« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate  (Read 1254 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline ABX

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 900
  • Words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« on: March 04, 2017, 04:50:32 pm »
Quote
....The TSA used to use 5 different types of pat downs with varying degrees of invasiveness and ‘intimacy’. Now they plan to use just a single style of massage.

    The new physical touching—for those selected to have a pat-down—will be more invasive in what the federal agency describes as a more “comprehensive” physical screening, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.

    Denver International Airport, for example, notified employees and flight crews on Thursday that the “more rigorous” searches “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.”...

http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2017/03/03/not-onion-tsa-announces-pat-downs-will-become-intimate/
Logged

Offline bolobaby

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,373
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2017, 06:48:27 pm »
As long as the "scan" looks like this in action, i have no objections!

Logged
How to lose credibility while posting:
1. Trump is never wrong.
2. Default to the most puerile emoticon you can find. This is especially useful when you can't win an argument on merits.
3. Be falsely ingratiating, completely but politely dismissive without talking to the points, and bring up Hillary whenever the conversation is really about conservatism.
4. When all else fails, remember rule #1 and #2. Emoticons are like the poor man's tweet!

Offline Taxcontrol

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 651
  • Gender: Male
  • "Stupid should hurt" - Dad's wisdom
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2017, 07:40:20 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on March 04, 2017, 04:50:32 pm


Hire the girls from Hooters and the guys from Chip & Dale's to do these pat downs,  Allow the traveler to pay an extra $15 for the option to have the person of their choice perform the pat down.

/sarc
Logged

Online mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 79,175
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2017, 08:12:39 pm »
Quote
The TSA is just now making this change as a reaction to its 95% failure rate detecting weapoins being exposed nearly two years ago. (Although of course a decade earlier the failure rate was revealed to be 91%.)
Show of hands, who feels safer?

If a TSA screener gets too familiar with me, it almost would be worth the criminal charges to punch him or her in the face.
Logged
Support Israel's emergency medical service. afmda.org

geronl

  • Guest
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2017, 08:20:53 pm »
TSA needs to be abolished
Logged

Offline Hoodat

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 36,822
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2017, 01:11:44 am »
Quote
the “more rigorous” searches “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.”...
 

I was on the receiving end of one of these two weeks ago.  I definitely felt violated.  It was the old 'you have been selected for random screening' bit which seems to happen too frequently for it to be 'random'. 

Travelling again today, the couple just ahead of me got selected for the 'random' molestation while I had my carry-ons x-rayed, physically unpacked and searched, and x-rayed again.  The whole process literally took ten minutes.
Logged
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

-Dwight Eisenhower-


"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

-Ayn Rand-

Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 18,200
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2017, 01:31:44 am »
Logged

geronl

  • Guest
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2017, 05:06:45 am »
It's for the children
Logged

Offline Suppressed

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12,921
  • Gender: Male
    • Avatar
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2017, 05:36:23 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on March 05, 2017, 01:11:44 am
It was the old 'you have been selected for random screening' bit which seems to happen too frequently for it to be 'random'. 

Before 9/11, I was picked every time.  I looked like a terrorist.

Now, it's only every so often.
Logged
+++++++++
“In the outside world, I'm a simple geologist. But in here .... I am Falcor, Defender of the Alliance” --Randy Marsh

“The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“He's so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent.” --Foghorn Leghorn

Offline Hondo69

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,673
  • The more I know the less I understand
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2017, 09:24:21 am »
The question is why?

According to the article, the heavy duty searches are in response to a two-year old investigation that revealed a failure rate of over 90%.  That explanation raises about ten questions - but I'll set them aside until my anger subsides.

It doesn't pass the smell test.
Logged

Offline Applewood

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,361
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2017, 12:28:13 pm »
Quote from: Suppressed on March 05, 2017, 05:36:23 am
Before 9/11, I was picked every time.  I looked like a terrorist.

Now, it's only every so often.

I get picked most of the time.  I'm an old lady with a cane.
Logged

Online mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 79,175
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2017, 01:10:09 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on March 05, 2017, 01:11:44 am
I was on the receiving end of one of these two weeks ago. ...
And we don't even ask why. Well, after all, it's random. In a sane world, however, there wouldn't be random searches. There would be searches of those most likely to be a threat - but we're allowed to "profile," dontcha know.  **nononono*
Logged
Support Israel's emergency medical service. afmda.org

Offline rodamala

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,534
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2017, 04:48:39 am »
Quote from: geronl on March 04, 2017, 08:20:53 pm
TSA needs to be abolished
+1,000,000

I am "one of those a-holes" that refused to go in the machine and hold my hands up giving the Masonic distress gesture.



Seeing the sheeple at the airports in those full body-scan machines lets me know that the terrorists won on 9/11, and the American spirit is offically dead.



D. E. A. D.

Dead.

Logged

Offline Hondo69

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,673
  • The more I know the less I understand
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2017, 07:56:29 am »
According to Team Obama the most likely candidates for terrorism are white males, especially ex-military.

OK, so let's get rid of those damn machines.  Obama's buddy had already made his money selling the machines so we can get rid of them now.  Payment complete.  And his jobs program of hiring TSA agents is complete as well.  Now that they're all hired train them to spot white ex-military and let everyone else have a little dose of Liberty.

Oh, I forgot, there's the rub.  We can't have Americans walking around feeling like their free now can we?
Logged

Offline Hondo69

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,673
  • The more I know the less I understand
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2017, 08:00:15 am »
Quote from: Taxcontrol on March 04, 2017, 07:40:20 pm
Hire the girls from Hooters and the guys from Chip & Dale's to do these pat downs,  Allow the traveler to pay an extra $15 for the option to have the person of their choice perform the pat down.

/sarc

Now there's the good old American entrepreneurial spirit.  Can we pat back?
Logged

Online mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 79,175
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2017, 12:13:04 pm »
Trump should import an Israeli to head up TSA.
Logged
Support Israel's emergency medical service. afmda.org

Offline Hondo69

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,673
  • The more I know the less I understand
Re: NOT THE ONION: TSA Announces Pat Downs Will Become More Intimate
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2017, 02:40:29 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on March 06, 2017, 12:13:04 pm
Trump should import an Israeli to head up TSA.

Bingo
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »