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OK, Not True... but WHY Not?
Reaganite Republican
| 09 October 2014
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 10/09/2014 7:42:23 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
An email has been making the rounds for at least 3-4 years which claims the world's best airport security team at Ben Gurion, Israel has deployed a next generation 'simple solution' for a complex problem...
Namely, a special bomb-proof security booth that requires passengers to enter with sealed-doors behind them, as an electronic device detonates any explosives they may have on their person (better hope you left that Bic lighter in the tray!).
And although some seemed to have bought into it, the truth is that the story was long-ago disproven -if Snopes is to be believed, anyway.
I've never travelled to Israel -although was planning to prior to the latest outbreak of war- so I cannot bear witness myself, and no evidence seems to prove it's existence that I can find.
BUT... why not? How else are we going to find bombs of the future, like Semtex or other plastic explosives surgically installed inside a suicide bomber's craven, evil belly?
Mandatory naked colonics/exploratory at massive airport clinics? Full MRI body-scans for every passenger would be the only practical solution I can imagine would ever possibly work, yet at this time requires prohibitive time and expense.
The booth seems a sensible enough solution to me... kill two birds with one stone, you got to love the efficiency AND deterrent effect, particularly if we are wise enough to include pig fat in auto-cleaning mechanism's detergent, and mandate that only female TSA agents operate the control panel.
Perhaps a commercial-size garbage disposal at the bottom of the booth could handle any residual terrorist matter...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: airport; bombs; israel; security
To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...
To: Reaganite Republican
That is actually a good idea. Not only for people, but for cargo.
It would work with any electronically activated device, but it wouldn't work for cruder, non-electronic devices.
Still, a vast improvement over what occurs now.
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posted on
10/09/2014 7:46:02 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
To: DiogenesLamp
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
10/09/2014 7:48:35 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Reaganite Republican
BUT... why not? This... is why not.
The TSA. Touching. Squeezing. Assaulting.
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posted on
10/09/2014 7:53:36 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: moder_ator
To: Reaganite Republican
There is no device I know of that would activate every conceivable bomb trigger. They’re not all electronic, you know. How would a machine trigger a bomb that was wired to a mechical wristwatch, for example? Or even an old-fashioned incendiary fuse?
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posted on
10/09/2014 7:54:12 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
Could we just shake them in there?
To: Brother Cracker
I think I need to steel this for my Sunday toons lol
To: Reaganite Republican
You’re assuming that the Terrorist would use a remote control device. Remote control devices are good when you don’t want to be around when the bomb goes off. But a Terrorist on a plane has already ruled that out. That’s why we call them Suicide Bombers.
So this whole security scheme could be thwarted with 25 cent on/off switch.....sigh
To: Responsibility2nd
Seriously, the Israeli profiling is the part I’d really like to adapt
To: Reaganite Republican
Why not?!?!?
Because this is not a Hotlywood movie. In the real world we simply do not know how to check for/detonate explosives without hurting/killing people NOT carrying explosives.
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:58:42 AM PDT
by
mwilli20
(BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
To: Reaganite Republican
PC is more important than safety.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:00:08 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Reaganite Republican
Or we could just beat a bastinado on their bellies.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:13:55 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Brother Cracker
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:15:37 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: Reaganite Republican
It’s not true because the only way to detonate explosives you’re not sure are present, of unknown type, with unknown trigger mechanism is to put explosives near them and blow THOSE up. And blowing up all your passengers one at a time before they board kind of defeats the purpose of having a plane.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:19:07 AM PDT
by
discostu
(We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
To: Reaganite Republican
Why not? Because it’s not really possible. You can’t electronically detonate just any theoretical explosive that might be on someone’s person.
IF you knew they had explosives, and you knew what the triggering mechanism was, and you knew that it could be triggered by a specific signal on a specific frequency, then you could do it, but if you knew all that, then you could wouldn’t need this booth in the first place.
To: Brother Cracker
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