re: Breaking: President Biden to require quarantine for international travel, masks on planes

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The attendant at the gate just announced that effective today you can get a $35k fine for not wearing a mask bc its now a federal mandate. No way that's legit right?

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People are just making shite up these days but... The FAA/TSA absolutely has the right to impose Civil Penalties for violations of certain Regulations related to air travel. For instance, and a lot of people don't know this, when TSA catches you with a firearm in your carry on they don't normally go after you criminally. They just slam you with a big civil fine. And people gladly pay it because otherwise the government will look into if they can charge you criminally somehow. I know this because a good friend left a .22 pistol from the deer camp in his duffle bag and then threw some clothes on top. He obviously didn't know it was in there. When he got popped at the X-Ray I think he would have given them his first born just to get out of that airport. So giving them the pistol and $3,500 (I can't remember the exact amount, I think that number is right) sounded really, really good to him.