Airport screening
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I've been lucky so far... I fly a few times a year, on average, and I've never been pulled aside for "secondary screening." Guess I just don't look scary enough :)
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Must be dressed wrong. Juan Williams wouldn't have thought anything of you unless you were. :laugh:
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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I agree. I was actually just trying to be funny but Harry seems to want to respond to all of my comments like I was serious. I flew into Norfolk for work last month and I was quite surprised by the groping I got from the TSA dude. I almost asked him if he wanted me to turn my head and cough but then I though better of it! :)
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body scanner or "TSA agents will use the front of their hands in searches, and the new process will include an agent running his or her hand up the inside of a passenger's leg." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39889732/ns/travel-news/[^] I don't which options I should choose.
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body scanner or "TSA agents will use the front of their hands in searches, and the new process will include an agent running his or her hand up the inside of a passenger's leg." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39889732/ns/travel-news/[^] I don't which options I should choose.
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Annoyances... I don't really care about the privacy aspects of the body scanners, but from what I hear, the airports around me have installed the X-ray ones instead of the safer millimeter-wave ones, so I was going to opt for a pat-down if I was selected... So now my choices are risking skin cancer or being groped by some TSA agent (And contrary to the other branch of this thread, they always do same-sex pat-downs)...
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
So now my choices are risking skin cancer or being groped by some TSA agent
This is a false dichotomy, there is the option not to fly and the option for the government not to implement intrusive tests. You know, just to piss on any logical fallacies. :-) I liked your PSA BTW, you got my conceptual 5-vote.
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body scanner or "TSA agents will use the front of their hands in searches, and the new process will include an agent running his or her hand up the inside of a passenger's leg." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39889732/ns/travel-news/[^] I don't which options I should choose.
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Annoyances... I don't really care about the privacy aspects of the body scanners, but from what I hear, the airports around me have installed the X-ray ones instead of the safer millimeter-wave ones, so I was going to opt for a pat-down if I was selected... So now my choices are risking skin cancer or being groped by some TSA agent (And contrary to the other branch of this thread, they always do same-sex pat-downs)...
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)What a good little sheep you are. Nice and docile, just the way they like them. Owned and subservient. If they commanded a mandatory vaccine on your ass after the checkpoint you would take it.
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body scanner or "TSA agents will use the front of their hands in searches, and the new process will include an agent running his or her hand up the inside of a passenger's leg." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39889732/ns/travel-news/[^] I don't which options I should choose.
I feel sorry for the scanner person, there are some sights that should be kept private.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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But if the body scanners are like the UK, the images are checked by a person in another room. So you'll never know if its a hot bird or a fat bald bloke
As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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But if the body scanners are like the UK, the images are checked by a person in another room. So you'll never know if its a hot bird or a fat bald bloke
As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
They can't be very useful scanners then :-)
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But if the body scanners are like the UK, the images are checked by a person in another room. So you'll never know if its a hot bird or a fat bald bloke
As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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What a good little sheep you are. Nice and docile, just the way they like them. Owned and subservient. If they commanded a mandatory vaccine on your ass after the checkpoint you would take it.
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And what exactly would you do, if you had enough money to travel, and actually had friends or family whose basement you didn't live in? Come on, let's hear it... Would you bring a weapon and go postal in the airport? Would you drive instead, even if your destination was across the Atlantic? Or wait... I know, you're too good to travel, right? I predict a badly-planned speech about how "real Americans" have everything they need in their hometown.
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And what exactly would you do, if you had enough money to travel, and actually had friends or family whose basement you didn't live in? Come on, let's hear it... Would you bring a weapon and go postal in the airport? Would you drive instead, even if your destination was across the Atlantic? Or wait... I know, you're too good to travel, right? I predict a badly-planned speech about how "real Americans" have everything they need in their hometown.
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
I predict a badly-planned speech about how "real Americans" have everything they need in their hometown in their Mom's home.
FTFY
Rhys "With no power comes no responsibility"
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
I predict a badly-planned speech about how "real Americans" have everything they need in their hometown in their Mom's home.
FTFY
Rhys "With no power comes no responsibility"
goblinTech wrote:
their Mom's home.
I really don't want to think about him and his Mom's home. ;P :laugh:
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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goblinTech wrote:
their Mom's home.
I really don't want to think about him and his Mom's home. ;P :laugh:
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Why not... They only share the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. On second thought.... :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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I feel sorry for the scanner person, there are some sights that should be kept private.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Agreed. Although the new scanners would probably make my life easier. Since 9/11, I haven't taken a flight where I haven't been pulled aside for secondary screening in order to validate that there are no hidden compartments or things in my prosthetic leg. I've had to drop my pants for some pretty darn good looking security. The scary part is that out of the many flights I have taken, 90% of the screeners were the ugly, bald, grumpy guy. Thankfully, when in Europe, they always had a side office for this purpose. In a couple American airports, they had stupid cubicle dividers with gaps between. The whole friggin' airport could see it there.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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if the agent is a she... and ubber hot... will have to accept the old ways of using the hands to touch my leg :D
I want to die like my grandfather- asleep, not like the passengers in his car, screaming!
Gonzoox wrote:
if the agent is a she... and ubber hot...
At an airport security check point...really?
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Agreed. Although the new scanners would probably make my life easier. Since 9/11, I haven't taken a flight where I haven't been pulled aside for secondary screening in order to validate that there are no hidden compartments or things in my prosthetic leg. I've had to drop my pants for some pretty darn good looking security. The scary part is that out of the many flights I have taken, 90% of the screeners were the ugly, bald, grumpy guy. Thankfully, when in Europe, they always had a side office for this purpose. In a couple American airports, they had stupid cubicle dividers with gaps between. The whole friggin' airport could see it there.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
PogoboyKramer wrote:
Since 9/11, I haven't taken a flight where I haven't been pulled aside for secondary screening
I got to there and thought, this guy must look like a problem.
PogoboyKramer wrote:
my prosthetic leg
Then I thought, poor bastard that is going to be a PITA. A few years ago in Prague, as we walked through the hand luggage scanner the operator cracked up laughing, a few of us peered at the screen to see 2 dildos outlined by the scanner. Feel for the woman who had to then pick up her bag.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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And what exactly would you do, if you had enough money to travel, and actually had friends or family whose basement you didn't live in? Come on, let's hear it... Would you bring a weapon and go postal in the airport? Would you drive instead, even if your destination was across the Atlantic? Or wait... I know, you're too good to travel, right? I predict a badly-planned speech about how "real Americans" have everything they need in their hometown.
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
And what exactly would you do
I wouldn't fly, but if I truly needed to fly, I would refuse the full body scan and hope for a cute female as my dominatrix.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
And what exactly would you do
I wouldn't fly, but if I truly needed to fly, I would refuse the full body scan and hope for a cute female as my dominatrix.
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TSA rules specify that pat-downs are always done by the SAME gender. So put your piece away, kiddo.
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