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Hekate

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42. Women everywhere rejoice. The invasion of privacy was too much...

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 08:16 PM

Jan 2013

... and most of us don't need the extra rads. The fact that jerks could access those pictures and get their jollies from ogling or mocking us was just piling indignity upon indignity to our travels.

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TSA has pulled the plug on the "naked body" scanners. [View all] GoCubsGo Jan 2013 OP

I know people who refused to fly because of those things Hugabear Jan 2013 #1

I refused to go through them Matariki Jan 2013 #37

Good. Laelth Jan 2013 #2

Good riddance. All they did was slow down security anyway. Drahthaardogs Jan 2013 #20

Good effin' riddance indepat Jan 2013 #26

I stand corrected. Drahthaardogs Jan 2013 #29

Best I remember these were bought and installed under a puke regime madokie Jan 2013 #38

My recollection is different. n/t Laelth Jan 2013 #45

So, no more body scans? zappaman Jan 2013 #3

crap, now I'm gonna have to pay for an xray to check 2pooped2pop Jan 2013 #25

There's already a different machine in use, that's been in place pnwmom Jan 2013 #35

Would it still be able to detect something....like...oh say... zappaman Jan 2013 #36

Don't have to worry about that in Colorado and Washington SomethingFishy Jan 2013 #39

I live in Los Angeles so I hear ya. zappaman Jan 2013 #40

Yeah getting on isn't an issue but getting off.. SomethingFishy Jan 2013 #41

Good. Lifelong Protester Jan 2013 #4

Great news! Oilwellian Jan 2013 #5

good. i can start flying again. my inlaws will be so pleased.... shit, there goes one excuse. nt seabeyond Jan 2013 #6

Now I will have to go to the doctor to get my xray liberal N proud Jan 2013 #7

In an unrelated story... freshwest Jan 2013 #8

So much for Skeletor's gravy train... n/t backscatter712 Jan 2013 #9

To be replaced by the millimeter wave fuzzy body scanners. Gormy Cuss Jan 2013 #10

Yes, but now they're showing up wherever they want: Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #11

I always go for the pat down. Not because I get off on it or anything. DAMN! BNow I've said too much Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2013 #12

I do too. It is a free though short massage. nt roody Jan 2013 #21

You know that a TSA dude here at O'Hare asked why I chose the pat down instead of the scanner. Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2013 #24

You could always ask why he's not wearing a dosimeter. GoneOffShore Jan 2013 #28

Ha! Good one. I'll remember that if it happens again. I'm selected for the RapeyScan about 98% of Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2013 #30

Of course they're still using the other machines, GoneOffShore Jan 2013 #32

I have never been asked. I would roody Jan 2013 #44

does that mean I dont have stand in that machine with my hands on my head anymore? srican69 Jan 2013 #13

Don't celebrate yet arikara Jan 2013 #14

So Who Profited On This Deal rsmith6621 Jan 2013 #15

Chertoff Lobbied for It bobduca Jan 2013 #16

Figures that Skeletor would be shilling for Rape-I-Scan... backscatter712 Jan 2013 #19

Boondoggle for repigs bongbong Jan 2013 #17

Oh no. progressoid Jan 2013 #18

Get those things out and don't come back. Initech Jan 2013 #22

I went thru one of those 174 machines yesterday in Nashville. Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #23

Now to get rid of the TSA. GoneOffShore Jan 2013 #27

Why do some TSA workers have to be such a-holes? AntiFascist Jan 2013 #31

Most of the Smurfs are Mall cops who couldn't hold that job down. GoneOffShore Jan 2013 #33

After spending how many millions on them? Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #34

Women everywhere rejoice. The invasion of privacy was too much... Hekate Jan 2013 #42

Yay! dawg Jan 2013 #43