The Phoenix airport on Friday became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people’s clothes and show the body’s contours with blush-inducing clarity.
Neon Lite
The Yank “terrorist” paranoia escalates to a new low. Too damn funny. :~)
Robert
At present, it’s intended for secondary screening. Would you rather this or being patted down?
astanhope
Homeland Security Hysteria:
Arabs hijacked planes on 9/11, therefore we need to push the technology envelope in order to see naked bodies underneath clothing at airports.
Also, bottled water is disallowed – terrorists fly thirsty.
Anita
Certainly doesn’t paint the subject in the best light. I doubt anyone will be selling the videos under the adult category on ebay (or maybe they will, sickos).
Aramax
You could make a bomb out of water… think about it!
They should also disallow air since the H-bomb has been invented.
All I know is that I wont be taking the plane to go places anytime soon. And if I do I would fly solo.
Britt
It’s not as though planes are the only things people blow up. Good grief, why not just hide under the bed for eternity? I’ll take my chance on the plane.
Acedia
Since this “x-ray” only seems to show the outside of the body (not bones) would it even show a gun or weapon secreted say “between the cheeks” or in an orifice? If not, isn’t it kind of pointless?
Speaking as someone who was forced to run the entire length of an airport to get a new baggie because the baggie I’d put my specially purchased 3 oz liquids in was not the correct size (but who later found that in the confusion of transferring them to the regulation size baggie that a whole slew of little containers of “undeclared liquids” had gone through the scanner in my carry on AND NO ONE EVEN NOTICED OR CARED!) the way our country has handled this situation makes us look like tantruming, brain-damaged toddlers — lots of activity, not much sense.
Acedia
Just for the record, the asterisks above blocked a medical term for a bodily opening…not anything rude (despite the fact that the letter count could work for either!) ROFLM*O!
ted
Now I’m wondering what the medical term was.
And about the whole “best light” of the poor naked man – you never know what it might look like when it’s ready for action.
The article says “your doctor sees you naked all the time”. I doubt that airport security staff will be as professional about it as doctors.
I predict a lot of ladies going through these things.
Marvin The Magnificent
It’s worse than this in the UK.
The government are drawing up plans to introduce this sort of scanner in street lamposts.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6309917.stm
I’ve had to take to lining my underpants with tin-foil.
Marvin The Magnificent
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