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Security FAIL: Mythbuster Says He Passed TSA Scan With 12-Inch Razor Blades

Since airport security horror stories seem to be the prevalent news item at the moment, Eyeblast released this video Tuesday which shows Adam Savage speaking to an audience at an event called wOOtstock 2.0 in Seattle last May. Savage, of Mythbusters fame, claims that he accidentally passed through one of the new controversial full-body scanners carrying two “12-inch razor blades.”

Content warning: contains some graphic language.

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  • on.second.thought
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:02am

    In October of this year, I went through TSA with a carry-on that had several containers of lotion, shampoo and such – all over the limit. Forgetting that I had packed those items in my larger bag, I emptied my purse of ALL liquids and creams – like a good citizen. The carry-on bag went through TSA without a hitch. It wasn’t until I retrieved my belongings from the conveyor belt on the other side, that I realized what had just occurred. I calmly collected my stuff, smiled at the security agents and headed nervously to my gate – all the while BAFFLED at the inconsistencies of our “National Security”. It just proves that no matter what security measures are taken…there will always be mistakes. The plane could be loaded with explosives, but if no one on the plane intends to detonate them… then there is NO THREAT. The people are the threat not the “items”. Can anyone one say “box knives”? Anything can become a weapon in the wrong hands. TSA needs to look at the PEOPLE not the STUFF.

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  • jzs
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:58pm

    Obama is so totally weak on terrorists. He loves them, he love Osama Bin Laden, and supports Muslins in any way he can. Obama intends to bring Sharia Law to the US, along with a bunch of Muslims. So why is he accepting these invasive methods designed to prevent terrorists from penetrating American airplanes? Why all the murderous drone attacks on the Taliban in Pakistan? Because he loves terrorists, and he’s trying to provide cover for his actions. Perfect illusion. He’s covered his trail, and deprived Americans of their rights, and is promoting child molestation and pornography all at the same time! Nice try prez, but we’ve figured it out.

    Obama, drop it okay? If terrorist blow up a plane, that’s your fault. You’re love terrorists. So let them bring their PETA bombs in to prove. STOP THE PRETENSE!

    jzs  
  • Colossus 27
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:55pm

    That’s Funny!!

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  • ThrowDBumsOut
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:50pm

    What amazes and dismays me most about this is that of all the post and responses here not one of you mentioned the violation of our 4th amendment rights. You are more concerned about embarrassment and groping than about the idea that our gov’t can search you with no warrant or probable cause, They can arrest you and fine you if you don’t comply, but all you’re worried about is the embarrassment and the groping aspect.

    If you think this will stay confined the the airports you’re out of your mind. The first time something happens at a coffee shop or a store you’ll start being searched there.

    Do any of you consider that by searching everyone they are presuming guild till proven innocent?!

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  • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:45pm

    I have a question. What will be required of us when the terrorists figure out a way to pack explosives into prosthetic knee, shoulder and hip joints? Will they want to look inside our incisions?

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:10am

      We need good sniffer dogs!!! And no, I don’t mean BAD THUNDER

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  • MonroeFan
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:43pm

    I was on a flight not long after 9/11 and found 2 12″ aluminum knitting needles and showed them to the flight attendant. She said those were okay. Umm, not in the hands of trained killers. I couldn’t believe it. Just amazing.

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:08am

      Because they weren’t trained then and not much better trained now.

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  • adifftake
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:36pm

    When you go though the body pat down and the touch you why not fake an orgasm?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:44pm

      Hey we are not allowed to say “ Oh God” in a government building , donchano ??

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  • Star Spangled
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:33pm

    WOW , now that’s security !

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:30pm

    the unions are scum, the administrators at TSA are Obama Boys and you really expect these morons to protect you .. if someone wants to do something bad enough they will find away .. all of this crap is just giving you a false sense of security

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    • on.second.thought
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:11am

      Very true…I think they‘re hoping for American’s to beg for RFID chips or eye scanners. Beck calls it the Overton Window….1984 here we come!

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  • The Dad
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:25pm

    Looks like the myth was BUSTED wonder when this will air on discovery????

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  • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:25pm

    If the mythbusters are able to do so, then so can the terrorists, Obama sanctioned or otherwise.

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  • CultureWarriors
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:23pm

    Bad Thunder – ROTFLMAO! I don’t fly again until the first of the year – I’ll see then ;-) … I didn’t know Adam was such a comedian either!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoEUTqhYmA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN9f9clmig

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  • pattybbb1
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:23pm

    couldn’t resist that one could you, BadThunder??

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  • procopper7005
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:22pm

    First of all “profiling” is not illegal. Racial profiling IS. Every wonder how you get selected to go to a scanner?
    Look above you and you will see hundreds of black camera domes. There are TSA behavior specialist who look for certain things and radio to the screeners (look for the supervisor with the radio air bud) to send you to screening. This is called profiling. Cops do it all the time, perfectly legal. i.e. a person wearing a heavy coat in the summer time lurking in an alley way is going to get stopped rather than a person just walking home down the alley way. Its called criminal profiling.

    What they do in Israel is much more. They run a criminal background check through their police and even intelligence agency on every passenger they also interview certain passengers from certain countries. Its similar to going through a secondary screening at a border crossing in the US where they check your prints, interview you, actually look into who you are and who you associate with. Very impractical to do this to 70 million people in the US who fly each year.
    If you are a single person who shows up 2 hours before a flight and pays cash with a one way ticket you can bet they will look at you closer.

    TSA agents arent cops, they have no arrest authority, they also have no criminal investigation training at all. They are low level inspectors, thats it. These arent security experts. They just went to the TSA 5 week basic screener class in Oklahoma City.

