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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:15 PM
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Suspicious Package: TSA Worker Jailed After Junk Joke
Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing.

A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who'd made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent training session.

Rolando Negrin, 44, was busted for assault after things got ugly at Miami International Airport between Negrin and some of his fellow Transportation Security Administration workers on Tuesday.

Sources say Negrin stepped into the machine during the training session and became embarrassed and angry when a supervisor started cracking jokes about his manhood, made visible by the new machine.

According to the police report, Negron confronted one of his co-workers in an employee parking lot, where he hit him with a police baton on the arm and back.

"(Negron) then told victim to kneel down and say 'your sorry,'" the report reads. "Victim stated he was in fear and complied with (Negron)."

Negron was arrested the next day when he arrived for work. He told police he had been made fun of by coworkers on a daily basis.

"(Negron) stated he could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind," the report reads.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/TSA-Fracas-After-Body-Scanner-Reveals-TMI-92971929.html
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:25 PM
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1. nothing bigger than three ounces please.
or we'll have to confiscate it. . . .

So let me be 100% certain I understand this. The software fuzzes out genitalia, that pesky little mantra they keep lying over and over and over again. You know they're lying now for sure.

Not that I care - I stripped my way through college. The only thing I'd be nervous about would be having my DNA unzipped by resonant terawatt interactions just so someone could see my junk. Please. Just give me a dollar and a grope and you won't have to use a machine to see it. I would also venture to say that his coworkers should have been arrested too though . . . . clearly they did something to override this mythical software and invade his privacy and that's pretty serious.

:shrug:

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:29 PM
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2. Oh, but they'll never, e-e-e-ever be abused
I predict a story a week (or even more often) about these scanners, the images they produce and misuse or abuse by somebody at the controls. It won't enhance airline safety one iota, but it will provide an opportunity for a lot of mischief. In the meantime, somebody really dedicated to the proposition of blowing up an airplane will figure out a way to run the swiss cheese security gauntlet. But don't you feel safer having taken your shoes off?
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:57 PM
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11. Yep, welcome to the new taser. Defective, unneeded, and unbannable.
Generating a new story every week as well as constant municipal sales in spite of no real success.
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denverbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:29 PM
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3. Wow. He gets time for aggravated battery but will probably walk away rich.
That was an incredibly abusive act by the supervisor and sounds like sexual harassment and humiliation.

It also exposes the lie about the new machines.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:32 PM
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5. Awesome, kick the shit out of the boss and win
a "hostlie workplace" suit. A twofer.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:31 PM
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4. He should have gotten revenge with a huge lawsuit.
Pretty clear case of workplace harassment.
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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:35 PM
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6. I guess the public will have to endure snickers and awes n/t
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:37 PM
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7. "But I was in the pool -- I was in the pool!!!"
n/t
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:39 PM
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8. LOL!!
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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:40 PM
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9. Sir, you'll have to check the shrunken turtle! n/t
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-10 01:51 PM
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10. he could have just said, "I'm a grower not a shower
:rofl: :rofl:
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