Thursday, November 25, 2010

Who need body scans? Passengers beat the TSA by stripping off BEFORE they go through airport security






One female passenger arrived at the airport in Los Angeles this morning wearing nothing but a black coat and a bikini.
'It's not that I'm concerned,' the woman, named only as Corinne, told local media outside LAX.
'It's that I feel like the TSA is making travellers feel uncomfortable, and I feel like we can have security measures that don't make people feel uncomfortable.
'Every time I go through security I always say, "I don't even know why I got dressed this morning." I end up taking off belts, jewellery and everything else off anyway.'
'I don't want to do a body scan, and I'm hoping by wearing a bikini they will see everything they need to see and we can avoid a pat-down, as well.'
Meanwhile a male passenger named only as Jimmy had a similar idea in Salt Lake City.
The college student posted video of himself on YouTube passing through security after stripping down to only a pair of Speedos.
And he went one further than Corinne, with body paint on his back that spelled out the words: 'Screw Big Sis'.
Meanwhile an aspiring porn star filmed herself stripping to her underwear at Seattle-Tacoma airport.
The woman, known only as 'Furrygirl', arrived at Seattle's Sea-Tac airport to board her flight on Sunday.
There she told startled TSA officials that she was 'going to enjoy this experience as much as I can, instead of being scared and humiliated like the TSA wants me to be.' 


(Terrorists) are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through.'
Many travellers had threatened to boycott the stringent airport security measures as part of a National Opt Out Day organised by a number of protest websites.
Any such protests - coupled with widespread snow and storms - would have led to major disruption for Thanksgiving passengers.
But reports from airports across the U.S. today suggested passengers had chosen not to take part in the planned protests.
A government official told Fox News that most screening lines were taking less than 10 minutes.
The station reported that Reagan National Airport in Washington DC had virtually no delays while at Los Angeles International Airport passengers were only having to wait five minutes.
Meanwhile waiting times at Tampa were under 20 minutes and Salt Lake City International Airport had no lines at all.
Despite the national furore, some passengers were happy to undergo the stringent checks.
LAX passenger Dennis Gossard, 63, from Glendale, California, told CNN: 'They can pat me down for three hours if it's going to save someone's life.'
The apparent calm at U.S. airports followed the head of the Transport Security Administration's (TSA) plea to passengers not to boycott airport body scans.
John Pistole has said he understood public concerns about privacy in the wake of the TSA's tough new airline boarding security checks

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