Why are women complianing so much? It’s for national safety! These little princesses and big babies need to suck it up!
Many Women Say Airport Pat-Downs Are a Humiliation
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
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Just how short of a plane flight was this lady taking on a regular basis? If it’s short enough to drive, fer christ’s sake, why subject yourself to the sheer time insanity of flying, let alone the possible body cavity search?
I do wonder, however, how many people they have found smuggling stuff in their brassieres.
We can assume that she’s not driving any of these routes.
How is it different for a woman to have her breasts touched from a man having his manparts touched? Or is it that women just complain more?
Well, if it’s guys doing the touching of women, that’s probably a big turnoff right there. Also, from what I’ve heard, the amount of fondling a woman’s breasts can take before it gets painful is considerably less than the amount a man’s parts can take, popular press & body humor jokes notwithstanding.
But the lady wasn’t talking about it being painful, but humiliating. I’m reminded of a thread by BottledBlondeJeannie on how often she got tagged for the body search…
I don’t know. But if these people protest and actually get breasts placed out of bounds for searching, I know where a lot of stuff will be smuggled in the future.
Their asshole? Or do you propose we start probing those as well?
-lv
Is this a joke? (Not trying to be a jerk, just didn’t know if your humor was too dry for me.) He means that if breasts are off limits to searchers, people will start smuggling things in their bra’s.
Should that apostrophe be there?
Yes, but where do you draw the line? If it’s okay to grope a woman’s breast with no reason to suspect that she’s smuggling something, isn’t it just as okay to do a cavity search? Of course, I see there’s a line, but for some people it may be drawn before breast grabbing rather than before asshole poking.
Yup, you could hide a lot under mine. 
I say let them pat me down. They have a job to do. Besides, when you’re patting down a couple thousand people a day, I doubt that you’re getting your jollies from it anymore.
Not wishing to be obvious…
‘OK Mrs X. you’re unhappy at being patted down by a male, just wait a few moments and we’ll get a female to do it.’
No.
I thought it was already the procedure that females pat down females and males do males. I also understood that this is done with the back of the hand and that rubber gloves are worn.
From here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25974
Female passengers are patted by female workers.
The ‘up the ass’ response is trying to point out that this pat down doesn’t cover that area and a ‘plastic’ explosive could be smuggled there. Are we also going to have cavity searches?
Many people say; “Oh do it! It makes us safer! It is for security!”, to which I ask, where would you draw the line?
What wouldn’t you allow ‘for security’?
This increase in breast pat downs is in response to the Russian planes that were brought down. Now they think that two women smuggled the explosives on to the planes but we don’t know the method. We don’t know that they stuffed their bras with C4 and got on that way.
Just like we now have to remove our shoes thanks to the shoe bomber guy. (jerk!)
If some terrorist uses a child to smuggle a bomb on a plane, would you have them do a cavity search on your child as you fly down to Disney World? Where would you draw the line?
Y’know, this whole pat down thing is malarkey. The only folks they’re going to catch are the occaisional nutjobs who haven’t thought their plans out very well, and I doubt the per passenger incidence of that kind of horseplay is significantly higher than it was in the '70s.
During the Gulf War, it was not unheard of for POWs to slide strips of metal not unlike sharpened knitting needles just under the skin of their forearms…and then surrender with some heroic escape plan in mind involving the use of the improvised weapon. With that kind of determination and cunning in a bombarded and starving grunt soldier–elite or otherwise–how likely do you think it is that one of Bin Laden’s mentally prepared and thoroughly dedicated minions is to pad a bra or jockstrap with a few ounces of plastique? Why risk mission failure when you can easily seal a pound or more of it in saran wrap, slice a small hole in your belly and insert the package with only a pair of wires (or some non-metallic conductor suitable for use with a 9-volt battery?) protruding and hidden by body hair? This can be done in a living room under local anasthesia considering infection is really not a concern. Or yes, a C-4 dildo? It won’t take much–just enough to knock a fist-sized hole in a pressurized cabin moving 600 mph at 25,000 feet. Science can take over to finish off the plane.
If we’re not going to commit to full body cavity searches and x-rays of EVERY passenger, we might as well not even bother at all. Says I.
So once the bra becomes out of fashion as a place to smuggle stuff because the screeners might find it, are we going to have to worry about the evil C4 Tampon Of Doom and have screeners standing there with a speculum to make sure nothing’s crammed into any cavities?
Thanks for the headsup. One more reason not to fly into US airports until the government cleans up their act. It would be nice, now that the terrorist card doesn’t need to played in order to win an election, if the aimless panic would stop and such knee-jerk measures would be reduced.
I don’t think this is a US thing. The one time I did get my breasts patted down while traveling I was in the Amsterdam airport en route to Dehli. My male colleague got his jimmy patted down pretty well, much to our amusement.
I have appointed myself Security Guardian at British Dopefest, responsible for vetting female entries