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[Jagshund]

The TSA is expecting to move 2k 'advanced imaging devices' into airports over the next two years.

Someone should screenprint shirts in ink that can be picked up by the machines. Not sure what kind of ink that'd be- no explosive ink is allowed, that's for sure. Although I've decided never to fly again until people come back to reality in regards to this security BS, I'd probably buy a shirt that said "F**k the DHS" just to be happy in the thought that it'd be read should I ever fly again.

Haven't really found anything along these lines yet. If they're out there, post 'em here.

[porsche4life]

Some ink with metallic fragments ought to do the trick... I'm pretty sure that is a magnetic imaging. Just print it on the inside of the shirt...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

It's all fun and games until someone ends up getting a cavity search.

Remember you're dealing with a bunch of absolute power-tripping idiots when it comes to the TSA. That whole "you will respect mah ah-thor-ah-tay" thing runs rampant.

[M.D. Holloway]

Something tells me that it is not in my best interest to piss off the people that can tie me up for hours as I miss my plane! Kinda like complaining to a waiter before I get my meal - just not smart to do!

[porsche4life]

I wouldn't wear it.... It would just be capitalizing on the stupidity of others... If they want to buy it and wear it... Fine...

[cashflyer]

Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself
From: NY Times
JOE SHARKEY, Tuesday November 2, 2010

HAVING been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me. So I was unhappy last week when some security screeners at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago started yelling.

“Opt out! We got an opt out!” one bellowed about me in a tone that people in my desert neighborhood in Tucson usually reserve for declaring, “Rattlesnake!”

Other screeners took up the “Opt out!” shout. I was marched from the metal detector lane to one of those nearby whole-body imagers, ordered to take everything out of my pockets, remove my belt and hold my possessions up high. Then I was required to stand still while I received a rough pat-down by a man whose résumé, I suspected, included experience at a state prison.

“Hold your pants up!” he ordered me.

What did I do to deserve this? Well, as I approached the checkpoints, I had two choices. One was a familiar lane with the metal detector, so I put my bag on that. To my right was a separate lane dominated with what the Transportation Security Administration initially called “whole-body imagers” but has now labeled “advanced imaging technology” units. Critics, of course, call them strip-search machines.

I don’t like these things, and not just because of privacy concerns or because of what some critics have asserted are radiation safety issues with some of the machines that use X-ray technology.

No, I don’t like the fact that I have to remove every item from every pocket, including my wallet and things as trivial as a Kleenex. You then strike a pose inside with your hands submissively held above your head, like some desperado cornered by the sheriff in a Western movie, while the see-through-clothes machine makes an image of your body.

The T.S.A.’s position is that anyone can “opt out” of a body scan for reasons of privacy or whatever, but will then be subjected to a thorough physical pat-down and careful search of belongings.

In my case, I had been routinely using a normal metal detector checkpoint, when I was ordered to switch lanes and instead go to one of the new machines. I said I would prefer not to, given that my carry-on bag, laptop and shoes were already trundling along the regular machine’s conveyor belt, out of sight. That’s when the shouting started.

As of Monday afternoon, the agency had not responded to several requests for comment on this. Last week, the agency did tell me that there were 317 of the advanced imaging technology machines now in use at 65 airports around the country.

About 500 should be online by the end of the year, the agency said, and another 500 are expected to be installed next year. Ultimately, the agency plans to have the new machines replace metal detectors at all of the roughly 2,000 airport checkpoints.

Meanwhile, both passengers and security screeners are making accommodations, and I acknowledge, change is a challenge. But hey, security folks, could we please start communicating better about the procedures, preferably without shouting or insulting our intelligence?

Bruce Delahorne, a marketing executive who flies frequently, said he was also recently going through a standard metal detector at O’Hare — no body imager in sight — when the old rules abruptly changed.

Mr. Delahorne said: “They had one of the T.S.A. staff announcing loudly: ‘Take everything out of your pockets. If you have a wallet, take it out. A handkerchief, out.’ I asked the guy, ‘Can you explain the reason for the new process?’ He said there was nothing new. ‘We have always done this.’ ”

Well, no they haven’t, as you and I and Mr. Delahorne all know. Mr. Delahorne said he thought, “O.K., I get it. This guy is reading from the card, not talking to me.”

So, Mr. Delahorne said, “I did what they told me to. But on the other side of the metal detector, I said to another screener, ‘Could you explain to me why the procedure is now different at this airport, like having to remove a wallet that never set off the metal detector?’ And he said, ‘No, no. The process has always been the same, at every airport.’ ”

Mr. Delahorne said he was perfectly willing to comply with all procedures to ensure good security. He just wondered whether some of them were being made up on the spot. “For me,” he said, “the issue is, who’s in charge here and what are the rules?”

E-mail: jsharkey@nytimes.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Opt-Out-of-a-Body-Scan-Then-nytimes-3016411705.html?x=0

[Zeke]

I won't fly again if I can possibly help it. Last 2 flights I have taken were one in 1999 and a short hopper to pick up my Carrera in San Jose 3 years ago on a commuter jet. I imagine that it's pretty funny to the TSA imaging viewer to see some well endowed female wearing a pile of foam.

[pwd72s]

Milt has the answer. I'm glad there is no place I need to fly to.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Milt has the answer. I'm glad there is no place I need to fly to.

It sucks. I just dropped my wife at the airport. She flies a few times a year. The stories I hear make me cringe. I don't fly not because I don't like planes but because I don't like cattle herds. I don't have tolerance or patience and will yell at someone who deserves to be yelled at.

I know that doesn't go over well around airports and flights. So, to protect myself, I stay away.

I think the tee shirt idea is funny. Makes me wonder what happens when women wear highly decorated blouses and sweaters through the scanner. Lots of metal threads and little studs on some of that stuff. "Take off your blouse!"

OKAY!!!

[Rot 911]

Same here, I just don't fly anywhere. If I wanted to be treated like trash I would ride the bus.

[id10t]

It wouldn't last thru washing, but if you can get a hold of some CT scan contrast, etiher the drinkable stuff or the injectable "dye" ...