Behavior Detection in STL-article
Mar 23, 2009 | 8:48 pm
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Depends where you are in the airport. Outside the sterile area they can't really do anything, so flipping them the bird is probably OK depending on your mood. If you're outside the terminal itself, they are fair game for what ever you want to say or do.
Mar 23, 2009 | 10:35 pm
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1) "I'm sorry, I'm a vampire and the direct sunlight could cause me to burst into flames."
2) "I don't want to have red-eye in the surveillance photos."
3) "The CIA has implanted a chip in my brain and removal of the sunglasses allows them to track me."
4) "I don't speak English."
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Mar 24, 2009 | 10:56 am
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A couple of possibilities:
1) "I'm sorry, I'm a vampire and the direct sunlight could cause me to burst into flames."
2) "I don't want to have red-eye in the surveillance photos."
3) "The CIA has implanted a chip in my brain and removal of the sunglasses allows them to track me."
4) "I don't speak English."
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1) "I'm sorry, I'm a vampire and the direct sunlight could cause me to burst into flames."
2) "I don't want to have red-eye in the surveillance photos."
3) "The CIA has implanted a chip in my brain and removal of the sunglasses allows them to track me."
4) "I don't speak English."
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Mar 24, 2009 | 12:24 pm
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What the heck? If somebody asked me to remove my sunglasses, I'd refuse. How does removing sunglasses "fix" anything?
This can also be interpreted as false detainment, since the article states that after he took his sunglasses off, the TSAer let him go. He has every legal right to just ignore that TSAer and continue walking.
Why is it that airports are increasingly feeling like high school hallways these days?
This can also be interpreted as false detainment, since the article states that after he took his sunglasses off, the TSAer let him go. He has every legal right to just ignore that TSAer and continue walking.
Why is it that airports are increasingly feeling like high school hallways these days?
Mar 24, 2009 | 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by TSA SpokesHole
A TSA spokeswoman said the agency has received a total of five passenger complaints nationwide about the behavior detection program since it began about two years ago.
Originally Posted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"There is a different environment at the airport than in, for example, a shopping mall," said Brooks, a former store detective who watched the checkpoint leading to the C and D concourses. "And you have to take that into account. People are out of their element."
Mar 24, 2009 | 8:25 pm
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Obviously that TSA spokesperson has thrown down the gauntlet. Only 5 complaints about SPOTniks in two years?!?! OK! Let's get to work. From now on, every random, wandering SPOTsoid who asks, "How's it going?" my response is, "What's your name? Can I see your TSA badge?" and complain.