gonna fly, wear a kilt

[NoBill Lurker]

Sooo, anyone got the brass to tuck a big pair of plastic "truck nutz" under their kilt? Line the inner edge with a mouse trap or three?

Bwahahahaha!!! 

[Merlin the Elder]

TSA, watch your ...ummm...what's the current replacement phrase?

[Sir Ironhead]

Thousands Standing Around
Totally Stupid Administration

[Noble Dreg]

In Part because of complaints about radiation safety concerns pilots are now exempt from full body scans and intrusive search...Flight attendents are still subject to both.  Apparently it's not about employee health but more about who screeners would rather see naked.

On a realated airline security note, pilots can carry guns but not flight attendants.  So just what are they searching the pilots for???  Why would you scan the pilots if they can legally carry a gun???

Two years ago a US Airways pilot shot out the windscreen while on approach at 8,000 ft.  The bullet pierced the aircraft skin.  Apparently the windsreen refused to be patted down leaving the pilot no choice.  Our security is run by the 3 Stooges!   

[Sir Ironhead]

It can't be run by the Stooges.  They would be doing a better job than this.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

exactly and i'm sorry there was nothing random about the scanners when i came home from Peru.
i think they made 90 percent of my team go thru the scanners thats not random

[Merlin the Elder]

What was the name of that movie with Meg Ryan sitting there explaining how she could fake the Big O...??... Now, wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if the people they took behind the curtain for the pat down would do that!

[iain robb]

It can't be run by the Stooges.  They would be doing a better job than this.

At the very least, the screening would be a lot more amusing. Or not, depending on how feel about the Three Stooges.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?

This whole pat down thing is evasive. I have nothing to hide. A body scan should be good enough. I like the El-Al procedures by asking passengers specific questions as they are looked into the eyes.

[SirRichardBear]

At least a couple woman have testified that they were required to show their Prostetic Breasts during the "pat down" 

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Captain Blackadder: So in the name of security, sir, everyone who enters the room has to have his bottom fondled by this drooling pervert?
Captain Darling: I'm only doing my job, Blackadder.
Captain Blackadder: Well, how lucky you are then that your job is also your hobby.

[groomporter]

What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?

My wife has such a card for her hip replacement. Even 4/5 years ago which was the last time we flew someplace she automatically got a pat-down for setting off the metal detector.

[DonaCatalina]

The whole body radiation dose is a concern as well. Experiments were done under government sanction in the 1940's and 1950's and determined that no level of whole body exposure was safe. So the TSA would rather molest innocent citizens instead of investing of chemical blowers or bomb-sniffing dogs?
Italy has stopped using these scanners because in real world tests they have proven ineffective.
Write your congressman and protest this violation of Fourth Amendment.

[Merlin the Elder]

I think the body scan is plenty invasive enough, but then I'm in disagreement with the whole thing to start with.  I'm not going to live afraid of everything.

I won't fly any more, not out of fear of terrorists, but fear of a government (and I am NOT talking about a specific administration, I'm talking about the government PERIOD) that is using fear tactics to further their agenda, for example, to enlarge their military and defense spending out of control. The last time I flew, the people that were "protecting me," stole from me, so I don't buy into that bit about it being for my own good.  Maybe this should be on the rant thread, but I am really, REALLY fed up with this garbage!

[Noble Dreg]

What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?

This whole pat down thing is evasive. I have nothing to hide. A body scan should be good enough. I like the El-Al procedures by asking passengers specific questions as they are looked into the eyes.

A gentleman with bladder cancer was on the news this evening...He warned the agent he had an external bladder but they "squeezed" him anyway.  The bladder burst soaking him in urine.  He had no choice but to board the plane "wet".

[irish]

What was the name of that movie with Meg Ryan sitting there explaining how she could fake the Big O...??... Now, wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if the people they took behind the curtain for the pat down would do that!

When Harry met Sally......

Ohh Mr TSA Person...OOHHHHHHHHHH yeaaa... ....lmao  sorry.....