Crazy airport security theater affecting travel & economy?

Discussion in 'Economics' started by hippie, Nov 19, 2010.

  1. Acrylic knives existed pre 9/11. Are we safer now?

    They lock the cockpit doors and the pilot has a gun. Let some nut job shank someone in flight and watch him get a royal beatdown by all the men on the plane.
     
    #71     Nov 22, 2010
  2. Dogs need to be trained to sniff contraband. Orchids are not life threatening last I heard. :D
     
    #72     Nov 22, 2010
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    this stuff is funny. i travel about 80 times a year. if someone wants to grope me, let em. i could care less.

    i won't, however, walk through some radiation emitting machine. i'll opt for the hand search.
     
    #73     Nov 22, 2010
  4. Mav88

    Mav88

    Dude, all the rest of us are not gay.

    I'm glad you like the quickies you get with TSA, and maybe those guys do have the common courtesy of giving you a reach-around after they grope up your ass, but I don't think I need to pass through Shawshank prison just to board a plane.
     
    #74     Nov 22, 2010
  5. Back years ago in a Psychology class, they told us about a social psych experiment at Stanford. Chosen at random, some of the participants were the guards, the others were the prisoners. They planned for a weak to see what would happen. They had to end it after 3 days because the participants morphed into the roles so well it was totally unethical treatment. (I think the researcher's name was Zell or Zimbala, something with a "Z").
    It seems this whole TSA thing has reproduced the experiment on a grand scale. Give someone a badge and tell them they're in charge with a duty, and they quickly go over the top.
     
    #75     Nov 22, 2010
  6. How about your kids(if you have any)? You okay with that also?
     
    #76     Nov 22, 2010
  7. #77     Nov 22, 2010
  8. When I have to fly again I am going to demand a female to search me and ask for the "bonus plan".

    If my 10 yr old daughter is with me and they do that to her though, I will file suit for Sexual Assault of a Minor.
     
    #78     Nov 22, 2010
  9. Businessman

    Businessman


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    #79     Nov 22, 2010
  10. Body Scanner Operator Caught Masturbating at Colorado Airport

    DENVER - USA - A full body scanner operator was caught masturbating during a scanning session by airport staff late Tuesday.

    Airport officials at Denver International airport were on high alert yesterday when a full body scanner operator was caught masturbating in his booth as a team of High School netball players went through the scanner.

    "The young ladies were going through the scanner one by one, and every time one went through, this guys face was getting redder and redder. His hand was moving and then he started sweating. He was then seen doing his 'O' face. That's when the security dragged him out of his booth and cuffed him. He had his pants round his ankles and everybody was really disgusted," Jeb Rather, a passenger on a flight to New York told CBS news.

    http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=124&a=2389
     
    #80     Nov 23, 2010