TSA agent tries to build his own Best Buy

And they wonder why many of us are afraid of allowing DHS agents anywhere near our valuable goods, such as the brilliant idea to allow them to detain a laptop without probable cause:

When the USPS and local police tracked him down and raided his place, they found they found 66 cameras, 31 laptops, jewelry, camera lenses, GPS devices and more. So yeah, how does a TSA screener systematically walk out of the airport with more gadgets than Best Buy--hell, with some gear you can't even buy there--without a single agent ever noticing? I guess if you ever check anything actually valuable, you might want avoid Newark

If the TSA agent had been smart, he would have opened up a few of the goodies, stuffed them full of ecstasy and seized them under civil asset forfeiture proceedings. Along the way, he could have taken them out of the evidence room, and called it a day. Granted, anyone stupid enough to steal a camera that costs more than most cars on the market today, and then sell it on eBay probably would never think that far ahead.