Frustrated with Airline Security? Try These.

[wendybeth]

Speaking purely for myself, I have zero probs with a scan or a feel-up. The first, because I don't fly that much and so doubt the dreaded rays will do any more harm than my proximity to Hanford, and the second because it happens so seldom any more.

Seriously, I think flying, like driving, is not a 'right' but a privilege- and if you have nefarious plans to blow up my plane, I'd like your sorry ass to be busted beforehand. I'm not sure if the TSA's latest measures will be any more effective than prior ones, but something has to be better than nothing. It's a weird world we live in these days, and it's only going to get worse.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Redstate? Really? REDSTATE?!

Not that it matters but someone sent me the link. So yes, redstate. Not everyone who is liberal is so far to the left they can't fathom looking at a site that might be from the other side. Sorry if I offended your delicate sensibilities. Or not.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Don't care. Someone screwed up and missed it the first time. So what? He still shouldn't have had it.

The absurdity has nothing to do with that fact that he was military, that the entire plane was military, that he was carrying an unloaded weapon, or any of the other circumstances. It's absurd that nail clippers are banned, the particulars around this instance of someone being "caught" with them are irrelevant to me.

Exactly! It's pointing out the absurdity of nail clippers being classified as a weapon. An unloaded gun can still cause a lot of physical damage.

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I am really on the fence about this. On the one hand, I am ambivalent as to whether I am scanned - if someone gets off on looking at my junk, then have at it. On the other hand, I am concerned as to whether we are having our personal liberties slowly chipped away at.

Ditto.



The last time I flew they confiscated my friends can of deodorant but didn't' see the corkscrew in my carry on.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Not that it matters but someone sent me the link. So yes, redstate. Not everyone who is liberal is so far to the left they can't fathom looking at a site that might be from the other side. Sorry if I offended your delicate sensibilities. Or not.

1) I'm not a liberal.

2) I look at plenty of sites, both left and right. Heck, I've even been to Fox News a few times. However, Redstate makes Fox look like Huffington Post. It's pure paranoid lunacy.

3) My sensibilities aren't nearly as delicate some here.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

SNL's TSA Sketch

[Disneyphile]

I've heard that a bunch of guys are vowing to wear kilts (traditionally) and "opt-out" tomorrow.

Makes me want to wear a short skirt with no panties until I'm through security next time I fly.

[€uroMeinke]

or maybe just fly with a trenchcoat

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Makes me want to wear a short skirt with no panties until I'm through security next time I fly.

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

or maybe just fly with a trenchcoat

My concern is the next time I take my teenage daughter on a trip.

Yes dear, you have a choice. Stand over there if you want them to take naked pictures of you or over here if you want to have Agent Pat get to third base with you.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

or maybe just fly with a trenchcoat

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Yes dear, you have a choice. Stand over there if you want them to take naked pictures of you or over here if you want to have Agent Pat get to third base with you.

That would make a great Amtrak commercial!

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

if someone gets off on looking at my junk, then have at it..

...and yet you still won't send me that photo...

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

That would make a great Amtrak commercial!

Except that Amtrak is already making plans....