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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Transportation / ??!! D-F-W T-S-A M-O-U-S-E

Posted by Goldy on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:52 AM

Note to self: next time I plan to hijack an airplane, leave the box-cutter and underwear bomb at home, and simply hide a gun in my crotch:

An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration.

The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said.

If only somebody could invent a technology that could detect metal.

Of course, TSA officials insist that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the porno scanners:

TSA agents who spoke to a reporter agreed that the body-imaging scanners are effective — but only if the officers monitoring them are paying attention.

Well, duh-uh. Which is why the best way to smuggle a weapon onboard, as always, remains hiding one in your carry-on luggage.

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Americans are such wimps about terrorism. Certain precautions need to be taken but people need to accept that at a certain point you just have to shrug your shoulders and say "If it happens, it happen."

Posted by Ken Mehlman on February 20, 2011 at 9:11 AM

I've read that the Canadian airport scanners have the millimeter wave and not the backscatter Xray scanners like at Sea-Tac. Is Sea-Tac too impoverished to afford millimeter wave scanners, or is it US government policy to give people cancer and deny funding for cancer screening?

Posted by Americans never get cancer on February 20, 2011 at 9:51 AM

Had she brought on a 6 oz container of shampoo though they'd have shot her dead in the terminal.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on February 20, 2011 at 10:46 AM

Hey, I finally get the headline!
Acronym jokes = Good stuff.
There oughta be a road show, maybe a tv series, dare I dream: an indie film?

Posted by NotSean on February 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM

I'll bet if she was of Middle Eastern descent, they'd have looked at the images more closely.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 20, 2011 at 12:44 PM

Note: they said "in her undergarments."

Since they're just body surface scans, a large breasted woman can hide anything they want up under the fold of their tit and not have it be detected at all. Big enough girl and you could smuggle a Glock up in there!.

(I've actually seen this happen while doing pat downs at a club; a girl jumped up & down when her friend joined her in line and -- OOPS! -- her pipe & stash fell out from under her titties right in front of me!)

Posted by Timrrr on February 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM