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The TSA

PrincessApricotPrincessApricot
edited 2011-11-05 18:50:55 in Meatspace
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
>:(

They're going way to far.

On the bright side, enjoy this amusing and mildly NSFW Japanese parody (yes, foreign countries are making fun of the TSA now...):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCpaR6uHYM&feature=related

Comments

  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    TSA?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-11-05 18:54:03
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Ah, did I ever get around to telling you guys my airport security story from this summer?
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^
    No, would you care to share? :)
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Right, hang on, I'm going to need to provide a photo of something with this story.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-11-05 19:32:52
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Right. Over the summer, I was all over and around Europe. About halfway through my trip, in Nice, I saw a nice little shop that sells things embedded in plexiglass cubes. I got this. As you can see, the cube I chose contains a set of assorted computer parts, new and old.

    Two weeks later, having completely forgotten about this purchase, there I am, going through airport security in Heathrow when the conveyor belt stops. So there I am, waiting for my bag to come out, and occasionally another security person steps over to the screen on the X-ray scanner and gives it a perplexed look. I figured it was broken. Well, then the guy working the machine steps over to me, holding my bag.

    "Is this your bag?"

    "Um...yes."

    "Do you have any electronics in it?"

    "Yes."

    "Could you list them, please?"

    "Um...there's a laptop, two portable game systems, the chargers for all those...hmmm...I can't think of anything else..."

    "Anything with kind of a large bulb in it?"

    "What? Not that I know of..."

    At this point, I'm kind of freaking out.

    "Could you please step over here and unpack it for me?"

    Being a messy, cram-it-all in type of packer, I proceed to produce approximately triple the bag's volume in assorted stuff.

    Finally, I come to the item pictured above and realize what all the fuss was about. I unwrap it, show it to him, explain that it's a decorative piece and show him that the parts don't even connect to each other. He runs a few devices over it, nods and lets me repack my bag and go, but first says "you really do need to be careful what you bring onto an airplane. On an X-ray, that looks exactly like a bomb."

    That last bit has to be the scariest thing any airport security person has said to me, despite that guy's being the nicest airport security person I've ever met.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Hahaha, I can see how that would show up like a bomb.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Apparently, plexiglass shows up a different color than normal glass, too, and it doesn't go through there often, so they didn't recognize it, which meant to them it could have been encased in some newly-invented explosive compound.
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