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TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump
OverTheGeicoE writes "Savannah Barry, a Colorado teenager, was returning home from a conference in Salt Lake City. She is a diabetic and wears an insulin pump to control her insulin levels 24/7. She carries documentation of her condition to assist screeners, who usually give her a pat-down search. This time the screeners listened to her story, read her doctor's letter, and forced her to go through a millimeter-wave body scanner anyway. The insulin pump stopped working correctly, and of course, she was subjected to an invasive manual search. 'My life is pretty much in their hands when I go through a body scan with my insulin pump on,' she says. She wants TSA screeners to have more training. Was this a predictable outcome, considering that no one outside TSA has access to millimeter-wave scanners for testing? Would oversight from the FDA or FCC prevent similar incidents from happening in the future?"
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TSA: bringing more terror to flight than actual terrorists!
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She was smuggling cocaine inside her insulin.
I am John Hurt.
Ummm, go to any beach in Europe and knock yourself out.
Very true. But unless you're willing to be groped, irradiated, swim *really* well, or have a lot of bucks for a ship ticket, it's kind of difficult to get to Europe.
Wait, are we talking about cell phone contracts again?
Apparently insulin pumps do.
Time to offend someone
they are relying on that 1 in 30,000,000 person being a terrorist. that way we all win.
So, someone can beat you for 8 minutes with a lead pipe, I step in and beat you for 3 then stop. You'd still vote for me?
tempting. Maybe if you told me that it was to prevent terrorism and protect the children.
When I come to work, I sneak liquor in by hiding it in my stomach.
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God damned pedantic twits bent on elevating themselves by criticizing the syntax of speech rather than evaluating its content.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
Which 12? Me? You? Let's just toss everyone in gitmo to be safe!
You have the same odds of being killed on an airplane by a terrorist as you do being killed by cancer from a body scanning device (1 in 30 million)
BEDIVERE: So, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. has the same odds of being killed on an airplane by a terrorist as she does being killed by cancer from a body scanning device then she's made of wood
BEDIVERE: And therefore--?
VILLAGER #1: The TSA are Terrorists!
CROWD: Terrorists!
BEDIVERE: We shall use my largest millimeter wave scanner!
[[Third, the scanners routinely emit a lot more radiation than the makers claim.]]
This has never been proven, and it *cannot* ever be proven as long as TSA won't allow anyone else to test the machines.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, then, these machines must be deemed safe.~