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Old Feb 22, 2013 | 1:10 pm
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Its in the news at DRO - Durango CO - but it's being presented as bad news in the local paper in a piece about various airport problems due to several flights leaving within a short period of each other.

To add insult to injury, the TSA on Tuesday took away the airport’s L-3 body-scanning equipment, nicknamed the “Gumby” because it makes a generic, cartoon-like image of passengers. It went to a larger airport to replace the controversial Rapiscan scanner that made the explicit, full-body images of passengers.

With the loss of Gumby, the Durango-La Plata Airport is back to checking passengers with metal detectors and body pat-downs. The wand also has been discontinued.
http://www.durangoherald.com/article...s-at-airport--

They don't seem to realize it's quicker for people to go through the WTMD
than to assume the surrender posture in their "Gumby."
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