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This is getting really ridiculous! Prepare to be fondled (think testicle groping, men) while going through security, unless you wear tight pants! I'm almost tempted to buy a fake penis and stuff it in my pants and see their reaction as they grab it! (I'm female)
In fact, I'm really tempted to get one and go through the scanner, then come out and adjust while looking at the screener's face.
this is getting really ridiculous! Prepare to be fondled (think testicle groping, men) while going through security, unless you wear tight pants! I'm almost tempted to buy a fake penis and stuff it in my pants and see their reaction as they grab it! :d (i'm female)
in fact, i'm really tempted to get one and go through the scanner, then come out and adjust while looking at the screener's face.
You have no idea how tempted I am! My friend said I should do that, and put a piece of masking tape on my butt that says, "Feel Safer Yet?" So tempted!
First it says that the TSA agent was embarrassed and apologetic at having to carry out the orders of his superiors, and in the next sentence the traveler refers to him as a thug.
The issue is NOT the average TSA agent. Do you really think they get a kick out of this?
Wow, so the TSA uproar is for no...small reason then? I guess the TSA agents are between a rock and a..hard place. OK, that was flip but there is a lot of negativity around TSA practises at the moment. With a hectic holiday season coming up, I'm wondering just how extreme it'll get.
Right, I'm off to review my wardrobe choices then! (not too optimistically).
First it says that the TSA agent was embarrassed and apologetic at having to carry out the orders of his superiors, and in the next sentence the traveler refers to him as a thug.
The issue is NOT the average TSA agent. Do you really think they get a kick out of this?
This being his first inside the pants grope he isn't used to it. But human nature being what it is he will. Someone complains and makes trouble when he's not feeling embarresed and what does he resemble when he falls back on his power?
We're handing personal power to humiliate people who did nothing to people who might work at Walmart or Mac Dees otherwise and do we really want to make them into what they might? Do REAL Security. Have highly trained people who don't need to undress the public or stick hands anywhere they shouldn't be. Its done. Send the TSA inspectors off to a job where they can't have power trips because that is what they are being handed at the public's expense.
Or, just stand in the scanner for a few seconds, then proceed to your gate.
Nah, taking the simple way doesn't provide fuel for outrage.
In the past month I have gone through security over 20 times. Would you want to be radiated over 20 times per month?
It is easy to be flippant about the situation when you are an infrequent flier.
I should also add that when the machines show anomalies, the people who get scanned get the aggressive pat down anyway, which I have seen roughly 1/3 of the time. No one wins.
Edited because my simple math was wrong. See, and that's without being radiated frequently!
First it says that the TSA agent was embarrassed and apologetic at having to carry out the orders of his superiors, and in the next sentence the traveler refers to him as a thug.
The issue is NOT the average TSA agent. Do you really think they get a kick out of this?
"Just floowing orders" is not an excuse. I think I heard something about that at the Nuremberg trials.
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(I'm female)
OK, that was flip but there is a lot of negativity around TSA practises at the moment. With a hectic holiday season coming up, I'm wondering just how extreme it'll get. 
