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TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident
A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after he attacked a co-worker for making fun of the size of his genitals. Rolando Negrin walked through one of the new body scanners during a recent training session and a supervisor started making fun of his manhood. From the article: "According to the police report, Negrin confronted one of his co-workers in an employee parking lot, where he hit him with a police baton on the arm and back."
If you just shrugged it off then only your coworkers would know you have a small dick. Now the whole world knows.
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If the institute this system I give it a month before we start seeing real "naked" pictures of celebrities online taken with the TSA employee's camera phones.
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So much for the obfuscation that's promised. Or maybe it was obfuscated and they just decided to pick on him.
So, they can't even this technology in regards to each other, and we're supposed to believe they won't behave the same (or worse) when confronted with the public at large being forced to expose themselves in these things?
Really?
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The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone.
That depends on what your packing. To be strip searched for fear of hiding a club in your pants, and then finding out the club shaped item is stock equipment wouldn't be emasculating or demeaning for the person passing through, just the person doing the search.
But if this latest incident is any indication, the scanners sound like good news for anti-terrorism and bad news for less-than-average men.
So what you're saying, NBC, is that the only people who would complain about this invasive technology are terrorists and guys with small dicks?
Well done.
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It highlights the personality types of the people we've trusted with this technology. It additionally demonstrates that there is enough private information shared by the device to create a uncomfortable breach of privacy.
These devices are networked and have storage devices attached to them. The official story is that the connectivity and storage is only active for testing and training.
Oh and the official story is that the naughty bits on screen are blocked out, well this proves that the naughty bits aren't blocked out and that the TSA folks here in the US and the UK, where there have already been problems, who will be seeing travelers naked are raging morons.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0324/warning-airport-breast-xray/
So its a rights online issue.
...has demonstrated that the allegations are definitely true.
It's also an enlightening example of the behavior of the "trained professionals" who are supposed to not be paying attention to the size of your johnson when you walk through the scanners. It's like being a porn star, only you aren't being paid and you have no choice in the matter.
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can this guy sue the tsa for sexual harassment?
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wear t-shirt that says, "I'm a Grower!"
Based upon the available information - sounds like they should fire the supervisor, train the employees on sexual harassment, and fire Mr. Negron for assault.
Unfortunately, we as taxpayers will ultimately pay for all of it...
Agreed.
I very rarely travel by plane, but I did fly somewhere last month and I’ll be flying there once again later this month. They didn’t require me to stand in the body scanner, but if they had, I would have refused.
You can either peek under my clothing, or give me a pat-down? I don’t want your dirty looks. I’ll take the handjob.
They’re equally intrusive (okay, the scan might actually be more intrusive), but one of them emphasizes the fact that it’s an intrusive search, and the other is a quick and painless “we’ll use this machine to essentially take your clothes off but you won’t feel a thing”. If I’m going to be forced to submit to an intrusive search, I want it to appear intrusive... to me, to the people around me, and to the people forced to perform that particular search.
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Or, in this case, who screens the screeners? (my Latin sucks, English will have to do)
Stories like this simply make it clear that:
a) the level of detail coming out of these scanners is somewhat better than many have been led to believe.
b) the level of professionalism of some of the people charged with operating the scanners is somewhat worse than many have been led to believe.
If seeing people naked is what it really takes to introduce real security into the scanning process, just tell everyone they have to get naked to go through security. Don't hide the fact behind millions of dollars in technology and bullshittery and try to convince us that the people operating the gear are anything other than underpaid security guards, some (the vast minority, but still some) of whom will jump on the chance to sell any images they can capture, and that the images are of sufficient clarity that they are worth capturing.
I'm not against such scanners per se, though they seem like a very expensive way to gain a possibly marginal but mostly imaginary increase in security. But let's stop bullshitting ourselves that there will be any realistic expectation of privacy once they get implement, mmmm'kay?
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"waive" is what you do with your rights. "wave" is what you do with your "comically under-sized wang". Any questions?
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TSA employees are assholes. I don't object to body scanning even if it's cold and it'll show. I've happily done it in the UK even when it was voluntary.
I don't really care to do it in the US though. Pretty much every TSA employee I have ever met was a cock. They feel the need to make comments because I'm an American who opted to live outside the US (I know, a real crime) and even asking a simple question like where a certain gate is apparently is enough to be quizzed and have your travel documents looked through and maybe even have your bags checked despite having already went through that when entering the country.
It's the sort of job wanna-be tough guys take. It's no surprise it turns out they have little dicks. It explains a lot about their attitudes.
I'd be happy to even wave my dick at that employee, if he wants a clearer look. Sure, it's only average, but I'm not ashamed of that. Plus, you don't get an oportunity to flash a rentacop every day ;)
But I can see why some people would have an objection to that. For certain muslim fundies, showing yourself naked to strangers as a woman can be your own death warrant, for example. I wouldn't want to be the Saudi Arabian woman whose scanner picture ends up plastered all over the internet. And even in the west, probably most people would burst a vein if you told them that Joe Rentacop from the TSA spanked the monkey in the bathroom on his break after looking at their 7 and 11 year old daughters naked. Even if no image was stored.
It seems to me like there is no way around the fact that it does produce a naked image, and those guys get to look at it because the magical technology to just show the guns without needing an eye-scan of the body doesn't exist. And if that wasn't enough, they have a button to take a printout.
But yeah, you're right, the fact that they repeatedly lie about it, is what gets my goat the most. I keep hearing how it'll blur stuff, or how verily nobody will even see more than a stick figure of you, but then it turns out that the picture someone had posted on the Internet had some pretty clear breasts and didn't look anything like an Order Of The Stick character either. Or the guy in this story clearly saw more than a stick figure with just the gun highlighted. It seems to me like they know that what those machines really do is unacceptable, or they wouldn't go to such lengths to lie about it.
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