That’s just plane ditzy!
A geographically-challenged airport security agent nearly turned away a woman with a valid Washington, DC identification card — because she had no clue where the District was, or that it’s just as legit as a state.
Ashley Brandt was traveling back from the Grand Canyon with her boyfriend a couple weeks ago, when a Transportation Security Administration officer in Phoenix took a look at her driver’s license — marked “District of Columbia” — and threatened not to take it, The Washington Post reported.
“I don’t know if we can accept these. Do you have a US passport?” the agent said, according to Brandt .
Brandt didn’t have one, so the officer called over a manager, making the poor traveler extremely nervous.
“I started thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to get home. Am I going to get home?’ ” Brandt said.
A supervisor eventually OK’d her license but it was obvious the lame-brained agent needs a lesson in US geography, Brandt said.
“DC is obviously not a state, but I didn’t ever imagine it would be a problem — I mean, the whole population of DC has to use these,” Brandt said.
“She didn’t seem to know that it was basically the same as a state ID,” she added.
Brandt eventually made it through security and flew home safely, but not before her outraged boyfriend tweeted about the hassle.
“Holy. [Expletive]. TSA @ PHX asked for gf’s passport because her valid DC license deemed invalid b/c ‘DC not a state,’ ” he tweeted.
A TSA spokeswoman would say only, “A valid Washington, DC, driver’s license is an acceptable form of identification at all TSA checkpoints.”
Brandt did not file a complaint.