TSA Mandates GA 'Self-Pat-Down' Program 35
countertrolling writes "In a compromise measure that attempts to balance calls for increased in General Aviation operations against the individual liberties of GA pilots, [TSA head John] announced that a new self-administered pat-down program would be mandatory in the very near future. Acceptance has been (at best) mixed within the GA . While most pilots knew that enhanced steps were going to be forthcoming from the TSA, as a 'necessary counter' to security threats, most complain that the new go too far."
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April First FAIL for all these stories.
You should at least make up shit that is halfway believable.
I predict an INCREASE in air accidents (Score:3)
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The IRA and other non-Muslim terrorists have been inactive of late, let's concentrate on the real danger.
I know the terrorist themselves believe they are exempt of their own stupid rules, but they cannot afford to let everyone be exempt.
If everyone starts burning Qurans the terrorists will have lost.
The proper response to Muslim extremism isn't moderation, that's not in their dictionary, they don't understand it. The only way to talk to fanatics is to defeat them.
Look at Japan before and during WWII. Everyo
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So, making bigoted remarks that piss off the ones that haven't yet decided which side their on is productive? Do we drop nukes on Riyadh and hope for the best?
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My guess is they'll make you go out to the parking lot and burn a Mazda.
Ba-dump-ching. Thanks. I'll be here all night.
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My guess is they'll make you go out to the parking lot and burn a Mazda
But only if Nichelle Nichols is driving it...
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Gah.. should've thought about tenses a little further. "owned" would've been a better choice of words than "is driving". Stupid easy to hit submit button not far enough away from the preview button..
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This is too likely to be true.
Why don't we have an article about the TSA's "strip naked in public" program, as the new mandatory alternative to full HD body scanners?
Because that's all too likely to be true as well in the very near future, don't put it past DHS and the TSA to make someone strip naked in public.
You're doing it wrong (Score:3)
I think you, like a number of posters, have misunderstood the Slashdot April Fool's tradition. It consists of a) one stupid "feature" on the site, and b) April Fool's articles written by other sites, as submitted by /. users. The editors don't create the mock articles.
Everytime I do a self-pat down. (Score:2)
I get excited...and arrested.
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Can't you just have them run your through a metal detector at that point. I'm sure they really will believe you when you tell them "it's not a concealed gun" after that.
The only way some people get touched. (Score:2)
For some people, this is only way for them to get touch in any way.
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Yes yes, thank you for your input. Please leave your written complaints on the floor by the exit.
TSA announces New Terror Alert Status (Score:3)
Tweed
Cardigan
Pleated
Denim
and
Permanent Press
Hmm.. (Score:4, Funny)
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I hear the training material for the procedure was a Macarena video.
I wonder.. (Score:2)
If we take videos of people patting themselves down, and sell them on the internet, could we subsidize air travel prices?
My experience with "self-patting" (Score:3)
Security first! (Score:2)
Forget security through obscurity, they need to put the naked pictures from the body scanner on a projection screen for all passengers in line behind to inspect for um contraband.
Got more post in today (Score:2)
I just want to be an April Fool (Score:1)