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Title: New Airline Security Device
Post by: Sassy on July 10, 2008, 01:00:37 PM
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
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: ScottA on July 10, 2008, 01:07:42 PM
I guess I won't be flying anytime soon. OMDB
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: NM_Shooter on July 10, 2008, 02:51:35 PM
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. 
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 10, 2008, 04:09:36 PM
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
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: muldoon on July 10, 2008, 07:47:00 PM
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. 
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: benevolance on July 10, 2008, 11:33:28 PM
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
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 11, 2008, 01:47:30 AM
I'm with you, muldoon. 

Maybe I'll get a tatoo on my backside that says -no rubber gloves. [crz]
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: desdawg on July 11, 2008, 08:29:46 AM
Quote from: glenn kangiser on July 11, 2008, 01:47:30 AM
I'm with you, muldoon. 

Maybe I'll get a tatoo on my backside that says -no rubber gloves. [crz]
How about if it says something like: "If you can read this you have gone too far." or "Caution, dangerous gases may be present."
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: muldoon on July 11, 2008, 08:33:46 AM
indeed. 


I'll go with ....

(http://www.barcoproducts.com/images/upload/items/RSP28.jpg)
Title: Re: New Airline Security Device
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 11, 2008, 09:47:40 AM
I like George Carlin's tattoo idea.  A circular tattoo saying "No Gerbils" but then TSA would think that was an invitation.