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Getting intimate with the TSA screeners

ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
edited November 2010 in A Moving Train
Man, if you haven't had any action in a while, just take a flight somewhere and TSA will be glad to help you out. :lol:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Opt-Out-of-a-Body-Scan-Then-nytimes-3016411705.html?x=0

And I realize this guy is batshit crazy, but he does make some valid points...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqV2Rmkqaw
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  • MaxGoldenrodMaxGoldenrod Posts: 1,341
    Full body scanners don't bother me. Personally I think that the TSA should use explosive trace detection systems. Scanners will work to see everything up close, but the ETD systems are less intrusive (if you are concerned what the agents will see with the scanners). Considering the recent news out of Dubai and Amsterdam, along with the Christmas day plot in Detroit, I say do whatever it takes to keep me safe and to keep from falling out of the sky at 32000 feet without a parachute!
    "Then the Spirit of God hovered over the water, and God said, Let there be music, and there was Pearl Jam."

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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    MaxGoldenrod wrote:
    Full body scanners don't bother me. Personally I think that the TSA should use explosive trace detection systems. Scanners will work to see everything up close, but the ETD systems are less intrusive (if you are concerned what the agents will see with the scanners). Considering the recent news out of Dubai and Amsterdam, along with the Christmas day plot in Detroit, I say do whatever it takes to keep me safe and to keep from falling out of the sky at 32000 feet without a parachute!
    Yeah, I don't really care of a screener sees me naked...
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    keeponrockin wrote:
    MaxGoldenrod wrote:
    Full body scanners don't bother me. Personally I think that the TSA should use explosive trace detection systems. Scanners will work to see everything up close, but the ETD systems are less intrusive (if you are concerned what the agents will see with the scanners). Considering the recent news out of Dubai and Amsterdam, along with the Christmas day plot in Detroit, I say do whatever it takes to keep me safe and to keep from falling out of the sky at 32000 feet without a parachute!
    Yeah, I don't really care of a screener sees me naked...
    you are putting a lot of faith in every single one of these employees. a few exceptions and people are going to have some pretty terrible experiences in these screening lines.



    they are trading a tiny bit of security for absolute humiliation.
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    Dosent matter if you care or not it's a violation of rights. And with every successful or not successful terror plot our rights will be violated even more. I'm looking forward to the required hand in my ass soon. I'll bring the lube.
    I'll be back
  • Boxes&BooksBoxes&Books USA Posts: 2,672
    OrangeSunshine wrote:
    Dosent matter if you care or not it's a violation of rights. And with every successful or not successful terror plot our rights will be violated even more. I'm looking forward to the required hand in my ass soon. I'll bring the lube.


    :shock:
    oh shit!! What if your allergic to the lube? Never mind .........ouch! :lol::lol::lol:
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."- Ben Franklin
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    There is a website that suggests if everyone opts out of the full body scanners, the system won't be able to handle the overload of people supposed to get pat-down screenings.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • TriumphantAngelTriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    there's no way I will ever voluntarily comply to being searched by one of these machines.
  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    I don't think I have a problem so much with the scanners, it's the increasing reports of TSA agents feeling people's "junk" for those that opt out. I really don't want some dumbshit TSA meathead with his hands all over my wife's breasts and between her legs. Even worse, I think I'd be thrown in jail if they ever did that to my kids. It seems that there are more and more reports of this happening if you elect to opt out.
  • VINNY GOOMBAVINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,818
    Just came back from JFK, and didn't see one of these things anywhere. I'm glad I didn't, because I would have opted out, but still hated a full pat-down-- but I'd rather that than being blasted with whatever amount /type of radiation these things give off.
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Shawshank wrote:
    I don't think I have a problem so much with the scanners, it's the increasing reports of TSA agents feeling people's "junk" for those that opt out. I really don't want some dumbshit TSA meathead with his hands all over my wife's breasts and between her legs. Even worse, I think I'd be thrown in jail if they ever did that to my kids. It seems that there are more and more reports of this happening if you elect to opt out.

    Yeah that's all pretty creepy. I think at the very least it should be ensured that the screener is the same gender as the person they are patting down. A man should not be touching women and children that way.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Searches are gender specific to the person.
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    I wish the big airlines would all fold and be replaced with a vast network of smaller air taxies and we wouldn't have to put up with all the BS that we do now.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    i'd rather drive than fly anymore.
    81 is now off the air

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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    unsung wrote:
    Searches are gender specific to the person.

    I think they should be, and the TSA website says this, but I've read accounts of this not being the case. I know that if I fly (and it is much less likely than in previous years), I will bring a printed out version of what it says on the TSA site, but I have to tell you, my last trip on Amtrak was pretty stress free, if a little slower. If its under 1000 miles, we'll probably drive to wherever it is. There really isn't much good about flying anymore.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
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