Mr. Tweak-a-Thon.

Why in the world was he asked to PRODUCE A FINGERPRINT to get on an airplane?

I unloaded 40,000 bricks by hand once. No tangible fingerprints for a fortnight or so, but interestingly I did still leave a print from the sebaceous glands which were still there and while follow the patterns of the (missing) prints.

Man, going into the US you have to give everything but a urine test. this guy shouldn't have had to give his fingerprints in the first place.

All people coming in should not be guilty til proven innocent. I feel like this is such a violation of rights.

I remember there's a Dilbert comic where Wally's anscestors bred so that they would produce offspring with no biometric evidence like fingerprints.

Wow, everyone has to undergo through this in US?

On a blog (like it is here), this is interesting. When it's reported all over the major news channels (like it has been the past week or so), one starts to wonder how such a near-inconsequential story gets picked up.

This happened to Mother last year when we were flying in to Newark. She had just finished treatment for breast cancer and her fingerprints didn't match up to homeland security records. She was detained for several hours, but was eventually allowed to proceed after one of the officers on duty said his wife had had the same thing happen to her

When I used to climb 5 days a week, I lost my fingerprints altogether. I always thought it would've been a good time to commit some crime. (Of course, I guess I could just wear gloves for the same effect.)

I hope they don't do this to citizens of the US. I work with a law enforcement agency and I do not take this drug, but I do not have fingerprints. They can get 2 or 3 partials with the laser fingerprint machines, but they don't get even that much with ink. It is a natural condition.