Full-body scanner arrives at Minneapolis airport

[gyrfalcon]

Supposedly they installed this ultra cheap device between the parking lot and the terminal...



By AMY FORLITI
updated 2 hours 34 minutes ago

MINNEAPOLIS — Security officials at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport began using a new, high-tech body scanner at one of its checkpoints Wednesday, saying the full-image technology is a critical tool to help head off potential threats.

The full-imaging scanner — the first in Minneapolis — screens passengers for metallic and nonmetallic items, including plastic or chemical explosives and weapons that could be hidden under clothes................

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[ComradeBurg]

Just remember for a while after those machines are brought online you'll get a pat down either way. Whenever these machines are first brought in the TSA pat down everybody who goes through to ensure the machines are in working order. So just jump to the point and opt for the pat down from the get go.

[mmcnx2]

Years ago we had a flight attendand that lived next door and she had 2 solutions to all the airline security issues.

Option one was make everyone stip to to their underwear to board. After all nothing more than you would see at a beach.
Option two was arm every passenger with a pistol.

Either way noone would be able to get away with much on the plane.

[gyrfalcon]

Why exactly do we need all this security with the airlines? Originally terrorists were given carte blanche cooperation in the hopes they didn't kill anyone, and things could be resolved peacefully. Now days I would worry more about the mechanics, baggage handlers, and pilots. Thankfully most of the people who commit terrorist acts are moronic... take the shoe bomber/underwear bombers for example. If they would have used the bathroom they might have actually been successful.

It's not the only moronic thing in society though... lets outlaw pot, so kids start using meth, spraypaint or compressed air to get high. Then lets put restrictions on spraypaint, etc so you get carded buying it... Oh and if you're into Armature Rocketry you might as well bend over too.

[ComradeBurg]

Why exactly do we need all this security with the airlines?

Because humans are poor judges of risk. I'd advise reading this article as it points out quite a few reasons why our species sucks as risk estimation.

[mnmike59]

It's like what John teaches in his classes. Trust your senses, If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. By nature it's built in.

[autobahn]

Ugh. Hate these so much. So much money thrown at such ineffectual measures.

[bstrawse]

The device is at one of the checkpoints, not out between the parking garage and the terminal...

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[Seismic Sam]

Let's all chip in and buy justa a ticket to Fargo or Grand Forks, and see if his electronic "body image" can blow the machine up!!!

[hammAR]

Kill the power................

[Notch]

I'll take the pat down...

I like the pat down...

The pat down is all the action I get...

Besides, that way, only one person knows how out of shape I am right now...

Instead of everyone standing around the monitor...

[gman1868]

[Pat Cannon]

[gman1868]

ROFL

[gyrfalcon]

hmmm.