New Airline Security Device

[Sassy]

New Airline Security Device being contemplated by DHS

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/prototype_remoteactivated_wrist_stundevice_shocks_you_for_aeroplane_security-2.html

watch video here  http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/video_gallery.asp?video=http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/video/EMDsafetybracelet.flv

[ScottA]

I guess I won't be flying anytime soon. OMDB

[NM_Shooter]

Wow!  what a bad idea that is.  Not only from a liability standpoint, but also the means for implementation is crappy.

What keeps the "terrorist" from slipping some thin dielectric material under the bracelet to insulate himself from the probes? 

I am amazed that this idea got as far as it did. 

[glenn kangiser]

Do you trust the guy who doesn't know you running his finger down the list of passengers and deciding which buzzer to buzz?  What if you were sitting in the troublemakers seat?  ouch

[muldoon]

how awful.  you know I don't think the world has gotten much worse, but the "safety first" Nazis certainly have.  I have a few trips planned for later this year; San Jose and Calgary in the fall, Chicago and London later this summer.  I'm not looking forward to them. 

[benevolance]

I was going to suggest that they just have some anti EMD device inserted under their skin in the wrist to make them immune..

Think about it folks... no matter what new security device they put on money 2 months later the criminals figure out a way to make counter fit bills and avoid the new security measure... What is to stop the criminals from figuring out how to overcome this new measure?

And for that the rights of all passengers get violated....

Nice logic there

[glenn kangiser]

I'm with you, muldoon. 

Maybe I'll get a tatoo on my backside that says -no rubber gloves.

[desdawg]

I'm with you, muldoon. 

Maybe I'll get a tatoo on my backside that says -no rubber gloves.

How about if it says something like: "If you can read this you have gone too far." or "Caution, dangerous gases may be present."

[muldoon]

indeed. 


I'll go with ....

[glenn kangiser]

I like George Carlin's tattoo idea.  A circular tattoo saying "No Gerbils" but then TSA would think that was an invitation.