Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!

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Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 6, 2011 @04:53AM from the that's-a-nice-bomb-job dept.

mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the TSA is now worried about surgically implanted bombs. Are they trying to get everyone to stop flying entirely? I know there's no way they'd get me in an airliner these days. I'll drive, even though it is far, far more dangerous."

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This was the logical end by tmosley · 2011-07-06 04:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

This was the logical end of this stupidity. Face it folks, you can't be 100% safe, no matter how many liberties you give up.
1. Re:This was the logical end by sstamps · 2011-07-06 05:06 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It was precisely what the terrorists wanted in the first place.. to make us so fearful that we started to treat people even worse, on average, than most third-world dictatorial/theocratic regimes do. They hated us for our way of life (rightly or wrongly.. doesn't matter at this point), and they succeeded in making it worse by proving that our high-and-mighty principles of liberty and privacy weren't as high-and-mighty as we kept saying they were to the rest of the world.
  The only thing the TSA (and our government as a whole in the same vein) has done is to encourage the terrorists even more.
  I'm with the OP, though. I'll take a bus, train, ship, or drive myself before I will subject myself to their degrading and humiliating treatment.
  
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2. Re:This was the logical end by countertrolling · 2011-07-06 05:32 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It was precisely what the terrorists wanted in the first place..
  Stop with the script reading, please... With its credibility in the shitter, it's what the government wanted in the first place. They had to use the terrorism angle to get us wimps to go long without questioning anything and distract attention away form its other abuses. Anybody who disagreed was immediately tagged.. Worked like a charm.. Exploitation of natural instincts always does
  
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3. Re:This was the logical end by houghi · 2011-07-06 05:36 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  They hated us for our way of life
  They did not hate us how we live our lives. They hated us because we told them how to lead THEIR lives.
  That does not mean they are not happy if all others do stoopid stuff. Makes them feel important, like feeding a troll.
  
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4. Re:This was the logical end by tmosley · 2011-07-06 06:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You have obviously never met Dick Cheney.
5. Re:This was the logical end by X.25 · 2011-07-06 06:35 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  They hated us for our way of life
  You still don't get it.
  Noone hates you for "your way of life".
  They hate you because of the things your government has done and is still doing.
Re:Wasn't there... by Verdatum · 2011-07-06 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

I remember in the 80s, Sonny Bono himself managed to get a bomb onto a SPACE SHUTTLE without really needing to hide it anywhere! In fact, he bought it in the airport gift shop!
is driving more dangerous? by TheCarp · 2011-07-06 05:04 · Score: 3, Insightful

I mean, your chance of death from crash is lower sure, but thats a pretty narrow definition of "danger".
What about the "Danger" of being detained and missing your flight? The "Danger" of irradiation from newfangled machines that the TSA lied to the public about wrt safety and safety testing? How about the danger of having property taken from you? Forgot that little credit card tool with the knife in your wallet? fuck you, gone.
The danger that you will run afoul of some new secret rule?
I suspect the danger of being a victim of the TSA tips the scales in favor of driving.

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I finally figured it out! by c.r.o.c.o · 2011-07-06 05:05 · Score: 5, Informative

The TSA operation manual is actually Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Whoever mods me Funny, please don't. It's not a joke.
1. Re:I finally figured it out! by artor3 · 2011-07-06 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm pretty sure it is a joke. Perhaps one of those "funny because it hits close to home" jokes, but still a joke. The TSA can't be using 1984 as a manual. Even in 1984, they didn't require people to assume a submissive position while being photographed naked.
Re:This was from some B movie? any have a name? by h4rr4r · 2011-07-06 05:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

No, they should be disbanded and we should go back to the old security methods. They are clearly just security theater.
What about a butt-bomb? by jasno · 2011-07-06 05:11 · Score: 4, Insightful

They've been ignoring the threat of butt-bombs for years now, even though a terrorist actually used that technique in 2009: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6862247.ece
They also continue to ignore the fact that a liquid ban is ineffective when several travelers could combine their 3oz containers past the security checkpoint.
We reinforced the cabin doors, and that's all we ever needed to do to prevent another 9/11. The fact that we've allowed our government to waste billions while molesting innocent citizens is just sickening.

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1. Re:What about a butt-bomb? by steelfood · 2011-07-06 05:54 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  We reinforced the cabin doors, and that's all we ever needed to do to prevent another 9/11
  But such a simple solution won't make companies any money. And you know it's all about making companies money these days. Especially when the top administrators can get a kickback in the form of a high-paying lobbying job once they quit the TSA.
  
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Re:No shit. by Zeek40 · 2011-07-06 05:22 · Score: 3, Informative

It's already been done.
Re:This was from some B movie? any have a name? by hypergreatthing · 2011-07-06 05:30 · Score: 3, Interesting

The outer limits had an episode where aliens abducted a human couple (wife and husband) while they were camping, made them into complete replicants with the same memories and all, except when they got near a trigger person (the president or whomever) their hearts would turn into a nuke and blow up. The antagonist was a security officer who's solution was to capture these replicants before they detonated and extract their beating hearts. He even mentions in the episode something to the fact that the last five humans (who were afterwards found out to be non replicants) died for a just cause.
Fast forward to the end, the husband escapes to the park they were camping in to find the alien ship to prove his innocence. They suspect his wife is the replicant and shoot her before she can explode. They find the original body of her in the alien ship, and then in a twist they also find the dude's body. When learning that he is a replicant he self destructs and explodes killing the security office.
I can't wait until we get heart extractors in airports.... you know, to find the terrorists.
Re:No shit. by ColdWetDog · 2011-07-06 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Prior Art.

Taco Bell!

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Re:The DKR already did it! by u17 · 2011-07-06 07:05 · Score: 4, Informative

Tell me that 9/11 isn't just a cheap ripoff of a comic book from 1986.
No, as a matter of fact it was a rip-off of a novel by Tom Clancy (read the last paragraph of the plot summary).