x-ray or tsa pat down?

[BearBoi]

so you're at the airport and you're singled out.

would you opt for the x-ray? or the pat down by the tsa?

you only have two options and...

go!

There is always a third option.

Neither. I will not be electronically stripped nor molested. I'd simply rather go without flying. Besides, cruise ships are so much more dignified.

 

[hotatlboi]

can't be anymore harmful than the bunch of MRIs I had in the past year and half...

Yes, it can be.

MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. The picture is obtained by the use of a magnetic field (so it is more similar to a regular metal detector). It does not use ionizing radiation like x-ray machines.

 

[Lefty]

I love the dignity on board a ship....

the way fresh food and water is brought out to you.

3.5 knots is a damn good speed and the interaction with all the guests...

hot times.....

To each his own.....at my age a pat on the ass can be a good thing and

as one over 40 might add.....a gracious grope can really be dope.

 

[Ryuukie]

Frankly, they can do both. I have nothing to hide. Although a pat down sounds more exciting. LOL

 

[freefall]

Whatever. Both sounds equally uncomfortable for me, especially when there are a line behind me.

But definitely X-Ray scanning is not built for pregnant women. I hope the TSA guards know that.

 

[ibill1]

Since I will pass through security up to 30 times a month, I have to opt for the pat down because of health issues. You are not going to know who is going to pat you down, so you'll not know if he is hot or not. If you are going through the normal scanner, and you set it off and need additional inspection, he or she will call one of the other agents standing around to do the pat down. You won't know this until after you have made the decision not to use the full body scanner.

 

[Kyanimal]

Hmmm ... let me think about this ...

Someone taking naked pictures of me or feeling me up? And, I don't have to PAY them?

GL, you should have made the poll so I could check Both!

O.K.! I know! ...

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Some people are so fucking uptight.

Jesus, I get so sick of hearing people whine about how unfair life is... they now want a country free of terrorism but don't want it to affect their lives at all.

Sorry, don't work like that.

 

[birddog7]

Neither! I don't fly, so it don't bother me.

 

[Críostóir]

I'm taking the train.

 

[BearBoi]

Are you sure about that??

Quite.

I don't travel faux luxury by the way of Carnival monstrosities.

 

[FanofFiction]

Pat down all the way. I have to agree with those who think a whole body x-ray is an invasion of privacy.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

OK, all kidding aside...

Welcome to my life.

For most of my adult life, every time I go to the airport, I get "randomly" pulled aside for screening. I've had to drop my pants, get felt up, once I had to literally pull out my dick to show them that I have a PA, not a submachine gun.

I've had fingers stuck in places you don't wanna know about.

I guess that looking like a white supremacist has more down-sides than up-sides.

But I've never once complained about it. Because it's just the way it goes. If you want to live in a 100% terror-free safe-zone but still be able to fly in airplanes, go to rock concerts, visit the White House and get checked for testicular cancer, you're going to have to let someone touch your junk.

If you don't like that, take the train. The constitution doesn't guarantee you the right to convenient and fast travel without getting felt up.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

The Constitution does guarantee protection from unreasonable searches.

Ok, but if you don't want the "unreasonable" search (and I don't personally think it's unreasonable at all), take the train. You're not forced to fly in airplanes. It's a choice.

 

[AlmondMilk]

Pat me down ;D

I had one professor who was complaining about this. He kept saying he didn't want anything... no x-ray or pat down.

 

[Críostóir]

I think the attempt to be 100% safe is stupid, doomed to failure, and largely a tactic to suppress free travel within the United States.

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

A lot of people here forget that this is not a privilege, you are a paying customer of a for profit (and very profitable if that) private company (airlines).
No one is giving you anything here you are paying for a product/service and being treated like a shit wad convict.
We seem to forget that. But you only need to see the record profits airlines are making after charging for baggage now to see they got it down. While they scream poverty when fuel prices soar somehow they find a way to succeed and treat the customer like shit.
And the customer accepts this but if the government ran the airlines it would be holy hell to pay.
True enough we need good security, and true enough air travel is standard without a doubt the most convenient & fastest way from point A to point B.

Also true enough someone who will put a bomb in their underwear is going to swallow the explosives have them sown under their skin or shove them up there ass or cunt and that is the next step.
Once they take your belt,... a excellent weapon, your ring of keys,... can be used in your fist and point a long key between your fingers do some serious weapon on another person, and your shoes.
Those that claim they have nothing to hide are really the sitting sucks because they don't know what they are loosing all the time they give rights away.
Security could be handled in a better manner. You don't need to be feeling up my little sister or my Grandmother,... or me. Common sense can tell you that Grandma flying from Baltimore to Tampa and back after thanksgiving living in the same house for 30 yrs growing up in America and using a 15 yr old VISA account with the same phone number on it isn't a fucking terrorist.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

So if people stop flying, raise the prices.

Personally, I'd prefer if flights cost 3 times what they do now.

There would be fewer big huge families with screaming kids, annoying game boys, there would be fewer class trips with shouting hormonal teens...

Back in the 50s, families went on road trips in campers, they'd drive across the country. Airlines were a luxury. I think Americans have been pampered enough and it's time for them to stop thinking that the whole world needs to revolve around them.

 

[Lefty]

As far as grannies and what they put where....nowadays, you just don't
know. Didn't we just send some spies home that had been here for years?
What about 9-11.....well, follow the 'train' of thought.

Airport security is regulated by and funded through the Government lad. The
Airlines are told what they will and won't do or allow. Literally pounds of
documents and instructions.

I was in the business for many years and, if you think it sucks when a building
or a street or even just a car goes boom....imagine how you are going to feel
at +or- 30,000 feet. Sorry lad but the same principle applies here as it does to
the pro baller and his pads/cup/helmet....

 

[EJMichaels]

Rifle-carrying soldier has toenail clippers confiscated by TSA

Full text at link. This is supposed to be true. Here's an excerpt:

When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), had all of our bags searched, the whole nine yards. . . .

This is probably another good time to remind you all that all of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols.

So we’re in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they’re going to confiscate his nail clippers. The conversation went something like this:

TSA Guy: You can’t take those on the plane.

Soldier: What? I’ve had them since we left country.

TSA Guy: You’re not suppose to have them.

Soldier: Why?

TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.

Soldier: [touches butt stock of the rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And I’m allowed to take it on.

TSA Guy: Yeah but you can’t use it to take over the plane. You don’t have bullets.

Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?

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It wouldn't have been a good time to mention that he could hit someone over the head with the disabled rifle.

Given only the two choices, I want to avoid being scanned by their supposedly safe devices, so it's the train or pat-down for me.