Worried about being exposed during TSA security checks at the airport? What you may want is a pair of “Jeff Buske underwear†from his company “Rocky Flats Gear.†The TSA-proof underwear contains shields to block x-rays from your tender and private parts. Available for both men and women, the products are marketed to protect you from medical x-rays and background radiation as well.
The underwear has a flower design directly over the wearer’s genital areas filled with a metal powder to block radiation as used in airport body scanners. The device is also available as bra inserts or sewn on the bra it self. They also make TSA-proof underwear for children. Jeff Buske claims no intent to make a political message with his product. However, being promoted during the current bickering over TSA procedures will surely improve his game.
Earlier, reports were circulating of a product called “Flying Pasties.†It also is designed to cover one’s privates during the TSA body scans. They are promoted as, “The Original Airport Scanner Protectors for Men and Women. Reusable Vanity Inserts. Safe. Necessary.†These pasties come with a variety of messages, included one with an up-raised middle finger. Maybe this can make airport screening fun?
Jeff Buske Underwear and Flying Pasties are just a couple of TSA-proof  and anti-TSA on the market benefiting from people who do not care about security and think they know better than the experts do. The underwear bomber had no idea he would create all this and become famous for it. It seems people are out there raising cane about the TSA procedures and others are making money from their efforts. Some people think conservatives have incorporated the issue in their program to discredit the president and inflame the public. Entrepreneurs have having a field day taking advantage of the paranoia blown around by the political types. America, what a wonderful country!
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Comments: 13
Another passenger recorded the incident and put it on YouTube. I am disgusted by the adults in that situation who did nothing to protect the child's feelings and dignity.
You really have to wonder what these adults do outside of work. Do they have a life that beats them down so they go to work and exert their authority like a bunch of a-holes?
I remember once I was rushing for a flight because I was late and there was NO ONE in line to be checked because every one was boarding so I went under the ropes in a straight line to the counter and the a-hole there actually made me go back to the beginning and zig-zag all the way to the counter again. Seriously! What a jerk.
As for the little boy, I take it that they have to pat down every tenth person going through.
I don't think anyone should be touching our kids.
What frightens me is how th Federal Government believes they can force the population be be irradiated without concern for the populations health.
As airports around the world make wider use of full-body scanners in an attempt to improve security, a debate is stirring about the health risks of exposing millions of people to small doses of radiation, which some experts say could contribute to a few additional cancer deaths a year.
Airport body scanners emit radiation up to 20 times more powerful than previously thought, a scientist has warned
The most lucrative growth industry of our times is the “terror†business. Legions of companies lusting for government contracts are churning out police state technology at a frantic pace. In the last 17 months, TSA has received over 30,000 proposals for Big Brother technology and equipment needed to keep 280 million citizen-suspects under careful surveillance from the inside out.
Big winners include companies whose equipment is assisting TSA’s Advanced Technology Checkpoint Project to nudify airline passengers. Digital Security Systems of Miami is promoting its ConPass Security Body Scanner, which can perform virtual cavity searches using deeply penetrating X-radiation. Company engineer Thomas Wiggins says the scanner can detect explosives hidden inside bodies or surgically implanted under flabby folds of skin. Wiggins admits that before 9-11, “The thought of using an X-ray system would have been like ordering our own death sentence.†Now Wiggins claims that the ConPass scanner “could scan a pregnant woman around 200 times without a health risk.â€
Virtually all passengers and airline crews who pass through airport screening checkpoints in the U.S. may soon be forced to submit to compulsory, whole-body X-ray exposure. Some fliers could be “fried†several times in one day. Frequent fliers could get hit hundreds of times each year. Pregnant women, infants, the chronically ill and immune suppressed would get the rays.
By what authority does the United States Government have to technologically look inside my body ?
Besides, I believe all this is for naught as the next terror wave will be contagions carried by 100's of 'suicide' warriors.
Lately everyone seems upset about the new TSA. However, now with word of a "forced-patdown-to-purposely-delay-people-getting-home-to-their-families protest" I am hoping to spread enlighten a few of us.
Rather than delay people getting home and upset TSA workers (who probably don't want to touch you any more than I would), I propose a different approach. I propose we exercise our rights of free speech and go in the skimpiest outfits possible (legally that is). Think of it as the last time to show off those toned bodies before they get ruined by stuffed turkey and pecan pie (mmmmm.... pie).
I call it, "Drop to your Drawers Day", or better yet DD Day (NOTE: This is not "Drop your Drawers Day" so please show SOME decency).
I propose you tell the TSA how you feel. Tell them, "This is how you make me feel.. Naked!"
The TSA currently doesn't seem to get the big picture. We support your efforts for security. Better yet, we applaud them. All we ask for is a little improvements like (but not limited to):
1. Privacy: If you are seeing me naked in Texas, you should not be able to see my face, and be located in Idaho (or somewhere else far far away)
2. Dignity: If you are going to feel me up, at least do it where no one else can watch, not on display for the entire airport.
3. Information: Inform me when I go through a device, that the person watching is going to see probably more than my significant other. And if I refuse, I will get flat out groped.
4. Rights: Inform me of my rights, that I can leave or that I have no choice. Whatever, just let me know before stamping me with an $11K fine afterward!
And finally, 5. Service: Treat me as a human being; we need service, not to be serviced.
Thank you, and here's hoping everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving (hoping everyone is actually able to make it to their families in time).