Viral Video About Body Scanners

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Can someone else tag it too with my tags and it might show up on their page...?

OK, this is the most shocking thing I've seen in a while...

I've never seen anything so awesomely refuted. Even if you don't speak German, watch it. Basically, they do a scan of the man, who claims to be carrying a swiss army knife, and only find a mobile and the microphone transmitter on the back that's inevitable since they're on TV.

However, the man is carrying thermite (three vials), an igniter for the thermite, a vial that can contain even more explosive and a normal igniter.

They claimed that in an airport situation he'd be wearing the jacket and that they'd also have done a side view. Which is funny because these scanners can penetrate clothing while showing skin - that's the whole point of them... and a side view wouldn't have helped much considering that he was carrying something in his mouth and near his lower back.

They take the stuff (which is made from materials available in any pharmacy for a 'few cent') outside that he carried in his lower back area and set it on fire, which melts through the pan.

One of the body-scanner people calls the whole thing 'limitedly funny'. Then he says that "I don't know if we're well advised if we say 'look how stupid the terrorists are' if they'd do it like a professor advises, 'then we could bring down a 747'".

The professor moves the pan a bit and the whole thing ignites a bit more. The whole screen turns white before the camera person decides to move back a little.

The spelling and grammatical errors tell you within 5 seconds that this person is not very intelligent.

  For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our 
  technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA 
  conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies 
  in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them 
  out to the entire field.

This is a run-on sentence.

  Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the 
  field and has found things artfully concealed on 
  passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on 
  down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. 

"on down" is faulty parallelism.

  It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic 
  and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go   
  BOOM.

Two ellipses in one sentence? Leave aside the "BOOM".

  With all that said, it is one layer of our 20 layers of 
  security (Behavior Detection, Explosives Detection 
  Canines, Federal Air Marshals, , etc.) 

Extra comma and the capitalization feels bizarre.

  and is not a machine that has all the tools we need in one 
  handy device. We’ve never claimed it’s the end all be all.

The phrase is "the be all and end all" or "the be-all and end-all". One can go on, but almost every sentence here displays this person's low level of intelligence. Leaving aside the content, it's just poorly written.

The punchline is that the TSA's budget is double that of Facebook's $3.7 billion in revenue. $8.1 billion in tax dollars for a gang of complete morons.

Uneducated. "That's, like, uniquely american!" -G. W. Bush.

I read the first paragraph, scanned the rest of it and assumed that it was satire. Checked the url, that looked right so I thought maybe they got hacked. It's unbelievable.