Body Scanner Operator Caught Masturbating at Colorado Airport


DENVER - USA - A full body scanner operator was caught masturbating during a scanning session by airport staff late Tuesday.


Airport officials at Denver International airport were on high alert yesterday when a full body scanner operator was caught masturbating in his booth as a team of High School netball players went through the scanner.

"The young ladies were going through the scanner one by one, and every time one went through, this guys face was getting redder and redder. His hand was moving and then he started sweating. He was then seen doing his 'O' face. That's when the security dragged him out of his booth and cuffed him. He had his pants round his ankles and everybody was really disgusted," Jeb Rather, a passenger on a flight to New York told CBS news.

The controversial scanners display every minute detail of a person's body and have been called intrusive by privacy campaigners. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual porn shoot. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing highly detailed pictures of genitals, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.

"What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It's up to you, the ball's in your park," head of the TSA's scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.




Not only do the new airport body scanners take risque pictures but according to the U.S. Marshals Service, the images in their thousands are being saved on hard disks

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=124&a=2389

[ Last edited by  Weelock at 12-12-2010 06:56 ]

Seen doing his "O" face... LMAO... classic!

That quote from the head of the TSA is crazy.  Im surprised that he wasn't trained on how to speak more pc in such a public forum.  Personally, I think the body scan's are bit over the top.

I completely agree. Even in normal circumstances that comment would come across as insensitive and extremely harsh. It's even worse considering it comes after one of the scanners was caught masturbating over the body scan images.

Rather than lashing out and justifying the reasons for the scanners, he should have been doing damage control, apologizing for the unacceptable behaviour of one employee, dealing with him appropriately and assuring the public that it was a one-off incident and that it would not be repeated.

If he thinks this is the way to garner support for this technology, he's in for a nasty surprise.

The TSA definitely needs to learn how to do damage control better. The scanners has created a lot more negative publicity than positive. Of course it's not possible to show how many incidents were deterred the TSA hasn't done a good job of validating such an intrusive measure.

has anyone read the other news stories listed in this paper?? i think its more of a joke than real..
have a read of this one http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=2556
seriously... i dont think the source or the reporting is credible.

Sounds like an urban legend to me....  GO home download teen porn, like everyone else, and whack off in the privacy of your own home

Che'lu

maybe with the US economy in such a bad state he couldnt afford an internet line and computer

Weelock - so this is what you do all day!!  Reading the daily squib - established 1862!  LOL!

Come on!
This whole thing is a send-up article! If this really happened, don't you think this would be BIG news which the major newspapers/wire services would also carry?
The follow up article which cnf linked:
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Woman Pregnant After TSA Pat-Down
December 2nd, 2010
by Alora Gomez

Ms Sanchez is now pregnant after a TSA pat-down


FLORIDA - USA - Eighteen year old Carmella Sanchez has been diagnosed pregnant after a sensual TSA pat-down, that some say went a little too far.

Carmella Sanchez, 18, was travelling from Florida to a nunnery in Boston when she went through the TSA check point.

"I want to dedicate my life to Jesus and this is why I want to go and become a nun. My dreams have now been shattered because I'm pregnant. They took my virginity and that was meant for Jesus alone," a distraught Sanchez said in tears from a medical facility in the airport.

TSA spokesman, Marvin Haggler, told Fox News: "We had to check for explosives. Maybe one of our screeners got a little too enthusiastic. We're looking in to getting him a promotion anyway. What you going to do about it? We're above the law."

Ms Sanchez was given a lift to her gate and put on another plane after missing her original flight.

umm.. wow... lol???  

man... he got some balls to start jerking off in the public

this perv has lost his job.. he could have acted innocently before and continue to see thru hot girls bodies.. too late now =D

i would hate to go through this body scanner.. u dont know who is watching you

It's very disgusting. But we cant only blame the operator. coz this is a mistake made by the government.
the operator is just a normal human, that has a limit. when u see through someone's body (HOT girls) every day,
u must be tempted sooner or later.

There's no way this is real.  Who in their right mind would whip it out and whack it in public and think they can get away with it.  Doesn't make sense at all.  On another note, if these images are really being saved and they actually can look sexual, it's only a matter of time before they get out and a big shit storm will hit when that happens.

Haha...such an obvious Onion-style spoof. The comment by the supposed TSA spokesman more or less cements it. That said, the TSA can scan or touch my body all they like as long as they can assure 100% that my flight is safe. Just the price to pay for airline security.

Story is fake.  I had a connecting flight out of Denver last month on my way to California and none of the security guards or police officers heard of such a thing

thanks, it might be true, being fake.  It happened last year in April.  

For being searched, I don't know if I want a KNOWN opened gay guy touching me.    It might be for being a TSA worker, it's the "Do not tell policy like in the Military". Just a stupid joke.

Guys, the dailysquib is a UK equivalent to theonion.com!

Complete spoof.  

Although I bet the job applications for the scanning positions have since shot up !

I think its a joke also when you go through the scanner you have to raise your hands not by your side

His "perv switch" went on. I guess he couldn't control himself like a lot of dentists out there.

Whether it's joke or not, we can always think this is always possible, with such minute detail of female anatomy exposed at your disposal. The best part is that you're actually doing your job while making such observation. But unless you're a sex-deprived perv who can't wait until you reach an emptytoilet cubicle, this act is not something most of us will dare to do at work.