A Colorado man thinks he's found a way to protect your private parts from unwanted radiation and government peeping at airports.
Jeff Buske of Larkspur is selling tungsten-lined underwear online, with fibers of the X-ray-repelling material strategically placed over the crotch. He says he's seen his sales skyrocket in the last week, since the Transportation Security Administration began rolling out full-body scanners at several airports and conducting aggressive pat-downs of people who refuse to use them.
"You shouldn't have to be digitally strip-searched or doused with radiation to visit your grandmother," Buske, a 52-year-old electrical engineer, said by phone Monday from New Jersey, where he was trying to find facilities to manufacture more of his undergarments.
Buske hit upon the idea in January after authorities said a Nigerian air passenger unsuccessfully tried to detonate a bomb in his underpants. That led the TSA to speed its deployment of full-body imaging machines across the country. Buske anticipated an inevitable backlash.
He began selling the undergarments in March. The opaque parts are shaped like fig leaves or other designs and positioned over the crotch or, on brassieres, the nipples. Buske peddled them through an ad on the website infowars.com, which tracks the intelligence community, and got so many orders that the servers crashed. He sold the undergarments, which retail for up to $35, at street fairs and to friends.
After a local television station reported on his product last week, sales jumped. Buske said his total orders were in the thousands.
Granny panties anyone?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,4639299.story
(good luck to him before his product gets banned by the Gov)