This could be an interesting thread.
Your thoughts ladies?
[Don't ask me how I know this]
Underwire bras, steel-toe boots, the foil in packages of cigarettes, prosthetic hips or knees, all those can set off a metal detector. It's not that reliable or controllable a technology, it's just an "aid". Would the little lady prefer to be patted down?
The way it works is we ask somebody to go through the detector a couple or three times. If it continues to give an alarm, we ask them to face away from us and we pass the wand over them. We check if the likely harmless metal does indeed set off the alarm and then we check to see that there is nothing else on the person which also sets off the alarm. The "wanding" takes maybe 5 seconds.
People like this are always comparing the imperfect actual to the perfect but unobtainable. If we had PILES of money we could have both a male and female deputy at the detector. Heck we could have one of whatever imaginable or unimaginable sex the citizenry wanted. We could have itty-bitty alcoves so that Ms. Underwire wouldn't have to be wanded in front of folks.
But in the real world we have a judge and a sheriff who want people scanned before they come into court, we have barely enough deputies to put one at the metal detector, and we do our best. At least once a day (on average) somebody tries to come in with a knife or a handcuff key or contraband to slip to a prisoner. My personal favorite was the guy who came with a nicely rolled doobie in his cigarette pack. One time a lady blew by with a .38 special in her purse. When she was restrained she informed the deputy that her plan for the day was to come to court and kill her husband. Maybe it's a good thing the judges and the sheriff want the metal detector....
Hey lady, no one likes taking their shoes off in the middle of an airport, or having their briefcases rifled through by slack-jawed yokels, but these are the times we live in.
SD
This woman is probably flattering herself too much.
"It is, at a minimum, for a woman, embarrassing. And at a maximum, it is sexual harassment to hold your arms outstretched while a male officer waves a wand in front of your breasts," Fletcher told supervisors at their meeting Tuesday.
Good grief.
"It is, at a minimum, for a woman, embarrassing. And at a maximum, it is sexual harassment to hold your arms outstretched while a male officer waves a wand in front of your breasts"
Bill Clinton has a new job?!?
What kind of wire is this? #2 rebar?
Just joking.
"Men just don't get it," Fletcher told the supervisors.
Metal detectors, like any other instrumentation, are calibrated using a standard min and max. So wire in a bra, counters in a shoe or change in a pocket that meet or exceed the calibration standard will, correctly, initiate an alarm.
Mrs. Fletcher is the one that "don't get it".