I'm pretty sure that the ones in use here in Oz only check for drugs.

The problem is that you settled. Your fine with the situation cause it benefits you.

If they voted to get rid of your express lane in favor of no xrays or pat downs would you vote for it?

Isn't this a giant leak in security? So all a terrorist has to do to bypass security is fly a lot?

well it would be if the standard security measures were effective.

but they're not, so it's probably best if the high-revenue-generators aren't subjected to them

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...360818678.html

cliffnotes: doing stupid ineffectual **** like making sure you have a drivers license (and not checking it against the boarding pass or any flight manifest or database or anything) is supposed to KEEP THE TERRORISTS GUESSING

If the TSA was actually doing everything unobtrusive that they could, and planes were still being blown up, then I might understand the people who support pat downs etc. But the TSA doesn't even do things that are unobtrusive well so I don't get the point of pat downs and nude imaging etc.

Last month, my wife and I went to Hawaii to visit her side of the family for a baby shower (she's pregnant). The airport was super slow, so everyone that was going through security was going through the naked scanner. My wife didn't want to go through it while 5 months pregnant, and was so nervous to ask for a pat down, that she forgot to put her "liquids" through the screener on their own.

She got patted down, basically molested in front of me (I was being molested too, I never go through the screener and always ask for a pat down, just to be a dick and consume their time/protest a little). And they never caught her liquids.

They also didn't catch my liquids (I never pull them out, I always just let them go through, it's a game of mine to see if they even catch them. If they do catch them, it's not like anything bad happens to me...I just go ooopsie and they toss out my full sized toothpaste etc.).

So I don't get the point. They touch my penis, but they miss the water bottle (with water) full sized toothpaste, book of matches (I don't smoke, just do it for lols) and miss all of the liquid in my wife's bags too. Such a joke.

Oh, and the TSA is 2 for 7 in catching my liquids. Not a very good average if you ask me.

The randomness makes it better!

I told this story awhile ago in the LC thread. I was going to Vegas flying out of a super small local airport. I had packed a new bottle of cologne which was unfortunately 4oz (i.e. deadly). They pulled it out of my bag and were going to throw it away but I objected cuz I'm cheap and this was a $75 bottle. They told me I could go back into the terminal and rent a locker to keep it there. I did that but saw that the lockers were like $5/day and I wasn't going to pay that either. So I said "**** it" and put the thing in my cargo pocket to sneak it through.

When I got up there, they had switched us from the metal detector to the nude-o-scope, which I'd never gone through before. I figured I was screwed as i was blatantly trying to sneak stuff past security (same security gate, RST only has 1). But the nude-o-scope didn't catch the bottle in my pocket so I walked free. And smelled great in Vegas.

Keep up the good work.

I just pack my bags as usual, put in whatever toiletries I happen to need, of whatever sizes I have, put them in my carry on, and never put them in baggies or anything like that. I have never once had a bag stopped or inspected, never once had anything rejected or objected to.

It is an entirely useless precaution, AND it doesnt work.

Kudos for taking the patdown to waste their time. I too would not take my liquids bag out of my bag for a long time, I didn't even realize it was necessary because I made like 15 flights in a row without it being an issue. Finally they had a bag check and told me my bag with travel sized toothpaste and deodorant in it had to be on its own in the bin, for our safety of course.

I'd never let my wife through the scanner if she were pregnant.

It also really pains me when I see elderly couples who aren't used to the TSA bs get hassled. They get singled out and pulled aside because they're trying to take a tube of sensodyne on the plane with them. If they don't throw the toothpaste out, the terrorists win!

Victory?

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...s-dot-airports

I guess the microwave scanners are still going to be around, but the RapeyScan ones that use xrays are gone at least.

1. Sell crappy product to TSA
2. Outrage
3. Sell more stuff

Sounds like someone is celebrating.

So, is the government getting a refund or just not paying for the cost of taking these things to the dumpster?

What recourse do you have if they fondle your junk?

you can bitch about it on the internet

Okay, so I'm thinking prevention. How do you prevent the authorities from fondling your junk?

Oh, you just take the radiation and ogling.

Such an amazing thread title. Makes my day every time it gets bumped.

bump

http://www.photographyisnotacrime.co...t-checkpoints/

TSA agents are scum of the Earth. I think even more than other government officials.

If I had my way, every member of Congress, every federal judge and SCOTUS justice, every member of the White House would have to go through the TSA nonsense just to get to work everyday. Let the Speaker of the House get to choose between getting his balls irradiated or felt up like it's prom night just to enter the Capitol Building and that nonsense goes away fast.

meh if someone goes through in a wheelchair they're going to get extra screening

TSA agent accidentally pepper sprays fellow agents