Underwear invention protects privacy at airport

[BigBlueBobby]

Underwear invention protects privacy at airport
Sun Nov 21, 8:54 PM

By The Associated Press

DENVER - It's a special kind of underwear — with a strategically placed fig leaf design — and a Colorado man says it'll get you through the airport screeners with your dignity intact.

Jeff Buske says his invention uses a powdered metal that protects people's privacy when undergoing medical or security screenings.

Buske of Las Vegas, Nev.-Rocky Flats Gear says the underwear's inserts are thin and conform to the body's contours, making it difficult to hide anything beneath them.

The mix of tungsten and other metals do not set off metal detectors.

The men's design has the fig leaf, while the one for women comes in the shape of clasped hands.

It's unclear whether it would lead to an automatic, more intrusive pat down by federal Transportation Security Administration officials.



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[toguy5252]

Underwear invention protects privacy at airport
Sun Nov 21, 8:54 PM

By The Associated Press

DENVER - It's a special kind of underwear — with a strategically placed fig leaf design — and a Colorado man says it'll get you through the airport screeners with your dignity intact.

Jeff Buske says his invention uses a powdered metal that protects people's privacy when undergoing medical or security screenings.

Buske of Las Vegas, Nev.-Rocky Flats Gear says the underwear's inserts are thin and conform to the body's contours, making it difficult to hide anything beneath them.

The mix of tungsten and other metals do not set off metal detectors.

The men's design has the fig leaf, while the one for women comes in the shape of clasped hands.

It's unclear whether it would lead to an automatic, more intrusive pat down by federal Transportation Security Administration officials.



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One can only hope that it will lead to a more intrusive pat down or you can bet where terrorists will be attempting to conceal explosives.

Only in the US and only among the Palinistas and their ilk would such an innocuous measure intended to protect everyone be such an assault on our liberty. Incredible.

 

[alexmst]

One can only hope that it will lead to a more intrusive pat down or you can bet where terrorists will be attempting to conceal explosives.

Only in the US and only among the Palinistas and their ilk would such an innocuous measure intended to protect everyone be such an assault on our liberty. Incredible.

I wouldn't call being photographed naked and exposed to radiation merely to board a domestic flight innocuous.

Little wonder sales of business jets are at a high? Anyone with enough money could bypass this and actually enjoy flying from place to place.

Terrorists win by imposing terror and getting people to change their lifestyles. They don't have to blow up things if everyone is forced to live in a bunker mentality out of fear of what might happen.

 

[toguy5252]

Terrorists win by imposing terror and getting people to change their lifestyles. They don't have to blow up things if everyone is forced to live in a bunker mentality out of fear of what might happen.

You are right but they win bigger if and when they successfully blow up a plane. An x-ray photograph is hardly intrusive. People can opt for a pat down which is similarly no big deal. If people object to the security measures they should take a bus or a train.

 

[blackrock13]

Pack a set of these and see what they do.

 

[OddSox]

it's not a pat down per se...the actually feel up your equipment.

Big deal. Do you really think they're getting their jollies after doing a couple hundred people every shift, 5 shifts a week etc.?

 

[Rockslinger]

You are right but they win bigger if and when they successfully blow up a plane.

An intelligent (wo)man would ask what do "they" actually win by blowing up a plane and killing a bunch of innocent people?

 

[papasmerf]

it's not a pat down per se...the actually feel up your equipment.

did you feel violated when they searched you?

why did you refuse the x-ray?

 

[smiley1437]

it's not a pat down per se...the actually feel up your equipment.

Next time, wear a kilt in the true Scottish tradition and see how far they go

 

[papasmerf]

Next time, wear a kilt in the true Scottish tradition and see how far they go

I like the way you think.

 

[alexmst]

Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Staff Reporter

An ABC News employee described an underwear search Sunday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport that was “worse than going to a gynecologist.

“The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around,” she said.

After a weekend of defending TSA’s more aggressive searches, chief John Pistole admitted the Newark incident “never” should have happened.

