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Those comments on Boing Boing are hysterical.
The “gropee” in the picture above resembles Mr. Bill, the playdough man from Saturday Night Live. Appropriate.
http://boingboing.net/201011111141.jpg
TSA the gift that keeps on giving…
Seriously, they’re succeeding at killing the appeal of the aviation industry’s large carriers.
The TSA will single handedly succeed where draconian oil prices failed.
Don’t worry about Boeing, Airbus, Locheed Martin, EADS or COMAC (the last two are Russian and Chinese competitors,) going out of business though.
There are lots of military contracts to be had and plenty of private aviation business like FedEx, UPS, DHL and several other parcel services which will survive this implosion.
Between the radiation hazards of the scanners and the humiliation at the hands of semi-simian screeners, look for airport expansion to suddenly stop as airline travel loses all of its appeal.
Eventually the value of the runway will be as “tabula rasa” development land. Too bad its going to be toxic for decades unless they burn off the “skid marks”.
I’m not jumping on the reactionary hysteria bus about the TSA. I’ve been frisked a bunch of times in international airports … it’s no big deal.
What bugs me more is the “terror profiteering” that privatization of government services has given us.
Sometimes I wish someone would frisk me. It might get the ol’ blood flowing again.
Its a bit suspect as the “odds” are from “calculating” the xray exposure rather than actually MEASURE it? Nonetheless:
“While the risk of getting a fatal cancer from the screening is minuscule, it’s about equal to the probability that an airplane will get blown up by a terrorist, he added. “So my view is there is not a case to be made for deploying them to prevent such a low probability event.”
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5477568-are-airport-x-ray-scanners-harmful
On the upside, high speed rail will be in high demand.
Shut up Slaves!
@Daniel
You think there wont be the same sort of checks?
A psycho knifed someone on a Canadian greyhound bus last year and there were immediate calls for airport style security at every bus stop
How about killing two birds with one stone and give people breast and prostate exams at the sometime
Trains good, planes bad (Whoo hoo!)
@Greg “I’ve been frisked a bunch of times in international airports ..it’s no big deal”
Although if you are a senator, I think you have to resign
@msbpodcast: EADS is not a Russian company (ok, Russians bought just a 5% stake).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS
for a good time take a flight!
I think we should all relax and ask for more groping with our coach class tickets. I’m all for casual petting at airports. Now, if ONLY they’d allow me to pick the TSA bimbo/jimbo to feel me up, and I’d be a happy girl.
TSA? Or T&A?
http://cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/15/politics/main7057902.shtml
If you believe CBS News (and not even Dab Rather does, anymore) 80% of us LOVE being scanned nekkid.
Someone should graffiti cabs, buses trans and the airports with this stuff!!
They started to grope citizens at the airports. I did not say anything, for I do not fly much.
Then they groped citizens at the train stations. I did not say anything, for I do not ride trains much.
Then they groped citizens at the city, state, and federal government buildings. I did not say anything, for I do not enter government buildings much.
Then one day I had need to enter a government building, but to my dismay I discovered I was no longer permitted to enter government buildings. They would take care of government for me, they said, and they told me I should just return home, and be happy and safe in their care. They told me many people are just like me, not to worry.
They told me I could also try to apply for a waiver at the county government building next door.