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Originally posted by racerzeke
and how come you have to take your shoes off?
the metal detector cant see plastic explosives so whats stopping you from putting plastic explosives in your pocket?
my p2 is all modded and I put led lights and stuff and its a square thing with wires all over and i wasnt stopped.
sorry i dont know where to post this, and im concerned because i flew recently and all i could think about was how low the security seemed to be.
Originally posted by Cug
The X-ray machines make things pretty clear. and despite impressions to the contrary the TSA screeners are trained vigorously. The supervisors try and slip fake bombs/guns/etc.. past the screeners, and most of the X-ray machines also put fake threat images over a image of a real passangers bags. you hit the threat button and the machine will tell you that it was a test image. Not to mention you were tested all the time, if you failed the test you could not operate the X-Ray machine.. if you kept failing you lost your job.
Originally posted by racerzeke
but they never wipe your body? before the shoe bomber took shoes through the metal detector, so now you put that through the xray, but what is stopping you from puttin the same thing in your jeans or shirt or hat? wont it make it through the metal detector just like the shoe bomber did?
Originally posted by Voxel
Say someone on the inside programmed the machine to announce real threats as "test" when the button was pushed during a specific time interval on a specific day.
sorry i dont know where to post this, and im concerned because i flew recently and all i could think about was how low the security seemed to be.
Originally posted by TheStarMan
No offense, but I doubt many of these people have above a high school diploma, or a GED. I don't care how many hours of training these people are put through, that doesn't mean they comprehend it, and are able to discern a well hidden threat such as a bomb wired into a ps2 from a modified ps2.
Heck, my wife wen't through with a bottle of mace.
Originally posted by Cug
Originally posted by TheStarMan
No offense, but I doubt many of these people have above a high school diploma, or a GED. I don't care how many hours of training these people are put through, that doesn't mean they comprehend it, and are able to discern a well hidden threat such as a bomb wired into a ps2 from a modified ps2.
Dude, you are you calling me a uneducated buffoon? Training does not prove they comprehend things... Testing does, and they are tested quite a bit. A playstation with explosives in it would be easy to spot, box cutters on the other hand are really hard.
OK you have about 5 sec how many threats are in this bag?
Heck, my wife wen't through with a bottle of mace.
Cool your wife is a felon.
[edit on 7/23/2007 by Cug]