Inside TSA scanners: How terahertz waves tear apart human DNA

[Flashermac]

"...before he boarded a flight to the US..."

 

Wouldn't that suggest the search happened outside the USA?

 

 

<< Indians were outraged after it emerged that Mr Kalam had been frisked and made to remove his shoes at [color:red]Delhi airport[/color] in April. >>

 

 

As far as I know Delhi is still in India.

 

[LizardKing]

Yes, but there are different security procedures for pax on flights going to the US than to anywhere else IME. Even at Swampy, and Changi, and other places I fly out of.

 

Hence why they blame the airline and/or US rules.

[USVirgin]

Yes, but there are different security procedures for pax on flights going to the US than to anywhere else IME. Even at Swampy, and Changi, and other places I fly out of.

 

Hence why they blame the airline and/or US rules.

 

Indeed, and the strictness of security even varies between airports IME. Inbound, I think Manila is the only airport I had to take my shoes off in the gate area. Definitely US rules put on the airlines, though (no fly list checks being a part of them), with secondary gate security being handled by a contractor.

 

Possibly even differs between airlines at the same airport, such as a US airline and a foreign airline operating out of different terminals at Narita, but I don't know. I'm sure someone here has recent experience of that example.

 

[Flashermac]

Yes, but there are different security procedures for pax on flights going to the US than to anywhere else IME. Even at Swampy, and Changi, and other places I fly out of.

 

Hence why they blame the airline and/or US rules.

 

 

So the Indians were pissed off that their ex-prez got treated like a commoner at an Indian airport? Was he searched by a Harijan?

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners

 

 

Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.

 

He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.

 

"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."

 

But the TSA did miss it, and despite what most people believe about the painstaking effort to screen airline passengers and their luggage before they enter the terminal, it was not that unusual.

 

Experts tell ABC News that every year since the September 11 terror attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert "red team tests," where undercover agents try to see just how much they can get past security checks at major U.S. airports. And while the Department of Homeland Security closely guards the results as classified, those that have leaked in media reports have been shocking.

 

[color:red]According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.[/color]

 

 

 

But they grope all the babes!

 

 

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

[color:red]Strange report.[/color]

TSA agents can tell which testicle is larger 30 out of 32 checks.

 

They do better on breast: they are accurate in telling which breast is bigger 30 out of 31 times.

 

TSA can tell if a woman has an inverted nipple or nipples 49 out of 50.

 

TSA can identify the length of a clit 99 out of 100 times.

 

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TSA can tell if a person has a shit streak in their underwear 199 out of 200 times.

[cavanami]

There was a story...an Aussie was going thru a TSA check point and the TSA folks wanted to do a strip search on him...he said, "...fuck you, I'm not going in to a room with you bunch of homos!"...he then proceeded to jump up on a counter nand drop his pants, saying, "...you want to have a look, so look at my azz!".

 

Don't bother with snopes and it's not true...maybe, maybe not...but a nice story/concept, IMO!

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

I thought you were American, Cav.

[cavanami]

I am an international man of mystery...like Austin Powers...or maybe I really am Austin Powers...