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At Logan Airport, TSA agrees with your mother: Wear clean underwear

By adamg on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 8:59am

Via Rob Eno.

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By anon on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 11:46am.

They now sell 4th Amendment underwear

http://cargocollective.com/4thamendment

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By Kate on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 12:57pm.

I just don't get TSA. I went to SFO in February, and I got dinged by the xray machine for a piece of crystal in my baggage--word to the wise, don't pack any Waterford.

On my last trip back to Boston last week, I got yelled at because, in my effort to save myself going through a long empty snake rope with my big bag and high heels, I ducked under a piece of rope, heading right toward the TSA officer. Some security person (non-TSA) threatened to have me arrested, made me walk back out and then go through the whole snake line, and when I got to the desk, finally, the TSA said I was fine and didn't know why she made me do that.

Then, I got picked for random screening and I had to wait for a female office, despite me saying I didn't care if I was "extra screened" by a male. The TSA guy said he wouldn't touch me with all the cameras around. I had to wait a long time for a woman officer, and the extra screening was a simple swab of my hands with a piece of chemically treated paper. It took all of 30 seconds and the woman never actually touched me. Why on earth I needed to wait for a woman for that is beyond me.

I have three more business trips this year, and I am not looking forward to any of them!

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By anon on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 3:03pm.

And all to stop the small risk of a hypothetical terrorist attack.

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By anon on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 8:21am.

I don't get it either. I fly over 100k per year and BOS has the rudest and meanest agents anywhere. Places like Wahington DC that you would think would be a pain isn't bad and the TSA staff is actually freindly. Why BOS? Great friendly city, crappy TSA experience at Logan. Try being nice TSA BOS!

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By John-W on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 1:10pm.

I really detest all this security crap but at least can understand where people are coming from when they start their arguments about terrorist bombings and needed security blahblahblah...but I'm always stumped as to why they never follow up with "and because it's important enough to intrude and stomp all over everyone's privacy rights, we need to make sure that the people we entrust to do this are of the highest caliber."

The people who work for TSA are, for the most part, decent-enough people (I guess), but honestly were any of these folks working for security or law enforcement prior to this? Are they constitutional law scholars? Have they ever worked in any context where they have the ability to take away a person's civil rights without question? I get the impression that we are putting a whole lot of power into the hands of folks who really aren't prepared for this.

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By Chris Dowd on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 4:47pm.

. . . is a humiliation.

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By ida on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 8:12am.

I don't fly that often, but don't you have to take off your belt/suspenders/whatnot *before* you go through the scanner? Am I missing something? How is it newsworthy that TSA made the guy do that?

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By Michael Kerpan on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 7:39pm.

No full body scans, no pat downs, not even shoe removals. Much faster and friendlier. But one did have (French) airport-like security screenings at some museums.

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