I'm impressed they didn't shoot her.

DeRosso: I'm impressed they didn't shoot her.

They tried, but it only corrected her blood sugar level.

/best security kickbacks can buy

Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Look, if it wasn't for them there might be all kinds of terrorists from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, look, someplace, trying to blow us up with something or other. I'm sure they're doing a really good job protecting us from something. Somehow. And anyway, terrorism.

And the best part is they had to scramble police because she walked away from the screening area.

I did that once back in the '80s. I had a fifth of Wild Turkey (or maybe 151 - don't remember for sure) in my carry-on and the x-ray guy asked what it was, I told him and he said "the guy in the orange vest" will need to take a look. The "guy in the orange vest" wasn't paying attention so I just went on to my gate.

So at least now we've improved security that when you walk right by them they send the real cops to chase you down.

But the real question is - was there more than 3 ounces of fluid inside the pump? If so, she'd need to remove it and put it in the bin.

Actually they can, they let 8 out of every 10 guns through, and completely stop all insulin pumps...

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What is this picture supposed to represent and who's holding the neon bamboo so close to the camera?

I take it you've never been to LAX

ArrogantGod: Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Cell phones look like guns to cops.

I feel safer...

What about a penis pump?

/hawt

hey whatchall talkin bout?

Happy Hours: ArrogantGod: Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Cell phones look like guns to cops.

Wads of cash looks like guns to cops.

\and must be confiscated

Why on earth did she think getting a gun-shaped insulin pump was a good idea to begin with?

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What is this picture supposed to represent and who's holding the neon bamboo so close to the camera?

LAX has these neon structures right as you enter the airport. They also have a gigantic LAX out front, too. I guess these things make our airport special...

\special ed

dudemanbro: DeRosso: I'm impressed they didn't shoot her.

I was surprised she didn't get tased, and/or tackled and beaten senseless.


Or detained for several hours without a meal or snack...

Happy Hours: ArrogantGod: Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Cell phones look like guns to cops.

According to cops being asleep is a "threatening and aggressive posture"

Happy Hours: ArrogantGod: Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Cell phones look like guns to cops.

And Spielberg. :/

LessO2: I feel safer...

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Those people are all lucky they got away with a mere Freedom Grope™. If you really piss the TSA off, they pull you aside and give you the ol' Freedom Probe™.

Haha.

You people still fly?

I always opt for the Freedom Grope rather than the irradiation -- and always in public view. If we're going to have a police-state, it's a Good Thing that it not become too sanitized. The spectacle of people being physically searched for no reason is at least a small reminder of how bad things have become.

I flew home from SFO yesterday (business trip). After doing the security dance of putting my laptop, shoes, belt, keys, etc. into the little bins and making sure I had no metal on me, I walked through the detector. Some other random beeper went off anyway and I was steered into a little plexiglass cattle chute and left to wait (with no sign of anyone coming to do anything) as the agent turned his attention to the next people in line.

Eventually someone led me out and swabbed my hands for explosive residue or something. Meanwhile the line of bins coming out of the X-ray machine reached the end of the conveyor and overflowed, dumping a couple of laptops onto the ground. The agent picked up one of them, a Macbook Air, and asked if it was mine. I said no of course, but the actual owner was off somewhere else getting his own personal Freedom Fondle so I probably could have just walked away with it.

God forbid they actually run across someone with a Flolan pump.

"What is THIS! AHA! An electronic device with a tube going into your body...and it has a cartridge full of FLUID! And you think you're going to carry on more fluid cartridges? LIAR! LIAR!" (snatches pump loose)

"This is going into the BIN, you miscreant!!"

Telephone Sanitizer Second Class: Haha.

You people still fly?

Occasionally. I haven't mastered driving underwater and nobody has gotten around to building a tunnel to Europe yet.

jshine: I always opt for the Freedom Grope rather than the irradiation -- and always in public view. If we're going to have a police-state, it's a Good Thing that it not become too sanitized. The spectacle of people being physically searched for no reason is at least a small reminder of how bad things have become.


I've declined every time. Once I was given the TSA Huddle of Intimidation®. Only twice have I been asked why. I've always just claimed I want to avoid the radiation.

The last time I was thinking a bit too loudly when I said, "I'm more sure I can get over someone touching me than I'm convinced the radiation is harmless."

Telephone Sanitizer Second Class: Haha.

You people still fly?

You don't have a passport, do you?

