Blogger Bob
Jan 25, 2010 | 12:17 pm
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Blogger Bob
Have You ever tried to visualize a face with a name? I was just looking at some passenger TSA video's on Youtube and ran across Blogger Bob x-raying a Macbook Air. He couldn't show it to us because it's "SSI", but he says he knows why after seeing the x-ray that it causes so many TSA agents to become confused.
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:08 pm
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How pointless!
"We are going to show this laptop go through the X-ray machine, but we are not actually going to show anything."
How can the image on the display be rationally classified as sensitive? Most checkpoints have the screens visible to everyone walking past.
"We are going to show this laptop go through the X-ray machine, but we are not actually going to show anything."
How can the image on the display be rationally classified as sensitive? Most checkpoints have the screens visible to everyone walking past.
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:17 pm
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Quite surprising!
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:25 pm
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Quite surprising!
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:37 pm
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Oh no, not SSI !!!
Just do a Google image search for "Xray Macbook Air"
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5517/98980318tz6.jpg
and you will see what the TSA doesn't want you to see.
What was the point of that video?
"We are going to show you how we Xray the computer, but we can't show you the image."
Just do a Google image search for "Xray Macbook Air"
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5517/98980318tz6.jpg
and you will see what the TSA doesn't want you to see.
What was the point of that video?
"We are going to show you how we Xray the computer, but we can't show you the image."
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:43 pm
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Have You ever tried to visualize a face with a name? I was just looking at some passenger TSA video's on Youtube and ran across Blogger Bob x-raying a Macbook Air. He couldn't show it to us because it's "SSI", but he says he knows why after seeing the x-ray that it causes so many TSA agents to become confused.
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Yeah, they probably asked a screener to steal one from a passenger's checked bags.
Jan 25, 2010 | 1:51 pm
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Not surprised in the least. Other than now knowing what Bob looks like, that video was just as informative as the blog.
Jan 25, 2010 | 7:22 pm
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Quite surprising!
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
I always expected Blogger Bob to look more like this:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8845
I had pictured him differently, but this picture captures him perfectly!Have You ever tried to visualize a face with a name? I was just looking at some passenger TSA video's on Youtube and ran across Blogger Bob x-raying a Macbook Air. He couldn't show it to us because it's "SSI", but he says he knows why after seeing the x-ray that it causes so many TSA agents to become confused.
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Anyway, I thought for those of you who have never seen Blogger Bob that you may want to be able to put a face and voice with the name, so here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qZc...eature=related
Idiots..
Last edited by FriendlySkies; Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Jan 25, 2010 | 10:29 pm
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Bobbo appears to be rejecting my most recent comment at PV.
First time I didn't save it. Second and third time I did.
First time I didn't save it. Second and third time I did.
Originally Posted by Ayn R. Key
Bob,
It is well known that you only ever reply to comments in the absolute most recent blog entry. That is unfortunate because there are many comments in the entry posted ONE DAY before this one that are crying out for your attention.
Get over to the older entry and do your job. Reply to the questions and comments about the TSO who planted drugs to find.
It is well known that you only ever reply to comments in the absolute most recent blog entry. That is unfortunate because there are many comments in the entry posted ONE DAY before this one that are crying out for your attention.
Get over to the older entry and do your job. Reply to the questions and comments about the TSO who planted drugs to find.
Jan 25, 2010 | 10:42 pm
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We should fire Bob and find someone who actually responds to questions and works for free!
Jan 26, 2010 | 4:27 am
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Originally Posted by Ayn R. Key
Bob,
It is well known that you only ever reply to comments in the absolute most recent blog entry. That is unfortunate because there are many comments in the entry posted ONE DAY before this one that are crying out for your attention.
Get over to the older entry and do your job. Reply to the questions and comments about the TSO who planted drugs to find.
Bob,
It is well known that you only ever reply to comments in the absolute most recent blog entry. That is unfortunate because there are many comments in the entry posted ONE DAY before this one that are crying out for your attention.
Get over to the older entry and do your job. Reply to the questions and comments about the TSO who planted drugs to find.
Jan 26, 2010 | 5:09 am
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Thanks a lot very interesting. What would be your professional opinion about the fact that harmless 'joking' at a checkpoint gets a passenger into jail while a serious and mean practical joke at the checkpoint causes a TSA worker 'to be in the unemployement line' only?
Jan 26, 2010 | 5:45 am
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Amazing!
I never would have known what a laptop going into (and coming out of!) an x-ray machine looked like without this video.
Thanks Blogger Bob!
[actually, this video does seem to have been made all the way back in 2008 before most of America knew what x-ray machines were and how items were placed in the tub ... what? ... oh ... sorry ... nevermind]
Thanks Blogger Bob!
[actually, this video does seem to have been made all the way back in 2008 before most of America knew what x-ray machines were and how items were placed in the tub ... what? ... oh ... sorry ... nevermind]