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I've seen this same scenario in play many times in different airports. In some larger airports (IAH) they only have 1 body scanner but way more volume than it c
by hieronymusN 15y ago
I've seen this same scenario in play many times in different airports. In some larger airports (IAH) they only have 1 body scanner but way more volume than it can handle, so they will have two other lines going through standard metal detectors. I just stand in one of those lines and bypass the scanner. The last time I asked a TSA guy how to request a pat down and not go through the scanner he got visibly annoyed and started loudly proclaiming how safe the scanners were, its just an X-ray, yadda yadda.
- clistctrl 15y agoI opted out at a scanner in Milwaukee (not as much for health as just generally disagreeing with the concept) it was one of the active millimeter scanners. When I did he proceeded to tell me it wasn't an x-ray scanner, but used radio waves "like your cell phone". At first I was going to comment on the frequency difference, but instead i decided to say "oh i see, so it's radiowaves like my microwave oven?".