USVI-On-Line

Back on Christmas I said "Watch body scanner stocks jump" and sure enough the US is going add 150 to the 40 already in use this year. Since we are more likely to encounter one of these on one of our USVI trips, how do you feel about the FBS?

Scan away.
Do you think enhancements may appear as components for a bomb?

So, if some govt employee who sees this all day sees my nipples (They're FABulous by the way), somehow MY privacy is invaded?

Know what invades my privacy?

Blowing up at 25,000 feet invades the hell out of my privacy.

I could not care less. As long as the process works smoothly and doesn't add hours of delays. Don't go "We must scan all people" and then put one scanner at each airport. You're either doing this or you're not. No half-assing it.

Says the frequent business flyer...

I wouldn't mind scanning at all. Whatever. It's the people doing the inspecting that don't reassure me in the least. Which I know is a larger, nearly-impossible-to-have-perfect issue.

A few weeks ago I flew through Las Vegas and TSA simply shut down an entire gate for 30 minutes because "their shift was over." It got me thinking that maybe such a monopoly shouldn't be solely in charge of my security at 30,000'.

Not to vent or anything...

Another "whatever" here. We are all naked under our clothes.

Edited to add that I also think a scanner like this would feel MUCH less invasive than the extreme full body pat down/body massage I got at Charles de Gaulle a couple of years ago. At least the agent was good looking.

At this point in my life, I could care less if some TSA guy (or girl) sees the shape of my girl parts when I walk thru a scanner.

I'm going to go with Pipanale on this one.

If you're going to do it, do it. Don't screw around. Get rid of all the "Security Theater" BS and let's get down to business and do it efficently.

I grew up in Western Europe during the 70's and early 80's when Security had German Sheperds that looked like they could eat your face off for fun and and carried machine guns.

THEY were serious about security.

But lets face it, all DHS did was give some of the same lazy people new uniforms and changed the company logo on their paycheck. Sad but true.

Gromit wrote:I grew up in Western Europe during the 70's and early 80's when Security had German Sheperds that looked like they could eat your face off for fun and and carried machine guns.

THEY were serious about security.

Gromit, that is the first thing I thought of when I openned this thread. I remember Germany in the late 80s and early 90s with the dogs and guns at the airports.

I also remember staying out til all hours in Austria and seeing guys with machine guns walking around the streets. There may have been some political gathering of some sort going on.

I have no issue with it...if it keeps everyone a little safer...SCAN AWAY...

BTW Pipanale your nipple comment made me LOL...hilarious...teehee...

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I am all for stripping and/or scanning. I'd rather walk through a machine that shows it all than have someone patting me down, personally.

As someone who made her way onto the watchlist way back when it was first established post-9/11, what INFURIATED me was that sometimes I was hassled to no end, other times I breezed right through. That made NO sense to me. Either I am a threat (perceived or real) or I am not. If I am I should be getting extreme scrutiny every single time and that was just not the case.

Generally speaking I think that whatever we need to do to help with security ... however, just how MUCH radiation is our body absorbing from this scanner??? If I was a frequent flyer and had to subject to this scan on a regular basis I think I would object.

No problems here with scanning. Like others have said, I'd rather be scanned than patted down by some perv who just happened to get hired by the TSA and likes his job a little too much! I'm also with Pip...if you're going to do it, do it right! Not half-assed like so much of the security is now.

I went all the way to STT with folding scissors on my keychain...forgot they were there. A week after we got home, I had to fly to Sacramento and they found the scissors and treated me like the Unabomber. They said I could take them over to another desk and have them FedEx'd home... like I was going to pay $15.00 to FedEx a lousy $1.50 pair of folding scissors! I gave them up, of course, but it surely made me wonder how I could fly all the way to the Virgin Islands with NO ONE on ANY flight of my 3 legs there and 3 legs back ever found them. Yet I get on a plane for a more or less local flight and I'm criminalized.

And just for the record, the scissors were missed at LAX, and found at SNA (John Wayne Orange County). Shouldn’t LAX be a little more on top of this, rather than a county airport? Grrr.

Scan away! I say do it right, if ya think it's invasion of privacy take a boat to St John. System will never be 100% but we can make it better. It's the world we live in, ya gonna have to adapt to it.

Kathyzhere wrote:Generally speaking I think that whatever we need to do to help with security ... however, just how MUCH radiation is our body absorbing from this scanner??? If I was a frequent flyer and had to subject to this scan on a regular basis I think I would object.

I'm done having kids and happen to think that if my nuts glowed in the dark I'd be an even bigger hit at parties.

St John Spice Dance Club...after dark.
Call Ruth!