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Shock Bracelets for Airline Travel: Want some torture with your peanuts?
Washington Times ^ | 12/03/2009 | Washington Times

Posted on 12/03/2009 3:56:53 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...

A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).

This bracelet would:

• Take the place of an airline boarding pass

• Contain personal information about the traveler

• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if the passenger got out of line.

Clearly the Electronic ID Bracelet is a euphemism for the EMD Safety Bracelet, or at least it has a nefarious hidden ability (thus the term ID Bracelet is ambiguous at best). EMD stands for Electro-Musclar Disruption. Again, according to the promotional video, the bracelet can completely immobilize the wearer for several minutes.

So is the government really that interested in this bracelet?

Apparently so.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: airlines
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I would completely support any scam surrounding these bracelets. Figure out how to set one off remotely....then have a friend fly the same flight, acting as if they don’t know you. Have them set yours off.....then sit back and sue whoever you can.


41 posted on 12/03/2009 4:57:42 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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42 posted on 12/03/2009 4:57:56 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Remember when airline travel was actually FUN!?...


43 posted on 12/03/2009 4:58:33 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
So all I have to do is take the controls away from the stewardess and I get to zap anybody I don't like? Cool.

Another thought...how are you gonna get one of those on a 550 pound passenger?

44 posted on 12/03/2009 5:13:30 PM PST by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: 70times7

>What’s yer problem!?! The rugrat can either fetch muh paper er pay the price!<

BAD FREEPER!!! BAD BOY!!! ZZZZZZTTTT!!!!!

(ROFL)


45 posted on 12/03/2009 5:21:36 PM PST by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: Be_Politically_Erect

“Get yur hands off me, you damn, dirty ape !”


46 posted on 12/03/2009 6:13:30 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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The boy gets reel upset when the paper is close to them little white flags. Durned if’n he do, durned if’n he don’t. I tells im’ it gits him ready fer a wife. Cept collar’s in a diffrent place.


47 posted on 12/03/2009 6:24:06 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: anonsquared
,i>Better yet, attach one to each and every Congressman and Senator and program it to activate every time they vote for increased spending with increasing amps with each wrong vote.

Nah. Use this collar for them...

Smile

48 posted on 12/03/2009 6:31:09 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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Look at the date. This article is from more than a year ago... "By BLACK & DENNING on July 1, 2008 into Aviation Security"
49 posted on 12/03/2009 7:34:52 PM PST by PghBaldy (James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed Martin Luther King Jr.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Thanks for the smile FRiend! I’d forgotten that one. :-)

BPE


50 posted on 12/04/2009 2:42:35 PM PST by Be_Politically_Erect (All Along The Watchtower.)
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