[nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines

[Tracy Carcione]

I use the same method as Mike.  Benny loves the pat-down.  He's apt to
hand out free kisses to the person doing the patting.

It's a considerable relief to me to know I won't get X-rayed every time I
go to the airport.
Tracy

> Everyone will proceed through security in their own way.  I, for example,
> get to the opening of the standard portal, drop the harness and tell
> Africa
> to sit and stay, drop the leash and then go through the detector.  Once on
> the other side I call her.
>
> The advantage of this approach is that I do not set off the detector and
> thus generally never face a more rigorous patdown or body scan.  Africa
> comes through the detector and always gets a full patdown which is never
> long enough for her taste.
>
> As someone else said on this list don't make the new proceedures more than
> what they are.  If you don't set off detectors you usually won't get
> searched anyway.  Act friendly, engage the TSA folks in a friendly way,
> and
> you won't have a problem.
>
> I have a goal every time I go to the airport of getting TSA people to
> laugh.
> It works and I don't have problems with them.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Marsha Drenth
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:12 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> 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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