# Butt bombs

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 25, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381 "2007-09-25T01:47:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381/41 "2007-09-28T16:36:30Z")

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What airport was this again? 🙂

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### Author: ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381/42 "2007-09-28T17:59:20Z")

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Is this really GQ?

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### Author: ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381/43 "2007-09-29T06:27:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Algernon]  
Hmmm. I travel regularly and I’ve never been “puffed” at the TSA security checkpoint.

Where are you guys flying in and out of, where you get “puffed”?  
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Pittsburgh (PIT) also has these machines, but only randomly selected folk have to go thru it. Out of I dunno, 100 or so times, I got directed through it twice, I think.

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### Author: ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381/44 "2007-09-29T06:37:51Z")

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Ugh…missed the edit window…

Grammar correction to my last post…I should have said,

“but only randomly selected folk have to go thru **ONE.** Out of I dunno, 100 or so times, I got directed through **ONE** twice…”

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### Author: ![Thrasymachus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Thrasymachus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrasymachus)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-bombs/420381/45 "2007-09-30T00:19:50Z")

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I went through the “puffer” on a return through Vegas in the evening after spending a good 3-4 hours at a local handgun club.

Not even a blip, and I put at least 1000 rounds downrange that day. I’m sure a real terrorist would figure they’d shower or something after building a bomb, so color me unimpressed…

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