[Travis McGee]

If some cretin in a security uniform feels free to grab my wife's breasts in front of a line of people in an airport, I am going to feel free to throw that cretin over the xray machine to the next concourse.

And when I get out of jail, I might start digging up the serious iron.

That is where this lunacy is taking us.

[pupdog]

That is where this lunacy is taking us.

Seriously: when every single violation of a person's body or property is met with, "Well duh, if you had just bent over it wouldn't have hurt so bad!", we've gone over the edge and are falling into a very dark chasm.

I personally agree with the closing line in this piece. Me and my wife just decided on a timetable for having children, and they are most definitely going to get acquainted with some nice upstanding young men named Jefferson and Franklin.

[BigBobber]

OK, you're a macho guy. Now tell us all what level of security you think we need at airports and how it would be carried out.

[general_re]

I suggest, first off, that the article posted here is necessarily one-sided, representing this man's particular spin on whatever it was that happened in that airport on that day. Obviously, the security guard's version differs somewhat. Like most cases, the truth probably lies somewhere between the two versions.

Second, I am not enamored of the idea of mouth-breathers groping women indiscriminately either, but I also recognize that there is a vested interest in acting to insure the safety and welfare of passengers, not least because the slight inconvenience to the hundred or so passengers might very well prevent the deaths of several thousands on the ground. I think there is a happy medium between perverts feeling up your wife in the boarding queue, and no security at all.

[exodus]

Ditto, my friend.