those explosive detectors
May 20, 2018 | 10:59 am
#1
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those explosive detectors
Didn't realize that the body scanners pick up handkerchiefs .
I was therefore singled out and they swiped me and my hands with that strip to put in the (I assume ) explosive detections machine.
Don't these people realize that any self respecting terrorist would have someone else handle any explosives and place them in his suitcases or carry-on for him?
I was therefore singled out and they swiped me and my hands with that strip to put in the (I assume ) explosive detections machine.
Don't these people realize that any self respecting terrorist would have someone else handle any explosives and place them in his suitcases or carry-on for him?
May 20, 2018 | 11:16 am
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Didn't realize that the body scanners pick up handkerchiefs .
I was therefore singled out and they swiped me and my hands with that strip to put in the (I assume ) explosive detections machine.
Don't these people realize that any self respecting terrorist would have someone else handle any explosives and place them in his suitcases or carry-on for him?
I was therefore singled out and they swiped me and my hands with that strip to put in the (I assume ) explosive detections machine.
Don't these people realize that any self respecting terrorist would have someone else handle any explosives and place them in his suitcases or carry-on for him?
May 21, 2018 | 7:54 am
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As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
May 21, 2018 | 8:20 am
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Any self respecting "explosives" detector would not false alarm on, of all things, a handkerchief.
As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
May 21, 2018 | 8:47 am
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May 21, 2018 | 9:38 am
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The MMW Body Scanner with ATR often alarms on my bare neck. No implants, jewelry, markings, or other unusual items. Really unsettling getting bare skin pat downs. Guess TSA thinks my neck is a realistic replica.
May 21, 2018 | 9:54 am
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wonder if well endowed men get identified as terrorists too. I have heard of people sticking a cucumber down there to see what happens
May 21, 2018 | 10:57 am
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Any self respecting "explosives" detector would not false alarm on, of all things, a handkerchief.
As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
May 21, 2018 | 12:08 pm
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Have plates and screws in my back and haven't alarmed WTMD or WBI.
May 21, 2018 | 1:35 pm
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From the experiences of my friends, it takes something along the lines of an artificial knee or hip to trigger a metal detector. A large metal plate might also, although I have a friend with a fairly large plate in his tibia that never alarms on metal detectors. Friends with staples and screws have not reported anything.
Last edited by catocony; May 22, 2018 at 9:13 am
May 21, 2018 | 3:05 pm
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Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
more accurate to say "there have been no attacks on U.S. domestic-departing aviation..."
May 21, 2018 | 3:23 pm
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The 95% was for Red Team test items missed by TSA, not actual threats. I think the statement goes back to no known active threats in play. That doesn't mean there are no unknown threats being planned.