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Bobcat @ 31st Oct 01:37PM:
Re: Airport Security
And when some terrorist gives a bomb disguised as a piece of electronics equipment to some girl he met somewhere, the plane will be blown up because the girl wasn't on any watch list.
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mikedz4 @ 31st Oct 01:55PM:
Re: Airport Security
i'm not saying have no screening just don't make people basically disrobe in order to go through screening. I shouldn't have to take off my belt in order to board an aircraft. What happened to that xray machine you were supposed to be able to go through in order to bypass taking off ur clothes.
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Bobcat @ 31st Oct 02:52PM:
Re: Airport Security
Read the link I provided about security in Colombia.
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NetFixer @ 31st Oct 03:12PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by SUMware :
I was carrying several rolls of slide film (good old Kodachrome 64) and requested a hand inspection to avoid the X-ray scanner (a service typically offered in the US at that time).
The guards hand inspected the rolls but absolutely forbade me to board the aircraft until the film was fed through the scanner. They said that the plane would not wait for me. I 'argued' but was forced to concede as time ultimately ran out. I was the last to board. My slightly discolored slides are an unexpected souveneir of that event.
I had a similar experience in Dallas. I put my film in a clear plastic zipper bag and requested hand inspection (per the posted instructions). The security agent politely took the bag, looked it over and then put it in the xray scanner. I did not even get the chance to argue. This was exposed film, and all the images from a two week backpack trip were fogged and discolored.
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shimonmor @ 31st Oct 03:19PM:
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In 1998 I was flying out of Tel Aviv in Israel and they know how to do security checks. This was before 9/11, of course, but it was the most thorough security check I've been through and I felt safer for it. It was quick, efficient, and run by smart people. While waiting to go through the metal detector, a young lady in uniform (about 25 years old) goes through the line asking people simple questions. What were you doing in Israel? Who did you see? Where are you going? Innocuous questions. But she asked them fast and furious and even repeated a couple of questions to make sure. She was a human lie detector. She made my head spin. I didn't know what hit me and I didn't realize what had happened until I collected all my belongings and my composure at the gate. I think I would have revealed my deepest and darkest secrets if she had asked. It was subtle but effective and once I did collect my composure, I realized that these people know, live and breath security. What we have here in the US is pathetic and should not be called "security" but a circus.
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DrModem @ 31st Oct 05:10PM:
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said by shimonmor :
It was quick, efficient, and run by smart people.
That never happens in the US :p
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uber69er @ 31st Oct 05:16PM:
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said by DrModem :
That never happens in the US :p
What the country or airport security? :D
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OSUGoose @ 31st Oct 05:26PM:
Re: Airport Security
.....................At projecting a false sence of security?
.....................At absoulely nothing
Should i go on?
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OSUGoose @ 31st Oct 05:34PM:
Re: Airport Security
The hassle or lack their of is all airport specific. One aiport will be screaning-natzi's while another let it all go.
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NY Tel @ 31st Oct 06:15PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by mikedz4 :
next time ill go through with no pants on and see what happens.
I tried that once and got a warning for trying to smuggle fruit or something like that. :p
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DrModem @ 31st Oct 06:30PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by uber69er :said by DrModem :
That never happens in the US :p
What the country or airport security? :D
Quick efficient security run by smart people :p
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jwersan @ 31st Oct 06:48PM:
Re: Airport Security
The reality of airport security is that MOST of what we go through is entirely unnecessary, and useless. The tools to effectively screen passengers is denied to security personnel by the "PC" police.....
Profiling.
Profiling will catch MORE "criminals" than all the TSA security.
I'm not saying that all "Arabic" people should be pulled from the line and interrogated, but there are MANY "clues" that profiling will catch, that WILL catch the "criminals" that they are trying to "screen" for in the first place.
The second problem with TSA security is that MOST of the employees are NOT qualified to guard a doghouse let alone our flying safety.
Until they allow TRUE screening by TRAINED screeners, we are no safer than we were PRE 9/11...
If anything we are in even MORE jeopardy...
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mikedz4 @ 31st Oct 07:04PM:
Re: Airport Security
I was talking to the person at the checkpoint in orlando on my way back from disney. Apparently they make less than i do an hour. Something between 7 and 8.50 an hour.
Plus I also realized it won't stop people with mental problems who forgot to take their medicine from doing something stupid. Some lady who obviously forgot to take her medicine got pissed that she couldn't board first and took off her shoes and flung them at the person behind the counter at the gate. She screamed obscenities at the lady for 7 or 8 minutes until tsa people came and pulled her to the side. I swear every passenger at the airport was gathered around watching the spectacle. Why did it take so long for security to get there though? What if she hid a knife in her bra or underwear or had a gun hidden somewhere?
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anon @ 31st Oct 09:15PM:
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public @ 31st Oct 10:30PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by jwersan :
The reality of airport security is that MOST of what we go through is entirely unnecessary, and useless.
That is because you are missing the point. The purpose of the racket is to collect money to keep cronies employed.
The second problem with TSA security is that MOST of the employees are NOT qualified to guard a doghouse let alone our flying safety.
Since they could not find a real job, such cases end up in police departments or "security". That why bushies created "homeland security" in the first place.
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Loco @ 1st Nov 11:06PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by OSUGoose :
Should i go on?
If you feel like rambling on, then sure.....go for it.
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waldoooo @ 4th Nov 07:05PM:
Re: Airport Security
said by lorennerol :
"C4"
"No I won't remove my shoes"
"My virgins await"
"I was in *istan last month"
if they ask you where you are going it probably isn't smart to reply "Paradise", even if you are headed to Hawaii
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