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that last one, damn. I'm going commando the next time I fly. "Sure officer dropout, I'll drop trow so you can frisk me. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MY DICK! COME ON! STARE AT IT! STARE AT MY DICK YOU GOVERNMENT PATSY! It's what you wanted! Isn't it! That's why you joined the TSA, because you're a homosexual in denial and you want to spend all day looking at COCK! Well here it is, your dream come true. You ordered me to expose myself and I'm doing it!"

An insulin punp looks nothing like a gun.

boomm: I've declined every time. Once I was given the TSA Huddle of Intimidation®. Only twice have I been asked why. I've always just claimed I want to avoid the radiation.

The last time I was thinking a bit too loudly when I said, "I'm more sure I can get over someone touching me than I'm convinced the radiation is harmless."

You are being irradiated while in flight, about 30x the cosmic rays that you normally get on the ground. There are recommended limits for flight crews because of this. Pregnant crew members some places are required to be informed of the risks, for example.

The x-ray backscatter dose is negligible by comparison. It isn't meant to penetrate your body even, that would defeat the purpose unless you swallowed a gun.

Last time I flew they waved me around it, because some old dude couldn't grasp how he was supposed to hold his hands and it was slowing up everyone.

The terrorists are laughing at us right now.

Happy Hours: ArrogantGod: Insulin pumps look like cell phones btw

Cell phones look like guns to cops.

This is true.

Bacontastesgood: The x-ray backscatter dose is negligible by comparison. It isn't meant to penetrate your body even, that would defeat the purpose unless you swallowed a gun.


Truth be told, I live somewhere downstream of the Western Colorado Plateau and probably get more radiation from a glass of tap-water than the Rapiscan machines would leave.

I just don't have any problems with someone touching me when I am confident they won't hurt me. As someone said just above, the more people we have asking everyone to question the necessity of the searches, the more hope others will realize it's unnecessary.

I believe security was achieved with the existing luggage checks and the new locking cabin doors. The rest doesn't make much sense. Unless you get a feel-good from having people searched when by evidence or antidotes it doesn't appear to increase your personal safety.

I have started to call it the obamascope, after the man who was president when they came into use. Feel free to share.

boomm: jshine: I always opt for the Freedom Grope rather than the irradiation -- and always in public view. If we're going to have a police-state, it's a Good Thing that it not become too sanitized. The spectacle of people being physically searched for no reason is at least a small reminder of how bad things have become.


I've declined every time. Once I was given the TSA Huddle of Intimidation®. Only twice have I been asked why. I've always just claimed I want to avoid the radiation.

The last time I was thinking a bit too loudly when I said, "I'm more sure I can get over someone touching me than I'm convinced the radiation is harmless."

And they didn't send you to Gitmo? That is legal now.

Ivo Shandor: I flew home from SFO yesterday (business trip). After doing the security dance of putting my laptop, shoes, belt, keys, etc. into the little bins and making sure I had no metal on me, I walked through the detector. Some other random beeper went off anyway and I was steered into a little plexiglass cattle chute and left to wait (with no sign of anyone coming to do anything) as the agent turned his attention to the next people in line.

Eventually someone led me out and swabbed my hands for explosive residue or something. Meanwhile the line of bins coming out of the X-ray machine reached the end of the conveyor and overflowed, dumping a couple of laptops onto the ground. The agent picked up one of them, a Macbook Air, and asked if it was mine. I said no of course, but the actual owner was off somewhere else getting his own personal Freedom Fondle so I probably could have just walked away with it.

Liar, you opt for the freedom fondle because it's the closest you've gotten to getting laid in many years...

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that last one, damn. I'm going commando the next time I fly. "Sure officer dropout, I'll drop trow so you can frisk me. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MY DICK! COME ON! STARE AT IT! STARE AT MY DICK YOU GOVERNMENT PATSY! It's what you wanted! Isn't it! That's why you joined the TSA, because you're a homosexual in denial and you want to spend all day looking at COCK! Well here it is, your dream come true. You ordered me to expose myself and I'm doing it!"

I had thought of going with about a hundred people to get naked in the TSA line.

fluffy2097: that last one, damn. I'm going commando the next time I fly. "Sure officer dropout, I'll drop trow so you can frisk me. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MY DICK! COME ON! STARE AT IT! STARE AT MY DICK YOU GOVERNMENT PATSY! It's what you wanted! Isn't it! That's why you joined the TSA, because you're a homosexual in denial and you want to spend all day looking at COCK! Well here it is, your dream come true. You ordered me to expose myself and I'm doing it!"

I'm like Chuck Norris, when I pull down my pants all you see is ANOTHER FIST!