And he told NBC’s Today show Monday that the TSA was “open” to modifying its security methods.

“We are always adapting and adjusting prior protocols in view of the intelligence and in view of the latest information we have on how the terrorists are trying to kill our people on planes,” he said.

In recent days, it was reported that a Michigan man who wears a urostomy bag after bladder cancer was drenched in his own urine after a rough pat-down broke the bag.

One angry traveller has called on airline passengers to join him Wednesday for National Opt-Out Day and refuse a full-body scan on the single busiest U.S. travel day.

Security agents, meanwhile, told an airline blogger how the pat-downs are destroying their morale.

“I want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples’ private parts,” one told Steven Frischling.

“I go home and cry,” said another. “I have been hardened by war, and in the past week I am slowly being broken down by the hateful comments directed at me by passengers.”

A flight attendant recovering from breast cancer who says she was forced to show a U.S. airport security agent her prosthetic breast has joined a mounting chorus demanding an end to invasive screening procedures.

“She put her full hand on my breast and said, ‘What is this?’ Cathy Bossi told WBTV in Charlotte, N.C.. “And I said, ‘It's my prosthesis because I've had breast cancer.’ And she said, ‘Well, you'll need to show me that’.”

Bossi, who was wearing her USAirways flight attendant’s uniform at Charlotte airport, had to remove the prosthetic from her bra the station reported Friday.

Bossi, who has been a flight attendant for 32 years, had already been through a full-body scanner.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration rules allow security agents to “see and touch” a prosthetic but not to ask or require a passenger to remove one.

But with the most hectic travel week on the U.S. calendar underway in the run-up to American Thanksgiving, the horror stories are mounting.
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"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither": - Benjamin Franklin

 

[BigBlueBobby]

Patting people down this way is just going too far. Jeraldo said it best. It's just invasive, obnoxious, and crude. And now Obama is talking about exempting Muslims from the public grope! The police state is for North American sheeps who willingly walk to slaughter. I'm going to order that underwear, but instead of a fig leaf, my teflon barrier will read "FUCK YOU".

 

[Rockslinger]

I hope that day never comes but we could wake up to a news report that a planeload of 300 passengers blew up because a bomb was hidden inside a woman's vagina. Don't think it could ever happen? Want to bet?

 

[BigBlueBobby]

How do you know it hasn't already? Maybe we should be more concerned with societies ills that a woman could be persuaded to hide an incendiary device up her cooter to bring attention to the lunatic ravings of people that would throw acid in her face for expressing her own opinion, than to poke our finger into the business of every free thinking woman who knows better.

 

[Rockslinger]

Maybe we should be more concerned with societies ills that a woman could be persuaded to hide an incendiary device up her cooter to bring attention to the lunatic ravings of people that would throw acid in her face for expressing her own opinion,

Do you dare to criticize a culture and risk being label racist?

 

[Rockslinger]

A shapely woman in a bikini breezed through LAX check-in in less than 2 seconds. Saw the video on CTV News.

 

[train]

I wouldn't call being photographed naked and exposed to radiation merely to board a domestic flight innocuous.

Little wonder sales of business jets are at a high? Anyone with enough money could bypass this and actually enjoy flying from place to place.
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I would definitely call it innocuous. The very small amount of radiation leaves your body in an hour. Avoiding it is hardly worth $5 million for a private jet and $2,000/hour operating costs, not that I don't love the convenience of private planes.
I've been scanned 5 or 6 times. No big deal. No one gives a shit about looking at quasi x-rays of average people. You people are adults , give your head a shake.

 

[papasmerf]

Patting people down this way is just going too far. Jeraldo said it best. It's just invasive, obnoxious, and crude. And now Obama is talking about exempting Muslims from the public grope! The police state is for North American sheeps who willingly walk to slaughter. I'm going to order that underwear, but instead of a fig leaf, my teflon barrier will read "FUCK YOU".

You can always drive or take a boat