Patdown Procedures Modified for Women

[On the Road]

WASHINGTON - In response to numerous complaints from women, the government has ordered airport security personnel to avoid touching female passengers between their breasts when performing patdowns.

Security screeners now will keep their hands to the "chest perimeter" of women unless detection equipment picks up the possibility that they are hiding explosives between their breasts.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/airport_security

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Chest perimeter? Explosives? I'm sorry, but all I can think of is the Hungarian-English dictionary: "My breasts explode after midnight."

[underpants]

1. Does anyone else find those news reports strangely arousing

or is it just me?

[On the Road]

2. Dupe

Was beaten to the punch:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1094588

[Bertha Venation]

3. If I am searched at the airport, they are going to LOOK, not touch.

I swear to god I will strip rather than let anyone put his or her hands on me.

[el_gato]

4. the whole thing is bullshit Bertha

It is no accident the government is treating it's own citizens and the enemy. For in reality, the people in control view the citizens of this country as the enemy.

[Bertha Venation]

5. Damn right you are, el gato.

So one of the small ways I will retain my control of my country is to say "look, I realize you are just doing your job. But god dammit, your job is an extension of a government I loathe, and if by stripping instead of letting you 'pat me down' I get their attention just a little bit, that's what I'm going to do!! Now, do you need to use a speculum? Just show me to the stirrups."

Yeah, this whole thing makes me a little mad.

[underpants]

6. I heard that some college students have taken to wearing pajamas

and sending their clothes through the scanner and then they change in the bathroom on the other side-putting their jammies in their carry on.


You are right it is BS.