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Old Aug 18, 2009 | 1:45 am
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Originally Posted by amlothi
Originally Posted by Tangoer
Even the CN Tower has sniffing machines that blow air over you and read the results.

But airports, as far more risker places, do not have this basic technology. Does this make one iota of sense to anyone?
CVG has those.
TSA bought 207 of the puffers, deployed 94 before discovering that they don't work if there's dirt or humidity (), still has 33 in place. US$29.6 million. Whole stupid story is on PV over here.
Originally Posted by bocastephen
Are these people frickin' retarted???

They needed to spend MONEY to BUY a piece of equipment to randomly select people for a patdown instead of telling the screener to choose randomly (every nth person)?
A pair of dice ("roll a double and get a patdown!") or the spinner thingie from Twister ("spin today's alert level and get groped!") would not look as, umm, what's that word?, uhhh, professional.
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