Underwire Bra Makes Flight a Bust [Merged Threads]
Aug 25, 2008 | 7:37 pm
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Underwire Bra Makes Flight a Bust [Merged Threads]
From today's SF Gate:
Security bust: Berkeley woman misses flight when bra triggers alarm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...HVK3.DTL&tsp=1
Note the multitude of reader responses, virtually all of which pan the TSA.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly do they do to ensure that someone who says that his artificial hip is what set off the wand really has an artificial hip? Do they make that person strip? Stick a probe in?
TSA: Continuing to prove that they can find more and more idiotic ways to violate personal rights.
Security bust: Berkeley woman misses flight when bra triggers alarm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...HVK3.DTL&tsp=1
Note the multitude of reader responses, virtually all of which pan the TSA.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly do they do to ensure that someone who says that his artificial hip is what set off the wand really has an artificial hip? Do they make that person strip? Stick a probe in?
TSA: Continuing to prove that they can find more and more idiotic ways to violate personal rights.
Aug 25, 2008 | 7:49 pm
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So back she went to the ladies room, then through the security line a second time. Walking through the airport bra-less can be embarrassing for a large-chested woman, not to mention uncomfortable. The metal detector didn't beep on the second time through, but then officials decided to go through Kates' carry-on luggage, she said.
Nice.
Way to win the battle, but lose the PR war.
Love this part of the article....
Barry Steinhardt, the director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program, said Monday of federal security officials, "They can't find bombs in checked luggage, and they're essentially doing a pat-down of private parts. This is a security apparatus that is out of control."
Aug 25, 2008 | 7:58 pm
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bad, but still not as bad as that story out of Texas where a women had to remove her nipple piercing while all the agents giggle and laughed about it.
Aug 25, 2008 | 9:41 pm
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New sketch for SNL
I can just imagine the SNL character guys (Roxbury guys), working at the TSA.
First Skit: Hey, that girls looks hot. Let's make here take off her bra. She goes through, and they make a "Beep" noise. So, off she goes to remove the bra. She comes back, and they "Beep" again. This time time they make her take another undergarment. Repeat, like you're playing strip poker with ANS. At the end, have them do their moves, and break the glass divider when they whack their heads into it.
First Skit: Hey, that girls looks hot. Let's make here take off her bra. She goes through, and they make a "Beep" noise. So, off she goes to remove the bra. She comes back, and they "Beep" again. This time time they make her take another undergarment. Repeat, like you're playing strip poker with ANS. At the end, have them do their moves, and break the glass divider when they whack their heads into it.
Aug 25, 2008 | 11:06 pm
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Aug 26, 2008 | 12:35 am
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I can just imagine the SNL character guys (Roxbury guys), working at the TSA.
First Skit: Hey, that girls looks hot. Let's make here take off her bra. She goes through, and they make a "Beep" noise. So, off she goes to remove the bra. She comes back, and they "Beep" again. This time time they make her take another undergarment. Repeat, like you're playing strip poker with ANS. At the end, have them do their moves, and break the glass divider when they whack their heads into it.
First Skit: Hey, that girls looks hot. Let's make here take off her bra. She goes through, and they make a "Beep" noise. So, off she goes to remove the bra. She comes back, and they "Beep" again. This time time they make her take another undergarment. Repeat, like you're playing strip poker with ANS. At the end, have them do their moves, and break the glass divider when they whack their heads into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL41iY7nd0
Aug 26, 2008 | 3:51 am
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What we need is a federal judge with the stones to go against the people who sign his paycheck to provide a major smackdown to the TSA. Not going to happen any time soon.
Aug 26, 2008 | 5:24 am
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Because they were asstards who had the power. Idiot Boy and Skeletor both claim there are no such things as punitive secondaries. This report needs to be crammed down both of their throats.
What we need is a federal judge with the stones to go against the people who sign his paycheck to provide a major smackdown to the TSA. Not going to happen any time soon.
What we need is a federal judge with the stones to go against the people who sign his paycheck to provide a major smackdown to the TSA. Not going to happen any time soon.
