Why not train more dogs to sniff airline passengers for explosives ...

[Freeper]

spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU!    Tue Nov-16-10 12:41 PM
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Why not train more dogs to sniff airline passengers for explosives ...
   
and avoid all this concern over x-rated scans and intimate pat downs? Perhaps a dog could be used if a person refused to go through the scanner. A trained dog should even be able to detect explosives in a body cavity. Current scanners and pat downs can't.


Are dogs the key to bomb detection at airports?
December 30, 2009|By Chuck Conder and Kara Finnstrom, CNN

How could a man who allegedly had explosives hidden in his underwear have been allowed to board a plane headed for the United States?

Anti-terrorism experts say it never should have happened, and that specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs could have provided a low-tech way to detect such items.

***snip***

About 700 bomb-sniffing dogs currently work at U.S. airports. They are trained to detect up to a dozen different explosive compounds, including PETN, the compound that AbdulMutallab is alleged to have smuggled aboard Northwest flight 253 to Detroit on December 25.

The dogs used by the Transportation Security Administration are trained at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. They patrol airport terminals, check unidentified packages and sniff baggage that raise alarms during X-ray screening. The dogs are not currently used specifically to sniff out explosives on people. But they could be, according to trainer Patrick Beltz.

"A well-trained dog and a very good, well-trained handler can find explosives with little or no false alarms," Beltz said. "And if they had been doing it, it might have deterred him from trying to get on the plane in the first place."
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-12-30/travel/bomb.sniffing...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9569311

Wouldn't that offend our Muslim brothers? And Allah knows we can't offend them.
 

Roma (102 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Nov-16-10 12:46 PM
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6. I think adherents to certain religious groups consider dogs to be
   
unclean and would be offended by being sniffed.

I swear I posted my above comment before reading this post.
That is how good I am at predicting what these idiots will say.

[true_blood]

Roma (102 posts)   Tue Nov-16-10 12:46 PM
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6. I think adherents to certain religious groups consider dogs to be unclean and would be offended by being sniffed.

Again. Too bad. What about those that think by getting felt up/groped by the TSA would be offended? Tell those that consider dogs unclean, tough shit. That's how we do things in America now.

[Evil_Conservative]

Does this DUmmy listen to Michael Savage?

A caller asked a similar question on Savage's show today.

But like Savage said, dogs can't vote for Democrats.

[IassaFTots]

OMG.  I am so laughing right now.....  

Mark Levin's guest host on Monday (daggum, cannot remember his name!) was going on and on and on about having dogs be the screeners.

Does someone out there in DUland listen to Mark Levin?????

[Ralph Wiggum]

Does someone out there in DUland listen to Mark Levin?????

They listen to & watch all the conservative talk shows, even though they hate them so.

I didn't click the link, but did one of the DUmmies complain about this idea because the dogs might find their stash of pot?

[Karin]

No, they didn't, Ralph.  The thread devolved into some yuck yuck jokes about Lab(rador) reports and CAT scans.  Some hand wringer was worried about large dogs scaring people.    

[true_blood]

Does this DUmmy listen to Michael Savage? A caller asked a similar question on Savage's show today. But like Savage said, dogs can't vote for Democrats.

Yeah, I heard that last night as well.
The dogs can't vote communist, wait, I mean democrap, and the dogs won't be able to retire early and earn a killer pension as well.

[TheSarge]

spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU!    Tue Nov-16-10 12:41 PM
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Why not train more dogs to sniff airline passengers for explosives ...

Because your "Animals have constitutional rights too" buddies at PETA would howl and cry in protest.

[crockspot]

Legions of crotch dogs... I love it.