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Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers
Nguyen Van Chau, head of Ho Chi Minh City's Health Department, has revealed that many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City used fever reducers to fool temperature scanners at the airport. The government has confirmed 26 people infected with H1N1 flu, 23 of whom came by air after traveling in the United States or Australia. State media reports that the discovery of these scanner cheaters led to the detection of several infected cases later.
Those bastards, trying to keep their proteins from denaturing! Hang them, hang them high!
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
In other news it was discovered that vampires are able to raise their body temperature high enough to fool heat cameras meant to detect the undead by drinking a gallon of hot coffee right before they pass the cameras.
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
...can someone lend me that cool (but useless) thermal scanner so I can watch that hot girl that lives next door? That would be definitely useful.
Why? So you can look at her delicious kind-of-reddish-coloured breast outlines and those sexy blueish-green thighs?
its second purpose is to discover when lizard people have infiltrated our society
Also, are passengers on stimulants causing false positives?
Absolutely! Though I myself must admit some guilt:
I cheated by asthma by taking Singulaire
I cheated fatigue by visiting Starbucks
I cheated hunger by grabbing a Cinnabon
And I selfishly did all this just before boarding a plane!! Nothing can stop me! Mwah ha ha haaa!
Don't forget, you cheated your depression by taking wellbutrin. And you cheated the calories from the Cinnabon by taking 'themogenic fat burners'.
And then you had a seizure on the plane. :)
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.