|
|
12-30-2009, 12:18 PM
|
#41
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 401
|
Maureen Dowd put it cleverly:
If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
|
|
|
|
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!
|
12-30-2009, 12:49 PM
|
#42
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
|
I can't see how any system similar to the one we have could work well. The screeners are low paid employees doing an extremely monotonous job.
This current close call is probably a good thing, since it will allow the use of the X-ray vision body scanners despite objections from the prudes who are worried about airport employees seeing their "bosoms." That might also make the screeners jobs a little less monotonous.
__________________
Al
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:00 PM
|
#43
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,472
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by TromboneAl
I can't see how any system similar to the one we have could work well. The screeners are low paid employees doing an extremely monotonous job.
This current close call is probably a good thing, since it will allow the use of the X-ray vision body scanners despite objections from the prudes who are worried about airport employees seeing their "bosoms." That might also make the screeners jobs a little less monotonous.
|
If they use the body scanners, I hope they have female TSA employees scanning the women and male TSP employees scanning the men. That is the only way I would feel even slightly comfortable about it (if I should lose my mind and decide to fly somewhere in the near future). I'm really not a prude but the idea that someone is getting off over a body scan is really gross and slimy to me.
__________________
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:04 PM
|
#44
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
|
Im fine with whatever means they need to use. Except I dont think I would like a cavity search just to fly. I do not need some Nigerian ass face deciding his life sucks while I fly to England and blow up the plane.
The world changes and I adapt. I would just prefer when they catch these idiots just execute them on the tarmac while the video roles.
That way I can have my book out during the last hour of my flight.
Have a nice day.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:07 PM
|
#45
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 13,566
|
I guess I really don't care about the body scan, even though I may be a bit prudish. I mean, it isn't like they see your boobs hanging out or something. I am sure there might be a piercing related snicker or two when some of the younger folks I know might go through the line, but no worries on my end.
Good luck to you travelers...I would dread it.
Trek, I wish you a peaceful journey and I assume you use the trick where you have a new small toy for the little one to unwrap at intervals on the trip? Matchbox cars and the like? My friend who traveled with her smalls back and forth to NZ a few times swore by this method but wouldn't ever confess to using Benadryl, though I suspected it a few times.
__________________
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”
Gerard Arthur Way
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:15 PM
|
#46
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
I guess I really don't care about the body scan, even though I may be a bit prudish. I mean, it isn't like they see your boobs hanging out or something. I am sure there might be a piercing related snicker or two when some of the younger folks I know might go through the line, but no worries on my end.
Good luck to you travelers...I would dread it.
Trek, I wish you a peaceful journey and I assume you use the trick where you have a new small toy for the little one to unwrap at intervals on the trip? Matchbox cars and the like? My friend who traveled with her smalls back and forth to NZ a few times swore by this method but wouldn't ever confess to using Benadryl, though I suspected it a few times.
|
If you get a snicker pierced why would you care if some joe or jane from TSA knows if you got your snickerdoodle pierced ...
I just draw the line at probing. Thats for the aliens.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:16 PM
|
#47
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,894
|
I've just landed from my flight back from Europe. The full body pat down was so thorough that it may have qualified as my first gay experience...
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:19 PM
|
#48
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
|
Just checking. Making sure nothing explosive was in your pants.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:34 PM
|
#49
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,773
|
Flying out of Chicago in the morning--I'll put on some nice cologne and extra deodorant for the screeners.
Isn't there a funny scene in the movie Airplane with an x-ray security screening that shows comely young women in the altogether? Can't find it on Youtube.
__________________
“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:39 PM
|
#50
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,038
|
Perhaps we should take the TSA to Dinner and a Movie first before the search.
__________________
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:39 PM
|
#51
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
|
Pffft. Rather have it quick and dirty.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:52 PM
|
#52
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
|
__________________
Al
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 02:59 PM
|
#53
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,038
|
Well, if you have to ask what it is... It's not so much.
__________________
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 03:08 PM
|
#54
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
|
I have to rethink about being a cop now. Guess being too old isnt my number one concern.
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 04:22 PM
|
#55
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
Posts: 9,037
|
__________________
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 04:29 PM
|
#56
|
Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
|
My Mom who is 93 and has hip and knee implants is always taken aside and patted down . It's the most fun she's had in years !
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 04:34 PM
|
#57
|
Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
|
I had one of those in Scranton ,Pa. plus I was pulled behind a plastic wall ( totally see through ) for the procedure . It was so thorough the searcher knew where my under-wire started and stopped . Needless to say fellow passengers avoided me like the black plague .
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 04:54 PM
|
#58
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 649
|
Perhaps a cigarette after?
__________________
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means." Calvin Coolidge
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 05:10 PM
|
#59
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,773
|
__________________
“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
|
|
|
12-30-2009, 05:56 PM
|
#60
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,764
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by TromboneAl
|
I'm a little curious as to why the feeler took the feelee's word for it? If he had to ask, shouldn't he check?
__________________
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Anonymous (not Will Rogers or Sam Clemens)
DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Threads
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Quick Links
|
|
|