One Week to TSA Riots!

[redstapler]

-My dinner last night included a Turkey Mole taco. It was amazing, and I want to go back to eat more of them. Om nom nom nom nom...

-Organ Trail! It's a zombie apocalypse version of Oregon Trail. Can you make it to Portland, OR from the east coast with your team intact?!?

TSA Links

-How Israel would do it. In early 1992, during the First Gulf

Comments

[rosefox]

Why was the father filming this instead of telling his kid to let go of the teddy for two minutes?

Her bear did go through the machine, as I understand it--that separation was part of what made her so upset.

[redstapler]

That would make sense, yes.

[realaustinman]

I, as a person, carry enormous cancer risk.

Lots of us do by genetics or other choices. I'm wondering how many smokers are using that opt-out excuse.

[redstapler]

Ahahahha, that's brilliant.

[alaindan]

After making my way from the East Coast to Portland, I can tell you for sure that it would still have been worth it if I had to deal with zombies on the journey.

[51stcenturyfox]

You know, the more I hear about the TSA full body inspection process, the more I think terrorists are going to find something else to focus on besides commercial aircraft.

You know, like putting bombs in copiers on cargo aircraft. Call me nuts!

I don't particularly dread x-rays or a TSA agent touching me, but it's a huge focus on one threat area versus others, which seems short-sighted.

[redstapler]

Agreed.

Which, also, is one of the points of the Israeli security article.

[brewsternorth]

And thanks for that article! One thing it does seem to overlook: that many of these layers of security at Ben-Gurion consist primarily of highly trained people, operating a fairly small quantity of technology.

The US/Canadian equivalents have a much smaller number of relatively less trained people, but the lobbyists and vested interests in their respective governments are making a mint out of the much larger amount of technology being deployed - both the WBI scanners and the other bomb-detecting gear I've seen around even in NYC subway stations. Hard to get an ROI on a half-dozen human layers of security that have to be trained, paid, armed, monitored, etc.

[redstapler]

*nod*

As I said in the post: Israel has a compulsory military situation, Canada and the US don't.

So while any given Israeli will have the barest, most basic training to report to the ISA, we just don't have those percentages.

;)

[wench33]

I totally stole the title of this post for my FB "quote of the week".