So now instead of a few employees at the airport the entire world knows he has a tiny penis? He should have thought this plan through a little better.

Growers-not-showers are so fucking delicate. I am one, so I know.

I recently went through one of these. The photos are creepily naked looking. I'd rather have a pat down by a woman than three creepy TSA agents staring at my nude body in the name of "security."

If I can't request a patdown I am not flying anymore

Seriously. If this guy had half a brain he would have filed a sexual harassment lawsuit... though after a year of this abuse I can't exactly fault him for snapping.

I, for one, look forward to seeing Megan Fox's ghostly visage on TMZ.

@6 Think about how valuable those pics would be. Valuable enough for someone to lose their job and pay their lawyer?

Ok so maybe not Megan Fox but there is someone out there that has a valuable naked picture. Maybe it is a celebrity, maybe it is a politician.

Seeing how all the anti-gay bigots get caught sucking dick I figure we will find a pro full body scanning politician busted by one of these machines for something incriminating soon.

You KNOW they're going to use them for pr0n.

That's what they do.

You can take the images and flip the negative to get a full color shot of full-frontal...viva photoshop!

Get over yourselves, prudes!
If this offends your "modesty", you don't fly!
If you "have" to fly, junk that archaic, lame "morality" of yours.
If you are worried what people will think, NEVER leave your home at all! (Even better bonus -thinning the annoying humans from the airport).

This is a valuable tool in preventing airline terrorism. Suck it up. Nobody really cares about your pee-pee or your jelly. You don't have a "right" to fly.

@10,

You're that much of a scared little pussy, aren't you?

Nobody really cares about your pee-pee or your jelly.

This guys' harassment at the hands of his coworkers proves you wrong, dumbass.

That scanning technology makes a lot of transgenders cranky.

@11 - So now we know who has an ugly pee-pee and tons of jelly!

I wonder how frequently people go through these scanners with raging boners. I think it would be fun for people to mess with the security folks by going through with ridiculous cock rings or some spikey Gwar Edition vagazzle.

i just announced y'day that i'm going to stuff a couple of oranges down my pants every time i go thru one of these things

Well airport security is going to be in for a BIG suprise when I walk through one of those things...

I thought the latest models of these things had software that converted your tiny wang/giant clit into a generic modest mannikin-esque mound.

@5 that's a brilliant point. Several thousand dollars are much more satisfying than being fired for assaulting co-workers.

Perhaps all men should all work up a boner before going through the scanner. that will give them something to look at. I wonder if it could be called indecent exposure if not visable otherwise?

Rickey
This has to be the most entertaining and funniest blog post I have come across. Great dialogue.

Those of us with big dicks have nothing to hide.

@5 Exactly what I thought when I read this story. Blatant sexual harassment.

@13,

So you are as stupid as you look!

This will likely create a black market in travel, with small operators willing to take people places to avoid scanners. Fucking 1984, this crap.

Anyway, the way to stop terrorism is to STOP GIVING PEOPLE REASONS TO ATTACK YOU.

There are a million and one possibly ways to set off a bomb and hurt people. It is fundamentally impossible to close off every opportunity. Far better to go straight to the root: Eliminate the reasons for weak political players to take up arms in a guerilla war against you.

But its probably far more fun to keep feeding the war machine and build technologies to look at your citizenry's wieners.

Can I get one of these scanners to pre-screen guys I date? There's nothing worse than finding the hot, smart, sensitive, perfect guy ...only to find out too late that he has a micro penis. What a waste!

@20

Call me!

@23: given that the propensity of the rest of the planet is to blame america for maliciously engineering every slight they perceive (i.e. the Greeks are blaming Obama for the austerity measures the EU & the IMF are forcing on them), just the existence of the USofA gives terrorists a reason to attack us.

not that we haven't been blatant douchebags for centuries, but quitting Af., Iraq, and dismantling our global corporate/military empire would not be 100% effective in demotivating terrorists.

My normal sized dick is way too small.

One solution: The growers-not-showers out there should demand that airports provide a free, pre-scan fluff.

Seriously, this is a fucking travesty.

I'm not sure what's creepier -- bombs on planes, or a line full of dudes with their hands in their pockets giving junior a little attention to make sure he looks good on camera?

I'm kind of pleased by the thought of men having to have their bodies on display for 30 seconds the way women do pretty much constantly. Everyone knows how fat I am and how big my boobs because I don't wear a burka. Now men's intimate business is up for show for a moment, and it's the End of Privacy.

The anecdote about Shahrukh Khan sounds pretty hoax-y to me. The guy had an ax to grind (he was making a documentary about racial profiling at airports), and then he makes an unverifiable claim that's also self-flattering. (I'm so famous and beautiful that the airport security guards wanted my autograph of my body scan... right....)

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/shahruk…

I don't like the body scanners personally, and I doubt that their security is airtight. However, the concept that there's a color printer hooked up to them and an operator just needs to hit "ctrl-p" button (or the equivalent) to make instant printouts of naked body scans sounds ludicrous.

A more realistic possibility is a security guard taking a snap with a cell phone camera, or just making a private "haw-haw" at someone's expense. However, anyone who has to look at hundreds of naked people every hour will probably get pretty bored and inured to the nudity pretty quickly.

@30,

It's pretty easy to tell how fat a man is and how big his boobs are without seeing him naked.

@31,

Boredom also results in the childish behavior Paul's talking about. Once the novelty of seeing nekkid women wears off, I'd bet they'd switch to cruelly demeaning any fatties unfortunate enough to walk through that scanner.

@28 for the win!