Wii Balance board becomes the "new BDO?"
 

Hope this isn't a repeat, I hadn't seen it here yet... This is so, well, absurd I was working real hard to think of something funny to say but I'm left... off balance... :eek:

Well hmm, I am stunned.

Just more evidence of an out of control agency.
Now if I could get in on some of the $20 million, then maybe I might sing a different tune. I am sure whoever is getting these contracts are laughing all the way to the bank.
I used to work for a government contractor. What waste and inefficiency, but we all played the game, as it was a paycheck.

As long as I get to stand on it naked while someone fingers everything in my luggage I think its a great idea. Anything to make me safer.

"LOL, the problem is the TSA is full of and run by complete idiots. The TSA is without doubt the most USELESS agency there is.

RT"

Comment from the article.

This is a joke, right?

They're serious. Words fail me.

~~ Irish

was the TSA hoarding them a year ago? Is that why everyone had to pay triple retail to buy one on eBay?

Sadly, no.

The TSA will piss away millions of dollars on useless crap but won't spend $5000 on a strapping machine to at least test the securing of luggage from molestation.

Wha???? Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen when they run someone through this thing with a middle ear/balance problem. Fall off of the thing, break a hip (common when the elderly fall & capable of being fatal).

Why don't they just bring back dunking and reading chicken entrails? Just as accurate as the current means BDOs use.

IFM Dept.
 

Wii been talking about this Improvised Fidgeting Monitor* since Wednesday. ;)

* No I did not make that up, it is what they call it. The Lord knows I cannot hold enough alcohol to possibly come up with stuff as stupid as TSA folks come up with while sober. :p

Well it looks like anywhere I have to go I'll be driving. I can't stand without weaving, even before I drink. I broke my foot and tore the tendons in both ankles and I have a problem with my ability to balance if standing for any length of time. My kids call me the human Weeblo....I wobble but I don't fall down.

This is more than ridiculous. Nice to see our tax dollars going for something so technical.

airline brat

No more of a joke than the entire agency.

Just...wow. I'd seen the article but totally missed... :confused: "Researchers????" How irritated are Wii going to be to find out who paid for that, er... "research?" Wii're getting to see how they Ninten do keep the airport their own little Playstations. Who knows what Gizmondo they'll try next! This has got to be a Segaway to the Genesis of some bad Dreamcast. Bet they'll rename the "ATI" the GameCube which is another way of saying the MMW is actually the Xratedbox where the operator sits in front of a not-so-Virtual Console!

Uh, well, I must be off... :p

By that standard no joke can be as big as the TSA.

As in: "I took my son to Disney World. He wanted a Mickey Mouse outfit, so I gave him TSA."