Airport security is a necessary annoyance in air travel (though there is plenty of debate about how much of what the security officials do is necessary), and it can be a stressful, tedious way to begin a vacation or business trip.
With that in mind, Cindi Martin, director at Glacier Park International Airport, decided the Transportation Security Administration instructional video at the airport was a little, well, boring. She turned to local favorites The Singing Sons of Beaches for some inspiration and pizzazz.
The result is a new video, with rhymes, music and information:
National media outlet MSNBC has picked up on the story, and they’ve featured the band on their Overhead Bin travel blog.
“We took the TSA video home. And, oh my gosh, it is the most boring sort of government video we’re all used to seeing,” said Steve Riddle, who performs with Nick Terhaar and Greg Devlin as the Singing Sons of Beaches, in the MSNBC article.
I’m all for making travel more fun; I usually get a kick out of airline employees who don’t take themselves so seriously (like flight attendants who deviate a little from the security scripts on flight with lines like, “In the event our flight becomes a cruise, your floatation devices…” or “Please remain from smoking in the plane, in the terminal or ever.”). Hopefully this video helps ease some stress for travelers, or at least gets them to chuckle a bit.
The article also says the music video plays on continuous loop along with the original TSA video. I’m betting more than a few local airport security employees go home with those lyrics stuck in their heads.
What do you think about the video?