ANOTHER GREAT IDEA FROM AN AVERAGE JOE! WHY AREN'T PEOPLE WITH COMMON SENSE LIKE THIS IN WASHINGTON?

[wildwood]

according to an email I received today..............

Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports:

All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have hidden on or in your body. The explosion will be contained within the sealed booth.

This would be a win-win for everyone. There would be none of this crap about racial profiling and the device would eliminate long and expensive trials.

This is so simple that it's brilliant. I can see it now: you're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system, "Attention, standby passengers! We now have a seat available on flight number..."

[jd_here]

Sounds good to me!

[jake-the-peg]

Was posted 6 months ago

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question911474.html

and the dozens of flaws in the average Joe's brainwave were pointed out then

[oranger]

Mr ibrahim would make a good guinea pig for this idea

[jomifl]

I can't inderstand why people have a problem with body scanners. It isn't as if a bunch of prurient old perverts were looking at your naked body. It is just a graphic depiction based on electronic information from a low resolution scanner. I don't think intimate details are shown although it would probably be tempting providence to go through a body scanner with bits of metal attached to sensitive parts of the body.

[jomifl]

So average Jo knows how to detonate all kinds of explosive substances with some kind of magic ray? He'd better patent it and flog it to the military pretty damn quick as it would be worth a fortune.

[jake-the-peg]

Well apparently if you're a playboy model and baywatch star there's suddenly a lot of competition to run the scanner

http://www.metro.co.u...-over-naked-body-scan