Posted on 11/24/2010 1:20:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
"I'm hoping by wearing a bikini they will see everything they need to see and we can avoid a pat-down"
Thousands of passengers are expected Wednesday at LAX, and one came prepared by leaving little to the imagination and TSA agents with even less to pat down. "I'm wearing my bikini," Corinne said as she unbuttoned her overcoat outside the terminal to reveal a black two-piece. "It's not that I'm concerned, it's that I feel like the TSA is making travelers feel uncomfortable, and I feel like we can have security measures that don't make people feel uncomfortable.
"Every time I go through security I always say, 'I don't even know why I got dressed this morning.' I end up taking off belts, jewelry and everthing else off anyway."
"I don't want to do a body scan, and I'm hoping by wearing a bikini they will see everything they need to see and we can avoid a pat-down, as well."
A loosely organized campaign by people opposed to the scanners has been encouraging travelers to opt-out of walking through the body scanners today as a protest of technology some consider overly invasive. But opting out of the scan means passengers will undergo time-consuming, thorough pat-downs by a Transportation Security Administration agent.
About 1.5 million people are expected to go through LAX during the Thanksgiving travel period that began last Friday and ends Sunday.
The body scan takes only about 10 seconds. Those who refuse the body scan are given the option of undergoing an open-palm, up the groin and between- the-breasts pat-down instead.
The mayor seemed ok with it.
"There's been a lot of ado about nothing," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said after going through a scanner earlier this week.
Also known as Advanced Imaging Technology, the refrigerator-sized body scanners hit passengers with low-level x-ray beams to generate an image of their body to detect weapons that might be hidden under their clothing. The image -- which resembles a chalk etching -- is then transmitted to a walled-off location and immediately deleted after being examined by security officers.
I would.
I’m a hands on kind of guy.
TSA: You can’t get on until we get off.
Now you've done it Esther!
The “solution” to the Kobayashi Menu is to sneak in early, and reset the Zero Point on the scale 10 pounds lighter. Kirk, OUT!
Say hello to the green-skinned alien chicks for me.
Argh! Lt Uhura, when I tell you to open a channel, I expect it to be tuned to the correct thread! That was supposed to be a reply to “Kobayashi — I Will Gobble An ENTIRE Turkey!”
Now THAT does border on porn. (snicker)
The ONLY one on this thread who mentioned any children is YOU. You realize that don’t you?
And we know they're telling the truth because...?
-- is then transmitted to a walled-off location
Were we don't know what it looks like and we don't know if they have cell phones to photograph the images
and immediately deleted after being examined by security officers.
And we know they're telling the truth because...?
Considering the government's track record for honesty, they're expecting us to take an awful lot on "faith."
If you think that is porn, you haven’t ever seen porn.
I’m as anti-porn as anyone, but it seems to me that you’re slinging a lot of mud without any purpose. And it seems that you’re criticizing a lot of men for inaction while you carry on the vital work of typing messages into a comment block on FR.
You’re old enough to know better. Go enjoy your holiday and stop making we Christians look bad on this site.
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