Airport Security

[1MPH]

Great Idea.



FINALLY ? A great alternative to body scanners at airports . . .

The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.

It?s a booth you step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with no racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of a long and expensive trial. Justice would be swift. Case closed!

You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, an announcement comes over the PA system:

"Attention standby passengers ? we now have a seat available on flight number XXXX. Shalom!"

[jamming]

Sounds like a great idea!! As far as I'm concerned if you look like a Muslim, act like a Muslim or smell like a Muslim you need a detailed background check AND you get strip searched BEFORE your ass gets on the airplane. Screw political correctness, ever tried to get on an airplane in any other country? It's NOT a right you get to fly. Correct me if I'm wrong but it wasn't any other religion but them that attacked us. If you don't like it then don't fucking fly.

[panthercity]

Do all Muslims, look alike? And act alike? And smell the same?

[jamming]

Do all Muslims, look alike? And act alike? And smell the same?


I'm sorry..I meant it as a tonge in cheek comment.

[Dirty Doug]

I remember a show on " All in the family " where Archie had a great idea about airplane security. His idea was that the only thing the bad guys had over the passengers was they were armed. His solution to the problem was to issue all ticket holders a weapon when they got on the plane then have them drop it in a basket when they got off therefore removing the upper hand, if you will, of the bad guys. You gotta' love a guy with that kind of reasoning.

Dirty Doug

[NoRRmad]

Hm... All in the Family went off the air in 1979, and the followup show, Archie Bunker's Place ended in 1983. I assume you could pack heat on an airplane no problem back then.

(Boy, it's really been that long. How times have changed.)

[Donson]

Boy, the way Glenn Miller played,
songs that made the Hit Parade,
Guys like Us, We had it made,
Those were the days......

[socalrob]

Hm... All in the Family went off the air in 1979, and the followup show, Archie Bunker's Place ended in 1983. I assume you could pack heat on an airplane no problem back then.

(Boy, it's really been that long. How times have changed.)

No, you could not. They even xrayed carryons back then. I remember going through screening with my ex-wife in about 1980. We had recently moved, and I guess she had stashed kitchen knives in her carryon during our move, and forgotten to get one knife out of the bottom of the bag when we were done moving. About a year later I just about died when a security person pulled a huge kitchen knife out of the bottom of her carryon. Nothing happened, I guess we did not look criminal enough.

They packed up the knife & gave it back at the end of the flight.

[NoRRmad]

Oh, riiiight! There were hijackings long before 9/11.

Funny Story. Back in the '60's, my father, who had served for years as a commercial pilot, was flying to Washington D.C. and was sitting in the front of the shuttle. The door to the cockpit was open, and after a while, Dad stood and walked into the cockpit. Nobody noticed. He stood there for a few minutes, then said to the crew, "OK, gentlemen, now we go to Cuba." Both pilots spun in their seats and the look on their faces made him raise both hands, and back out of the cockpit. "Joke! Joke! Joke!" he said, and went back to his seat. Dad realized it wasn't so funny, and so did the FBI agents who met him at the jetway after they landed.

I sit corrected.

[socalrob]

Oh, riiiight! There were hijackings long before 9/11.

Funny Story. Back in the '60's, my father, who had served for years as a commercial pilot, was flying to Washington D.C. and was sitting in the front of the shuttle. The door to the cockpit was open, and after a while, Dad stood and walked into the cockpit. Nobody noticed. He stood there for a few minutes, then said to the crew, "OK, gentlemen, now we go to Cuba." Both pilots spun in their seats and the look on their faces made him raise both hands, and back out of the cockpit. "Joke! Joke! Joke!" he said, and went back to his seat. Dad realized it wasn't so funny, and so did the FBI agents who met him at the jetway after they landed.

I sit corrected.

Well, at least the joke didn't cost him prison time like it would these days. Maybe we are all wound just a bit too tight. I bet the butcher knife in my ex's carryon would earn a trip to a windowless room these days too.