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:05am

      I’m all for profiling. It makes sense as opposed to this complete nonsense. This pc idea of trying to be fair to everyone is ridiculous and wasteful on so many levels.

      A few years back (before it got out of hand) I was marked to be checked out more thoroughly and it irritated me a bit at first. Now I don’t know if I was profiled, it seemed to be totally random, but I got over it quick. I’m willing to put up with some inconvenience and longer lines to be safe, but this is crossing the line. There’s more effective ways to protect ourselves and all other options should be on the table first, from legal profiling to trained dogs.

      Anyway I like your statement. I think TSA would be much more effective hiring Israeli trainers (and ex-military trainees) and start by asking skilled questions first.

      There’s my two cents.

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  • Audax_23
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:22pm

    Well he certainly busted the myth that this is making us all much safer….

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  • avgconservative
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:13pm

    Hey, the unions are scum, the administrators at TSA are Obama Boys, the line worker is Ok… just doing their job. Leave them alone. They were ordered to do that groping or lose their job. Tough keeping jobs today. Back off the line worker with TSA.

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    • MissCherryJones
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:31pm

      Thank you! Obviously, as with all things, there are TSOs who are overzealous idiots. But the majority are just working stiffs like everybody else.
      LEAVE THEM ALONE.
      Stop making stupid comments at their expense. It’s the bosses that make the rules.

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 9:41pm

      yeah? and the guards at the concentration were only following orders too!

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:12pm

    You know what? Thanksgiving is 2 days away. Let’s pray for a very safe journey for everyone this holiday season.

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:28pm

      I second that motion.

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:19am

      I’ll take that prayer. We’re driving 14 hours to avoid an hour flight (which would of been more like 5 hours with all the grabbing and groping first)

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    • alienguns
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:30am

      I’m for that one also–I am not traveling this year but I hope all that do have a safe journey

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    • alienguns
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:38am

      roseofsharon….I actually like driving–awhile back me and my wife and my brother and his wife were going to Las Vegas–the girls didn’t want to drive so they flew and my brother and I drove–it is an 8 hour drive to Vegas–the girls had to drive to SLC to catch a plane–that is a 3 hour drive to catch the plane then the plane ride—My brother and I were resting in the room for at least 30 minutes before the wives got there—they couldn’t believe we beat them to Vegas

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  • TheBees
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 11:00pm

    I just hope the Jack Booted Thugs at the TSA don’t try to come after him now! Although it wouldn’t surprise me one bit!

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  • mooshoo
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:59pm

    The Political Correctness is killing us.
    Bring back PROFILING!

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:55pm

    If this guy looked like a middle-eastern muslim with a name like Muhammed al Jalil bin farteen , he would have been able to do the same except he would NOT have been scanned or groped !

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:43pm

    You want to stop the complaints, get rid of the same sex groping and turn it over to babes and hunks and have it opposite sex groping. Complaints will disappear. (Except for a select few which are currently enjoying the same sex thing)

     
  • C.ChristieJ.Bolton2012
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:42pm

    I’ve accidently cared a Leatherman multi-tool through security. The TSA agent was more concerned with my 3 watches than anything else.

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    • Rob
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:10am

      I have accidentally called Letterman a tool.

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  • PeterThePainter
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:41pm

    Well I guess the apitomy is they have taken thousands of $10 an hour security guards…made them official TSA agents and now the President gave them the go ahead to unionize….so they will be 80K a year with benefits and representation at tax payer expense…..Live long Live Stong or Die….Which one is

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    • PeterThePainter
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:45pm

      Oh ya, 67,000 TSA agents @ 8B per year….what a return on this one….

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:43am

      Yeah and when the traveling public stops traveling then what will they do with all those unionized Gov’t workers. They have no jobs to do then so what will they do fire them??? I doubt it…

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  • aLinedog
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:41pm

    No real surprise here, standardized procedures become routine then lapses occur. I’m surprised it has taken 9+years for it to happen myself. Luckily he didn’t get caught, the TSA might decide he did it on purpose to embaress them. And if you think this proves the TSA and DHS are failures, then you clearly are unaware of their true long-term purpose.
    I wasn’t gonna comment at all and backed out.. then I realized I could claim first. :D Of course, now I am not, I take too long putting together my comments. Congrats to whomever beat me to the key.. oh, it’s an key now. Anyroad, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
    -Line

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 23, 2010 at 10:36pm

    This is perfect. I feel so much more secure now.

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    • Boss J
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:13am

      Back when it was just the metal detectors my friend and I were working out of state and flying every week or 2 on 1 way last minute tickets and he got through with a shirt pocket full of 3 inch screws.
      Not that he could have done much damage with them, but the metal detector never even beeped!

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:24am

      Machines can only do so much. We need highly trained people to look at the flight logs, ask the right questions and catch the inconsistencies that are unique to the terrorist… and when in doubt have a highly trained dog sniff ‘em

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    • alienguns
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:28am

      BOSSJ—and I can’t get through with finger nail clippers—lol

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:26am

      I remember in Paris a few years ago, they had metal detectors and bags searches at the entrance to all “museums” – but the metal detectors weren’t plugged in. The appearance of security was more important than actual security. Is the TSA devolving to that?

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 5:38am

      I got through one time with 4.5 ounces of shampoo…

      And an 8″ knife I forgot to take out from my hunting trip…It was a mistake, but they were totally incompetent and did not find it. Two flights and not an eyebrow raised!

      Unionizing the TSA will make me feel soooooooooo much better. Then i know I can get a beat down by a Union Thug if I have this kind of mental lapse, well that is if they were to accidentally find it that is!

      The TSA is a joke. To unionize them will be a bigger joke.

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    • Sam I am
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:06pm

      What? You didn’t know the screenings are just Kabuki theater?

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