UK Airport worker oogles colleague in naked airport body scanner machine.

[rcrush]

A HEATHROW security man was quizzed by police after ogling a girl colleague "naked" in a new anti-terror body scanner.
Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, after he took her picture with the X-ray gadget and made a lewd comment.

The pervy guard leered and told her: "I love those gigantic t**s."

She had entered the X-ray machine by mistake - and was horrified when Laker pressed a button to take a revealing photo.

They were brought in by the Government after the Christmas Day underpants bomber tried to blow up a flight to Detroit.
They produce full-body "nude" images of passengers to locate hidden weapons or explosives. This includes clear outlines of genitalia.
Opponents of the scanners, including anti-paedophile groups, have furiously condemned their use.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2904943/Airport-security-guard-John-Laker-ogled-woman-colleague-in-body-scanner.html#ixzz0j7nnHMiT

[gratuitous]

1. NOBODY could have foreseen this

Well, unless you have the most rudimentary understanding of human nature. But it will never, e-e-e-ever happen again. Pinky swear.

[lunatica]

2. I'm shocked! Who would have thought this would happen?!

She should just shut up and take the compliment.

:sarcasm:

[indepat]

16. Yeah, who would'a thunk it? Might be interesting should images of a few VIPs, be it government,

industry, or the entertainment world, show up on the internet revealing the whole garbanzo. :-)

[tranche]

3. "horrified when Laker pressed a button"

Great. Gotta love when the administrators of this garbage fear it.

[walldude]

13. What's with this press the button crap?

They built these and allowed them to build in photo taking? What the fiuck? Did TMZ design these things?

[immoderate]

19. It's called "video memory."

Creating such a machine without this capability would be a challenge, I think.

--imm

[Occulus]

22. Not really. Design it such that each image is stored in a specific memory location

and then flush that memory location between the time each photo is taken.

This strikes me as CS101 type stuff. And yes, I know just enough about computer code to know this is not only possible, but fucking easy.

[backscatter712]

35. Yeah, it's be nice if the software in those scanners were designed that way...

but they weren't.

They were designed explicitly to store images, and have software functions that let you save images. Yeah, the TSA promises they won't use such functionality. Yeah right.

[Deep13]

4. Even apart from privacy issue...

...there is not way on this formerly green Earth that I am going to submit to a non-medical X-ray.

[Hekate]

5. Hope you enjoy the manual body cavity search then. Good Lord I hate these bastards. nt

[seabeyond]

7. manual body cavity search WTF. the scanners dont do a cavaity search. all one has to do is insert

and walk thru the scanners.

are you suggesting if we dont get naked for the cameras we get a glove up us?

then they had better have the glove ready for all that walk out of that useless scanner

[Deep13]

11. It's not really for detection. It's for making people afraid.

Making normal people afraid of authority and making them feel like something is being done. And making potential terrorists afraid of detection. It is the appearance of surveillance as a deterent and not surveillance itself. Kind of like when one sees a mirrored dome on the ceiling of a retail store. "They're watching us!" Except most of the time those domes have no cameras in them.

[seabeyond]

14. to dehumanize and criminalize as a whole. to have us all two steppin together, head down,

no eye contact, tail between legs...

i hear ya

and we as a whole willfully and appreciate participate in cowardly sheep like behavior

[arcadian]

6. Thanks John Laker

You are doing a great job for those who are against these machines. Keep it up!

[Arkansas Granny]

8. I'm not condoning her coworker's actions, but I'd like to know how

she entered the x-ray machine by mistake. Is it not marked and shouldn't airport personnel be aware of what the equipment is? Maybe the story is just badly reported, but something sounds a little strange to me.

[rcrush]

9. Here is what one of them looks like.

Appears as if she could have just walked in front of it.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. In that case, I guess it could have happened like she said. I had seen

reports about the machines on TV and the examples they showed looked like a small booth or something that you had to enter.

[Occulus]

23. That's FAKED. The photo doesn't match the man's pose.

Look at his hands, and then at the hands in the image. The angles in the image are all wrong (look at the lines between the forearm and the wrist, in particular)- and the body in the image is perfectly symmetrical, besides. That screenshot is a fake designed for public consumption!

[gmoney]

26. well, the scan could be from a few seconds earlier

I'm guessing it would grab a still, rather than be video feed... but it wouldn't surprise me if it's faked. The guy in the photo looks stockier than the alien grey figure on the screen... hey, wait a minute!

[rcrush]

27. What about this one?

I don't know where they are supposed to put the monitor at but it looks like the scanner looks like a wall and someone COULD possible walk in front of it accidentally.

[ManiacJoe]

32. That one is also faked.

The pose does not match the screen image.

[guitar man]

10. This thread

is useless wi.....

oh fuck it, I'm sick of this old gag!

:D

[seabeyond]

15. ya. and as once again a womans right to privacy and decency is invaded, we woman

are pretty damn sick of it too

[Hubert Flottz]

17. I wondered where Larry Craig went to work...

[MilesColtrane]

18. "oogles"?

Those wacky Brits.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. 'ogles', not a double o

The double o was a mistake by the thread starter.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Ah, the irony of The Sun calling the guard 'pervy', when it publishes topless photos every day

The exact reaction they want from their male readers is leering and "I love those gigantic t**s." Bunch of bloody hypocrites.

[daleo]

24. Now that Taliban plastic surgeons are out there

Putting explosive breast implants into women, will these machines really keep us safe (he says, cowering in fear)?

(according to a Daily Telegraph story today).

[gmoney]

25. What happened to the screen being in a different room from the scanner?

The idea was it would be on the other side of the airport or something, so the person monitoring the screen would have no idea who was in the scanner. Of course, some genius probably put a regular video camera/monitor in there to defeat that idea.

[951-Riverside]

31. They lied.

Just like they're lying about the images not being stored.

[Winterblues]

28. What would God think about people seeing others naked?

:shrug: Appalled I am sure.

[seabeyond]

33. so how others may feel doesnt matter. since you are not opposed to getting naked for all. about

how this man interpreted the invasion of this woman when he hit the button.

[DCBob]

29. Oh dear.. that's just terrible..

Can I see the photo so I can fully evaluate the merits of the complaint.

[Soylent Brice]

30. K&R

[backscatter712]

34. I TOLD YOU SO!!!

All the cop wannabes here on DU said it would never happen.

All of them said "But the picture's blurry!" or "But security professionals would never abuse this!"

Guess what. Somebody just abused a body scanner to look through a person's clothes and ogle her.

I want you to say it. I want you to admit that you were fucking wrong, now that the proof of body-scanner abuse is right here in front of your eyes.

But you won't, because you're bullying cowards. You engender in me nothing but utter contempt. Fuck you.

[Hekate]

36. The photos of scans I've seen are visibly retouched to "white-out" nipples and genitals....

Another image that shocked me more because of how it revealed the power of this so-called minimal radiation revealed the shin bones in the legs.

I don't think women of child bearing age should be required to step through these contraptions at all. They might not know they are pregnant -- or they may not want to reveal that they are, for very good private reasons.

Honestly, the next step is going to be to have us all strip down and walk through cattle chutes. They'll have to have Temple Grandin design them so we remain calm and don't stampede.

Hekate

[backscatter712]

37. Hey, I go to Colorado State!

Temple Grandin's awesome!

[Hekate]

38. Yes she is -- I admire her work very much.

otoh -- moooooo.

[Festivito]

39. But the politically connected seller made lots of MONEY.

So, shut up and move along, there's nothing to see here. Well, kind of nothing to see here. Well, oh, wow, come see this. Whew boy! Hubba hubba. Yowzer.