The “Break it Down” Blog

It was reported that a Newark Airport TSA agent, Pythias Brown, was caught selling $200,000 worth of stolen personal items from people’s luggage on eBay (seller profile). These weren’t confiscated items that Brown was seller on eBay, these were items like digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices and more that he stole out of bags behind closed doors in the secured areas of the airport. More specifically the report stated: “Among the items seized were 66 cameras, 31 laptop computers, 20 cell phones, 17 sets of electronic games, 13 pieces of jewelry, 12 GPS devices, 11 MP3 players, eight camera lenses, six video cameras and two DVD players, the affidavit said.”

What is so damn maddening about this all is not what Brown did, it was the fact that he was so cappable of doing it. Either security cameras weren’t catching him or the TSA/DHS is so focused on keeping citizens out of secured areas that they don’t account for the case where one of the employees might be a complete douche and decide he wants to pilpher some bags.

The most obnoxious part of all this is that those folks that spent thousands on that equipment will never see it again. It’s possible you could try and contact the buyers from his profile to ID your particular device and pray to christ that the buyer will sell it back to you, so you are effectively buying your things twice because of this guy.

I can’t imagine how many home movies and vacation photos this guy has erased from folk’s memory cards and computers that they will never get back… that really sucks.

Thanks Slashdot!