Originally Posted by
TXagogo
Exact same here in DTW today. Why not go through the metal detector? It's there for a reason! Such idiocy. BTW, when he told you that you couldnt watch your stuff you accepted that??
By the time he got around to saying that, one of the "white shirts" had already started to carry my belongings over. I would have escalated, but my flight was starting to board, so I had to go.. Pat-down was not very invasive.
Originally Posted by
CelticPax
Ok, this is something I've wanted to ask for awhile, but I guess it already answered my question.
Nude-O-Scope's are now considered primary screening now? At least - unofficially?
This is really scary. And I don't even mean the loss of privacy, increased cancer risk, 4th amendment violations, jackboot syndrome, etc.
I mean, especially after the Red Team agent slipping through with a gun 5 times - a metal detector would have caught the gun even if it had been shoved in an orifice. A followup with a wand would have detected an anomaly.
Metal detectors should be at least an order of magnitude cheaper than Nude-O-Scopes and, *gasp*, they're already installed in every airport across the country!
If Nude-O-Scopes "obsolete" the tried-and-true metal detectors, the DHS/TSA are really putting us in danger. I can fathom the ego and money trips involved in wanting to turn things into a police state, but why put such effort into removing the metal detectors? Some tin-foil hatters may have claimed at some point that the DHS/TSA really do want something to go wrong, but if Porn-O-Scopes become primary screening, I think there's no doubt they're trying to pave the road for some catastrophe.
DHS/TSA really have their heads up their @$$.
Originally Posted by
dartagnan
Had the same thing at ORD T3 on Sunday. There was a HUGE line, since the backscatter took about 4x as long per passenger as the WTMD does. Idiotic.
One of the clerks was saying that they were short-staffed
Yeah, you have fifty people in line for one backscatter, with it taking fifteen minutes from entering the line, getting ID checked, and telling them that I was opting-out. Meanwhile, they had five clerks on the backscatter