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Airport Cover Up: Company Using Pasties Against Body Scanners
NBC News - Miami ^ | July 28, 2010 | TODD WRIGHT

Posted on 07/28/2010 5:36:57 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

Would a Miami International Airport worker have beaten his coworker to a pulp if his private parts weren't made the butt of jokes because of the new body scanners?

A Las Vegas company claims it has the solution for airport scanner-enduced assaults and undergarment embarrassment with "flying pasties," which are basically small plastic coverings passengers can wear that will protect their goodies from being X-rayed by the body scanners.

Flyingpasties.com says the thick rubber pasties block private areas from scanners and they even come with a little comic relief for TSA workers wondering why they aren't getting the full Monty.

Some pasties for women read, "Only my husband sees me naked." Whether that's a true statement is irrelevant.

Women can order a three-piece privacy enhancer, while men get a one-piece package protector. And fellas, it's a one-size fits all type of deal.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Miami International recently installed body scanners to screen passengers so the company may find a solid customer base in South Florida.


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KEYWORDS: airportscreening; pasties; security
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1 posted on 07/28/2010 5:37:00 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve

Can I get that package protector in 1XL


2 posted on 07/28/2010 5:39:05 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Beaten Valve

When Americans are willing to fly even if it means Government hacks looking at them naked, then we have already lost.


3 posted on 07/28/2010 5:39:14 PM PDT by omega4179 (PREVIEW IS MY FRIEND)
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To: Beaten Valve

It will end soon enough when someone’s flying pasty becomes an exploding pasty.


4 posted on 07/28/2010 5:39:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: al baby

Oddly, the Male ones only come in XL, and Magnum sizes.


5 posted on 07/28/2010 5:39:49 PM PDT by omega4179 (PREVIEW IS MY FRIEND)
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To: Beaten Valve

I want them with the message “*BLANK* YOU!” on them.


6 posted on 07/28/2010 5:40:00 PM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Beaten Valve

A eunuch could hide a small bomb down there.


7 posted on 07/28/2010 5:44:29 PM PDT by Krankor (Boy, giraffes are selfish, just run around looking out for number one, getting hit by lightning.)
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To: Beaten Valve
It might work but it sounds awfully messy...


8 posted on 07/28/2010 5:45:27 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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9 posted on 07/28/2010 5:48:14 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Beaten Valve
Some pasties for women read, "Only my husband sees me naked."

Only because, "I want a full body cavity search" was taken.

10 posted on 07/28/2010 5:53:11 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: omega4179

“When Americans are willing to fly even if it means Government hacks looking at them naked, then we have already lost”

My sentiments exactly, if I can’t drive there I’m not going.


11 posted on 07/28/2010 5:53:50 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/03/report-explosive-implants-a-new-terror-threat

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“Report: Explosive Implants a New Terror Threat”

by IPT News • Mar 24, 2010 at 4:15 pm

SNIPPET: “It sounds like fodder for late-night comics, but reports from Britain indicate terrorists are developing disturbing new methods to smuggle explosives onto airplanes. As the Sun newspaper reports:

“Female suicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.”

This shocking new tactic, which had been previously theorized in the intelligence community, involves surgeons inserting explosives into anatomically correct plastic shapes and sewing them into the bodies of female suicide bombers. According to the Sun, MI5, Britain’s intelligence agency, has also determined that doctors may be sewing similar bombs into the buttocks of some male militants.

The average X-ray machines currently used in airports don’t penetrate the skin, making the properly inserted implants virtually undetectable. The implants would be filled with PETN, the same chemical explosive used by attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and in Richard Reid’s 2001 attempt to blow up an American Airlines transatlantic flight.”

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SNIPPET: “Two women believed to be Chechen rebels blew themselves up in Moscow’s metro during morning rush hour Monday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 100 more.

Law enforcement officials in Washington and New York beefed up security in their respective subway systems in response.

The attacks at Lubyanka and Park Kultyry stations come on the heels of a recent threat assessment issued by the Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.

The Investigative Project has reviewed the sensitive, but unclassified, assessment, Female Suicide Bombers, which puts the attacks in Russia in the context of a broader threat. Referencing open source reporting, the primary finding of the threat assessment is that:

“al Qa’ida terror cells have trained a group of female suicide bombers to attack Western targets including airlines. These women may have a non Arab appearance and may be traveling on Western passports.”

These “bombshells” are part of an evolving terrorist threat challenging U.S. law enforcement to reassess not only the physical and psychological characteristics of terrorists but also the methods available for concealing explosives.”


12 posted on 07/28/2010 5:54:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: al baby

Tripod?


13 posted on 07/28/2010 5:56:52 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Beaten Valve

No offense, the TSA people will see this as people trying to hide weapons. they are that idiotic and zero-tolerance non-thinking. They will force people to remove these things and go back through, or be pat down, wasting more of your time and probably lecturing you about wasting their time and other peoples’.

Proud not to have flown in a plane since November 2001.


14 posted on 07/28/2010 5:59:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Beaten Valve

If the government wants to look at my 71 year old body, they are going to be very disappointed.


15 posted on 07/28/2010 6:01:11 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Man, I haven’t had a good, fresh one of those since we lived in Plymouth, England for a while when I was a kid. Stodgy English food? Maybe so, but oh, so satisfying.


16 posted on 07/28/2010 6:05:52 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: 1rudeboy

full body cavity search

I always send the tsa flowers after that


17 posted on 07/28/2010 6:06:53 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Beaten Valve

And why should citizens be demeaned by having to wear pasties to keep federal employees from looking at their privates? Do you see how far we’ve come?


18 posted on 07/28/2010 6:21:40 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: omega4179

When Americans are willing to fly even if it means Government hacks looking at them naked, then we have already lost.
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Yes we have. What a pathetic bunch we Americans have become.


19 posted on 07/28/2010 6:29:28 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012? You Betcha!)
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To: Krankor
A eunuch could hide a small bomb down there.

0b0z0 wouldn't do that. He has his own plane.

20 posted on 07/28/2010 6:29:45 PM PDT by melancholy
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