Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Northwest Airlines Plane

**oxyjohn** · 29-12-2009, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I still don't understand why the authorities don't insist upon all airports having the new type of scanner. If people are worried that their rights are infringed, they han stay at home of get the bus.

Simple really.

Amsterdam has the new fully body scanners, the operator obviously wasn't paying attention or perhaps the thing really isn't that good.

**Boon Mee** · 29-12-2009, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by oxyjohn

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I still don't understand why the authorities don't insist upon all airports having the new type of scanner. If people are worried that their rights are infringed, they han stay at home of get the bus.

Simple really.

Amsterdam has the new fully body scanners, the operator obviously wasn't paying attention or perhaps the thing really isn't that good.

Or perhaps he or she operating the machine thought this POS had a huge Johnson...

he is Black after all...

**WhiteKnight** · 01-01-2010, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Amsterdam has the new fully body scanners, the operator obviously wasn't paying attention or perhaps the thing really isn't that good.
Or perhaps he or she operating the machine thought this POS had a huge Johnson...

he is Black after all...

Ahem, according to the UK news he never passed through it, just why I don't know. Mind you I am wondering what they would ask you when they spot something unusual... I'll let the jokers here have some fun with that one.

**Marmite the Dog** · 29-12-2009, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by oxyjohn

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I still don't understand why the authorities don't insist upon all airports having the new type of scanner. If people are worried that their rights are infringed, they han stay at home of get the bus.

Simple really.

Amsterdam has the new fully body scanners, the operator obviously wasn't paying attention or perhaps the thing really isn't that good.

Or maybe transit passengers are not re-scanned?

**S Landreth** · 29-12-2009, 09:40 AM

More information,..................

It is a six-inch long packet of the high explosive chemical called PETN, less than a half cup in volume, weighing about 80 grams.

A government test with 50 grams of PETN blew a hole in the side of an airliner. That was the amount in the bomb carried by the so-called shoe bomber Richard Reid over Christmas 2001.

The underpants bomb would have been one and a half times as powerful.

Link: http://www.americablog.com/2009/12/abc-gets-photos-of-bombers-explosive.html

**Muadib** · 29-12-2009, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by oxyjohn

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I still don't understand why the authorities don't insist upon all airports having the new type of scanner. If people are worried that their rights are infringed, they han stay at home of get the bus.

Simple really.

Amsterdam has the new fully body scanners, the operator obviously wasn't paying attention or perhaps the thing really isn't that good.

Or maybe transit passengers are not re-scanned?

It was reported this morning that the new scanners were only in use for European flights... Smart, innit...

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