Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
I'd ante up a dollar and say "a waste of money"?
ETA: Ooo, I bet someone is wasting money on radiation monitors! That'd be the sort of stupid pointless crap that TSA and DHS specializes in. Think of the delays they can cause by picking up everyone that has been through chemo or had a barium contrast xray recently and the press they can generate about how they're "protecting" everyone as a result! Press release after press release along the lines of, "See! It works so it must be protecting you!" (even though it means the line stops & someone is needlessly violated every ~30 minutes as a result of a false alarm).
Lest we forget:
Stress test
Chicago commuters got quite a shock last week when federal officials swarmed a train to investigate a possible nuclear threat - only to find that the radiation was coming from a passenger who had a stress test hours before.