Airport Screeners May Get X-Ray Vision

NewsDay ^ | 06/25/03 | LESLIE MILLER

[bedolido]

Susan Hallowell, the director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, allows her body to be X-rayed by the 'backscatter' machine at the Transportation Security Administration in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., Wednesday. The machine bounces X-rays off the skin, left, producing a black-and-white image. To the eye, she is dressed in a skirt and blazer in dark, businesslike colors. On the monitor she is naked, except for a gun and a bomb that she hid under her outfit. The government is considering using the technology at airport security checkpoints because the magnetometers now in use cannot detect plastic weapons or substances used in explosives. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why not just make all the passengers travel naked and be done with it? I have to travel ocassionally for my job and it involves flying. If they try to make people go through these so that the leering apes of the Federal Aviation Transportation And Security Service (FATASS) can oogle at everyone, it will certainly mean the death of the aviation industry.

[crazykatz]

This is just TOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!

I hate this idea and I think it is just too NAZI-ESQUE.

[bedolido]

Why not just make all the passengers travel naked and be done with it?

Have you actually thought about that...? the fat, hair and smell would be discusting.

[LizardQueen]

The day they start using these is the day I stop flying.

Even now some airports I've been through (Cincinnati and Atlanta)have these big walk-through things with white plastic panels on each side. I've repeatedly asked security if they can see through my clothes and they refuse to answer me. I think I have a right to know if I'm getting strip searched!!!
Does anyone know what those machines do?

LQ

[Frank_Discussion]

Ah, it's OK, and besides, we could have a little fun with it. I think I'll start a business selling underwear with metallic letters on the rear. Slogans like:

"Kiss Me"
"Eat Me"
"Exit Only"

Look for those opportunities, y'know?

[Lady Eileen]

I won't be flying...if they pull this stunt.

[eno_]

If God had meant us to fly naked, we'd have been born that way, with wings. Naked wings. Or something.

[crazykatz]

I agree with you. Recently, A goonish/lesbo agent for the gestapo at the Jacksonville, Fl. airport took especially great interest recently on frisking my really cute and shapely adult daughter.

Leering weirdos all over the US will vie for these peeping tom jobs.

[Lady Eileen]

The government responsibility is to protect us...not scan us.

[crazykatz]

Hereis another good one... "DROP DEAD, you peeping tom creep!!"

[bedolido]

I guess I'd have to stop putting a sock in my jeans.

[crazykatz]

HOw about....THIS IS NOT A GUN!!

[Frank_Discussion]

Only for XXL.

[crazykatz]

See posts 6 and 11!!

[Atlas Sneezed]

A few months back, they released a photo of a guy that clearly showed the detailed features of his "package." With a woman, they realized that it doesn't reveal much more than what you would see "at the beach."

[Frank_Discussion]

"Nothing to See Here"
"No Sale"

Corporate Endorsements could be lucrative:

"James Coney Island"

[crazykatz]

"THIS HERE THING IS A GUN!!"

[The Red Zone]

Now suppose this machine could be modified so that flesh didn't show on the image, but anything else would.

[krb]

my really cute and shapely adult daughter.

If she's single and conservative, then you have to post pictures :-)