I know it isn't mandatory for every passenger, but it's not going to be that uncommon either. Much like being selected for further baggage checks, it doesn't happen to everyone but it's quite common. If it's something that you are going to be turned away from your flight for refusing to do then it should be made apparent before the purchase of the ticket.
How many people in the thread have already said 'If you agree to the T&Cs' then it's OK to refuse to let them on the flight. It isn't in the T&Cs though.
I wonder how many people would object if the 'guidelines' (they aren't laws, laws have oversight, but they can't be ignored either) were suddenly changed to include a cavity search tomorrow... How many here would be saying, "well, it's in the terms and conditions of flight"...
For those that say it wouldn't happen, there's as much evidence of effectiveness in such a measure as there is in the body scanners...
Ah ok, I seem to have answered my own question, partially. This is the type of image it produces ('Rapiscan Secure 1000');
And we think that this is acceptable?. Bearing in mind that millions of kids will also pass through this machine.
What do you think is worse though? Pictures that for arguments sake are solely used to determine whether something is being concealed that shouldn't be, or someone slipping through the net with a knife, gun or explosive? It's not as if you are sending HD photographs of your kids genitals to known paedophiles, it's a security force doing the job it's paid to do.
If I was a peado and there were no jobs going at cub scouts it is where I would get a job.
And as this is this extended to every airport that means I can't fly without having my children's balls potentially perved over.
I would rather risk the terrorism thanks.
If I was a peado and there were no jobs going at cub scouts it is where I would get a job.
And as this is this extended to every airport that means I can't fly without having my children's balls potentially perved over.
I would rather risk the terrorism thanks.
Be a bit embarrassing if you get a random lob on right before the detector.
Utterly retarded increasing security at airports. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea is an idiot.
Just imagine, for one second, that after spending billions of pounds we actually made airports 100% secure (would never happen, and that's just our end). The terrorists would just move to another easy target.
Ocean Liners.
Schools.
Cinemas.
Sports venues.
Town centres.
Shopping malls
Train stations.
Tunnels.
The non secure area in airports. (Should the scanners be as you enter the carpark?)
Office buildings.
Bus stations.
All of these targets would have to be secured in the same way. Costing hundreds of billions in equipment and staffing.
And then what? Well take a guess. They'll then start targeting people, or water supplies, or the biggest, unsecure groups of people.
If terrorists had the will to hit us they'd be doing it week in week out, every day. If we're under that much of a threat there is no way, NO WAY they wouldn't be able to blow up tube trains, regular trains and God knows what else on a daily basis. Hell, driving trucks onto railway tracks etc. They would be doing it right now.
Thing is though, we're not actually under any real threat at all from terrorists. What you should be worrying about is crossing the road, getting cancer, having a heart attack, being murdered by family or friends etc.
I'm disgusted every time a moron calls for more security, or removal of our rights in some way. As if it would help.
Surely they could have just been searched normally as an alternative? Actually get those airport "security" (lol) people to do something pro-active.
A lot of fuss over nothing IMO.
"Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security."
So damn true.
Well yes...but as I stated, she probably refused to be 'touched' as in that pathetic 'patting' test they do.
So they went, okay X-Ray...but nooooooooo, thats suddenly against her religion also![]()
I agree that if the alternative isn't taken it's daft. I don't mind the pat down, but so many people don't do it properly. I've never had my tie checked, or the under side of my collar checked for example. I often clutch my hands and they've never asked me to open them either. Many people have held items in their hands and been searched but never asked to open them, albeit there's not much lethality that can be held inside a closed hand. All the xrays do is mitigate the poor standard of the staff - furthermore, complacency will set in, and thigns will be overlooked in time - even with these full body scanners.
No system, or security is unbreakable. If someone desperately wants to do an act of terrorism enough, it'll happen. Making the life hell for everyone else seems like overkill to me.
Also, all this liquids thing is such a farce now - at least they should provide you with free water when you're airside. It's such a bunch of rubbish.
you'll only be embarassed if you got a tiny dong
How is a minor inconvienence to a few passengers a loss of freedom?And dangerous weapons are illegal almost everywhere anyway so that is obviously not what I ment. Once we start losing our rights and freedom then the terrorists really have won.
How is it a placebo, we've been xraying baggage for years and it's saved a lot of crap from happening.Irony of you hurling insults is he is more right than you are lol, this is nothing more than a placebo
If you engaged your intelligence instead of seeing red you would have read it as him saying the current procedures are adequate and the money could have been better spent on more safety in the air from accidents (which cause more incidents than terrorists ever have)
And we think that this is acceptable?. Bearing in mind that millions of kids will also pass through this machine.
So the security person briefly sees a grainy image of a naked child. So what?
There is absolutely no evidence of meaningful benefit whatsoever to the whole money wasting fiasco?