Fed up with being forced to repeatedly walk through a metal detector even though he wasn’t carrying any bombs, a man decided to find an alternate way to get through airport security.
When he emerges out the x-ray machine to protesting security workers, he throws his arms up like, “what, you just saw my insides, what are you gonna do about it?” and walk away while the guards ineffectually gesture after him.
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If they would have turned the xray machine on all that radiation beaming through his body probably would have given him super powers.
not to procreate.
The airport scanners are actually weaker than the medical ones, so go through it is safer than a chest xray.
When reading this, for some reason.. Real Men of Genius ran through my head…
Mr. Xray yourself at the airport guy…
With the backup singer going “you just saaaaaawwww his insiiiiiiides”
Best reply ever.
NICE!!!!
Upvoted!
Wait, I thought I was still on reddit.
+1 Internets to you good sir
I really hope this is fake.
I suspect as much. There are very few people in line behind him, and I really doubt that those humorless TSA prigs who often work the security check points would let him walk away like that. I think this was a bunch of employees making a viral video.
They’re not speaking English, so
I don’t have sound, so I didn’t know that. Regardless, I stand by my comment, minus the “TSA” part.
you know that the tsa doesn’t operate outside of the united states, yeah?
It looks old, back before 9/11 where they didn’t even pretend to give a shit.
Ah, an oldie but a goodie.
I’m calling B.S. on this one.
Who stands around taking video of airport security waiting for shit to go down?
The BS is indeed stinky.
Find me an airport where one would be allowed to stand around and take video of the screening process.
Is that ILLEGAL? I think not. http://carlosmiller.com/
What if the person holding the camera was travelling with Mr. XRay? Then he could have gotten a heads-up to whip out the cell phone camera. Maybe the camera guy knew that Mr. XRay had problems with metal detectors and Mr. XRay told him, “If that thing beeps on me one more time…!”
Really?
No video of the beatdown? :sigh:
~cough~
le-sigh
he may have a metal implant, and there may be a language barrier preventing him from explaining this to the security. But still, you would need an expert to explain whether the level of X-rays is that harmful.
Since they drastically reduced the power of X-rays back in the 80′s so people could pass their photographic film through most of the time without an issue, I expect the power of the machines is less than people routinely experience in the 50′s and 60′s when being routinely checked for tuberculosis. Plus, he looks old enough that any potential of sterility wouldn’t concern him much.
My MIL comes over from Europe every year. Her passport expires at death, so there’s no expiration date, just the word “death” in her language. The guys at Homeland Security either don’t have translators or never have them available, so they ask her what it means in English. She leans back, closes her eyes, and crosses her arms across her chest. They still don’t understand.
Tell her to slide a finger across her throat, then roll her eyes up towards the back of her head while closing her eyelids and stick out her tongue.
…and subsequently get tackled out of nowhere for making threats to a government “agent”.
Or she could just learn the word in English.
I learn a few words in any language when I travel to a new country. It’s not really that much of a burden.
Need a tune-up on your humor chip, there?
I worked scanning packages for a time. IIRC, according to the state guy who certified our machine (which is the same make/model many airports use), there is not radioactive stuff in the machine, it generates the xrays. Also, even if all the shielding wasn’t there, like it all disintegrated, the amount you could be exposed to was extremely small, small enough not to effect you for the small tile he was in there. Also, many have sensors inside, so if someone sticks a hand/something too large in, it turns the machine off.
If you carefully watch him climb out of the machine, it’s clear that the belt isn’t running.
Upon inspecting the x-ray video, the man was actually a pinata filled with candy goodness. The airport security then beat him until he split open and poured out all that deliciousness.
Mcfakensteak.
I have a hard time believing the X-Ray operator wouldn’t hit the big red E-Stop button as soon as the guy hopped on the belt. Honestly, if you sat near a big red button for hours every day, wouldn’t you jump at the chance to finally press it?
Do you mean the HISTORY ERASER BUTTON? The the big red button? the jolly candylike button?”
Was that seriously an old-school Ren and Stimpy reference?
Totally. You eeediot.
WIN!
Now I must find a place/way to say “You coveteth my ice cream bar!” to someone today.
Only works if you’d had that ice cream bar since you were a child.
Awesome. http://jollycandylikebutton.ytmnd.com/
Re: “When he emerges out the x-ray machine to protesting security workers …”
Isn’t “out the” a feature of urban grammar? Ben be tryin’ ta be hip, yo.
Obviously staged, as there doesn’t appear to have been anything note-worthy going on when the video starts, so why else would he have been recording it?
Well since the article said repeatedly I thought maybe someone start filming as the guy became agitated and had to keep going through it.
But you know, fake also works. I still find it amusing.
He happened to have a camera on him when he decided to do this?
Aha! He was packing titi monkeys!
Obviously staged. One man’s 15 seconds of Internet fame.
Now that man is a hero.
Somehow I get the feeling his son USED to work for an airline…
If he really did this, he’s a complete moron. Too much x-ray exposure for me – and now he’s probably sterile (FTW!) and has probably screwed up other body parts… Might get cancer as a result of being a complete nitwit…
… and they let THIS guy on the plane? Geezus… talk about security theater…
He probably has a metal implant and got sick of people strip-searching him every time he flies.
Glad to know that foreign screeners are more ineffectual than here in the US.
Gotta give the old man credit though for trying!
He’s lucky that some trigger-happy TSA agent having a bad day, didn’t shoot first and ask questions later.
Obviously fake. Camera’s and video equipement are forbiden in security area’s.
Too bad screwed-up possessive’s and plural’s, plus mispeling’s, arent.
why dont they make all of us do that? No like seriously, being able to see the shape of everything your wearing is better than just knowing that you don’t have anything metal on you.
Then of course, there will be the person that doesn’t want someone looking at their junk… :/
obviously this will not be ‘put up with’ in today’s ‘don’t joke with us about anything’ TSA attitude. FAKE