Posted on 02/20/2018 2:11:36 PM PST by Swordmaker
Security personnel operating X-ray machines at airports and other transport hubs have a hugely responsible job and need high levels of concentration as they carefully analyze the contents of each item passing through.
And while most will see nothing particularly outstanding during a typical shift, there will be times when an object causes the operator to sit up and take notice. An object like … well … a human.
This is what appeared to happen at Dongguan Railway Station in southern China last weekend. As bags and other items passed through the X-ray machine, the operator suddenly noticed the unmistakeable shape of a person on the monitor, the BBC reported.
The woman at the center of the incident had first placed her suitcase on the conveyor belt before walking through the scanner carrying her handbag. Security insisted she put her handbag on the conveyor belt, too, but apparently, keen to keep hold of it, she hopped onto the belt and disappeared into the machine. Clutching her bag.
Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie, the woman can be seen in the X-ray image as she trundles along on the conveyor belt.
China’s state-run People’s Daily news outlet obtained a security video taken at the machine. It appears to show the moment a security officer told the woman put her handbag on the belt, and then cuts to footage of her emerging from the machine. The security officer can be seen laughing as she comes out.
The odd incident occurred during the Lunar New Year travel rush last weekend.
It’s not clear if she was carrying something special inside her handbag, or if she was simply curious about what the inside of an X-ray machine looks like, though admittedly this seems unlikely. There’s also a chance that she mistook the instructions of the security officer, though again, it’s hard to tell.
Some reports have suggested she may have had a large amount of cash inside the bag and so didn’t want to be separated from it even for a brief moment. Many Chinese who work far from their home cities are known to take some of their earnings back with them on holiday visits.
Now, you yourself surely don’t need telling, but since the story went viral, staff at Dongguan train station have reportedly been advising passengers that it’s really not a good idea to take a ride on an X-ray machine as the radiation it emits is unlikely to do you any good.
Perhaps she couldn’t afford a medical diagnosis X-ray?
The good news is her bag is safe. The bad news is she has cancer.
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About as funny as the woman who was texting on her cellphone and fell into a mall fountain....only attempt to sue the mall for the fountain being in her way....
Not this again
Nice Bones...
I wouldn’t do that but I know what she means. Because of my pacemaker I have to get hand searched at the airport and my bag ends up waaaaaaaaaay over there away from me and security does not look after it.
I did a FR search and it didn’t come up. . . sometimes I wonder about the search facility on FR.
She looks like an alien. But what is that blue thing, and why does somebody need that on a flight?
Reminds me of when my brother swallowed a bunch of coins from his piggybank. Although he had just visited the doctor the day before, my parents took him down to the clinic again.
The doctor had him x-rayed but said “I don’t see any change in the kid”.
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I know what she is up to, I can see right through her.
Free MRI haha
Would Laz?
The picture in the article is obviously not a picture of the woman holding her handbag.
I've never jumped into the machine though.
Its a Dutch Oven. Everybody needs a spare Dutch Oven in their luggage!
I bet she got the “special” pat down. Anyone who climbs up on the xray conveyor has something to hide. Maybe a bomb or a weapon.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm sure Laz would appreciate the quality the woman has of safe guarding her possessions.
They should offer it as an option.
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