# Yet another bodyscanner Pit Thread (with pervs!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 23, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688 "2010-11-23T19:00:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/21 "2010-11-24T02:52:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Presumably you also never read the last paragraph of the article, **phouka** : Considering it’s quoted in the OP, I think you’d lose that bet. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/22 "2010-11-24T03:15:55Z")
It clearly says at the top of the website, “The World’s Finest News Source” - it must be legit! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/23 "2010-11-24T03:17:03Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > _fap_ _fap_ _fap_ _fap_ Thank you for protecting our country from 30,000 foot terrorists. I’d shake your hand, but I know where it’s been, so I salute you. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/24 "2010-11-24T03:22:25Z")
Actually in this case, wouldn’t the balls be in the TSA agent’s hands? 😃 [sub]And let’s not even mention the picture of the Queen flashing her bra to the world[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/25 "2010-11-24T03:32:18Z")
I saw a doctor on Tv talking about how the TSA could be spreading skin problems and diseases . If they don’t change gloves for every hand job they could be spreading some problems. I do not believe they change gloves after every one. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/26 "2010-11-24T14:58:19Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I saw a doctor on Tv talking about how the TSA could be spreading skin problems and diseases . If they don’t change gloves for every hand job they could be spreading some problems. I do not believe they change gloves after every one. If you wear underwear I think you have a good chance of beating that problem. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/27 "2010-11-24T15:04:25Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Actually in this case, wouldn’t the balls be in the TSA agent’s hands? :D… Actually. They are training for a career, post retirement, as junk dealers. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/28 "2010-11-24T15:11:12Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > If you wear underwear I think you have a good chance of beating that problem. But if I have to change my lifestyle that much, the terrorists will have already won! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/29 "2010-11-24T16:36:55Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > If you wear underwear I think you have a good chance of beating that problem. There are plenty of claims of TSA checkers reaching down peoples underwear. Besides the crotch is not the only place you get skin problems. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/30 "2010-11-24T16:39:05Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Certainly no less believable than some of the stuff [Fox is flogging as “news”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlzjwZD4lEQ) Actually, I’d argue it is less believable. In the Fox story, the jetpack itself is real; Fox & Friends’ mistake was the claim that the LAPD was buying them. That, too, is not patently unbelievable. The thing that should have made them think twice was buried in the details: that the LAPD was buying 10,000 jetpacks at $100,000 each. Only by doing the math that this claim implies do you reach the obviously unbelievable item: the LAPD is spending a billion dollars. In contrast, the headline “Perverts Flocking to American Airports for TSA Groping” itself doesn’t ring true. We might imagine a story in which that was the thrust (no pun intended), but not a story with that as the headline. The headline itself, in other words, is the patently unbelievable item. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/31 "2010-11-24T16:40:04Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Considering it’s quoted in the OP, I think you’d lose that bet. _slinks away in shame_ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/32 "2010-11-24T17:13:34Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > In the Fox story, the jetpack itself is real; Fox & Friends’ mistake was the claim that the LAPD was buying them. That, too, is not patently unbelievable. Only to those with less than fully developed critical thinking skills. For the rest of us, the notion of a police department flying around on jetpacks is ludicrous on the face of it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/33 "2010-11-24T17:48:19Z")
Yeah. The cops here are way too fat. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/34 "2010-11-24T17:54:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Only to those with less than fully developed critical thinking skills. For the rest of us, the notion of a police department flying around on jetpacks is ludicrous on the face of it. That’s not a fair statement, any more than it would be to sneer at the notion of a police department zooming around on Segways. In fact, many police departments use Segways as a mobility tool in certain circumstances. I’m not sure what, specifically, makes you say that it’s ludicrous on the face of it to imagine that a police department might have, or at least test, a similar role for jetpacks. Can you explain why you feel it’s ludicrous on the face of it? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/35 "2010-11-24T17:57:22Z")
My local county sheriff’s office just spent $10 million in Homeland Security grants to equip the deputies with lasguns and plasma grenades. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/36 "2010-11-24T18:22:17Z")
Wait, there are actual jetpacks? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/37 "2010-11-24T18:42:31Z")
I want a jetpack! (Thank y’all for saving my thread. 😃 You make my day.) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/38 "2010-11-25T02:58:35Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wait, there are actual jetpacks? Yup, the video in the story is real; the false part was the claim that the LAPD is spending a thousand million dollars on them. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/39 "2010-11-25T04:38:06Z")
What’s all this about TSA agents getting jet packs? Now they’re going to fly all around the airport looking for people to grope? ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688/40 "2010-11-25T06:23:37Z")
Wait, so we can afford to spend 200 million dollars a DAY for Obama to party in India, but we can’t spare the cash for police jetpacks? Talk about priorities being out of whack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bodyscanner-pit-thread-with-pervs/561688.md?page=3)