrive at the main terminal, we walk towards the BIG escalators and as we are approaching the top of the escalators we see so many people waiting for their loved ones. We step off and look back and notice a big police officer sitting at his work station in front of everyone taking a nap! Here is a big police officer at the ATL airport in uniform suppose to be keeping an “eye” on things and he is sleeping! He was literally falling out of his chair sleeping! LOL! One of our pilots tells the TSA agent standing closer to us that the police officer is sleeping, the TSA agent says “not my job” we are like what?! Seriously?! We started laughing and just walked away. As we walked to the hotel van I started thinking… He shouldn’t be sleeping! What if something happened and he couldn’t help because he was to busy sleeping? I kept thinking of “what if” situations… I am sure a lot of people that witness that thought the same thing. I wanted to take a picture of this police officer almost falling out of his chair while he was sleeping and posting it on facebook and titling it… do you feel safe at the ATL airport?
