I don't fly all that often (3-4 times per year), but I've already had the choice of whether I wanted to go through the back scatter machine or be subjected to the enhanced pat-down. I refused the back scatter machine and chose the enhanced pat down, because I think it's all unnecessary and want to inconvenience those doing it as much as possible. This was before the instructions to go all the way up, but I think that now I'd do the same, and complain more. So, passengers, what do you do? Do you allow the TSA screeners to look at a grainy picture of your naked body? Or do you allow them to feel you up?
Last week I chose the machine. If somebody wants to get their jollies from checking out an x-ray of my crank, then I'm fine with that.
I'm uncomfortable with the backscatters, but prefer it to the alternatives in the poll. If you had included getting blown up by a terrorist, I would have picked that one.
In Ft. Lauderdale, the guy looking at the images from the MM Machine was less than 2 feet away from the people walking through it. He could very easily turn his head around and associate the naked image with the person walking through. Disgusting I will definitely be flying less.
I'm with you, especially since the choice is just slightly increasing the infinitesimal risk of being blown up by terrorists. I really want to know how people are reacting to our current TSA.
For those who have a problem with their "nakedness" on the backscatter imaging, do you demand that nurses look away, or that only your doctor see your xrays?
I wouldn't want the highschool dropout secretary at the front desk of a doctors office seeing my private images.
If my doctor had the same level of professionalism as the average TSA agent, I would find another doctor.
This is odd. The only people you're inconvienencing are yourself and the other passengers who have to wait for you to get searched. The employees are working their 8 hours a day no matter. They are either standing around or searching people - it doesn't inconvenience them at all. If there's one more person to search, it will take longer, but they'll leave at the end of their shift anyway, so it's not like they'll be doing more work.
what ever one is quicker dont really care of someone gets their jollies from a pat down or from looking at an x-ray image i just want to get out of that area as fast as possible
I missed the 'up' in your sentence......changed the meaning completely! (these scanners -- if I write a message on my bum, can they read it?...or is it just a computer rendering based on X-rays) I'd go with the scan...a bored security person pretending to watch my fuzzy image on a screen, vs touching. I'll do us both a favour and leave it at virtual instead of physical contact. The radiation is likely no worse then what I get with all you folks using your smart phones day in day out, or what I'm exposed to under the chem trails on a sunny day.
X-Ray. I don't fly enough for the radiation to matter (it's blown out of proportion anyway). I definitely don't want anybody touching my junk, especially not a man! My real preference is to not set off the initial detector, not look like a terrorist, and hope I don't get randomly screened.
