[nagdu] Metal Detector Re: Full Body Scanning Machines

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

If you are willing to do this and do not want to set off the metal detector, 
you can buy some sort of leash/rope that has a loop on the end that can be 
made into a slip collar that does not have any metal. This is what I do.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines


> Don't know how this is supposed to work. Is it dangerous for the dogs to 
> go
> into the scanner?
>
> Guess I will see how all this works. Joe and I are flying to Texas for
> thanksgiving. I am a bit anxious, but not much I can do about it. 
> Yesterday,
> while on the way to school, there was a radio program with women who flew,
> and was having the "pat-down". But from her accounts the "pat-down" is 
> more
> like being sexually assaulted. And I thought it was just her account of 
> the
> events but, there were other women calling into the program, saying the 
> same
> thing. That for women who are being patted-down, the people who touch your
> very private areas, and even under the breasts. I understand the need for
> security at the airport, But. But. But. This is in my opinion; you can 
> take
> it or leave it, a clear violation of our privacy.
>
> And from what I heard and have read, is if someone sets off the metal
> detector, then you're "patted-down" or full body scanned. Now who of us 
> with
> our dogs, is not going to set off the metal detectors. I usually go 
> through
> the metal detector, without my dog. But because she sets it off, I get
> searched too, not just her. Doesn't make much sense to me.
>
> Like I said, just my two cents.
>
> Marsha
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Toni Whaley
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:39 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines
>
> Hello!
>
> Does anyone know what the rules are for blind people with canes or dogs 
> now
> that the full body machine has been installed in most airports? What do we
> do with the dog while we're being scanned? or do we have to submit to the
> more intrusive patdown?
>
> Toni
>
>
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