Word: detectors
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...Once there was a vent with a string attached and the motion detector kept picking up the string and setting off the alarm. We got the same alarm call three times in one day,” DiVirgilio laughs...
...easy to feel intimidated, even anxious (will my fillings set off the metal detector? Will the guards be unimpressed with my choice of reading material?), but it's amazing what you can adjust to in just a few days - and what routines become, well, routine. Since arriving here in Salt Lake City, I've acquainted myself with the intricacies of metal detectors, learned that no one cares what book I'm reading, and formulated a special dance step that helps me sail through the endless security screenings: Step, unzip coat, open coat, twirl, take off ski hat, move through...
...Another incident involved a well-endowed woman, her push-up bra and a totally clueless National Guardsman who, hearing the shrill wail of his metal detector wand each time it passed over this woman's chest, stood there for at least five minutes, his brow knitted, waving the wand back and forth, over and over again, never realizing what he faced was not a security threat but an extremely sturdy brassiere. Finally, his female colleague noticed what was going on and stepped over and whispered something in his ear. He blushed and waved the poor woman through the entrance...
...representative John Dingell was asked to drop his pants at Washington's National Airport last week, some people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we'd lost our collective minds. A near strip search of a 75-year-old Congressman whose artificial hip has set off a metal detector--while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe--isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete...
TRUE LIES Next time you tell a little white lie to your spouse or boss, be sure they're not holding a Truster. This portable lie detector from DreamQuest analyzes sonic waves in the voice for signs of stress and claims 85% accuracy; it even plugs into cell phones. Campaigning politicians everywhere, beware...