Mythbuster Adam Savage got TWO 12" STEEL RAZOR BLADES through TSA Body Scanner! *VIDEO*
 

...and a pocket full of nuts and bolts.

This is perfect. WTF TSA is right. Shit is so broken.

if true, crazy

I was expecting video of how he did it....

blah disappointing video

He said how he did it. He walked right through the scanner. It did not catch it.

you think he was serious or just using them as props for a joke?

TSA is a fucking joke.

Sounded serious to me.

He had them in his laptop bag, they did not go thru the body scanner. If it is even a true story. The nuts and bolts were in his laptop bag also and as often as I fly I have never seen any sign anywhere saying you can not carry nuts and bolts on a plane.

And personally, I am glad stuff gets thru or I would be in big trouble.

That is highly ridiculous.

Yep he said in his bag. they get scanned but the people running those scanners are usually to stupid or busy checking out the ass in line.

Yeah, you're right. My mistake. Still fucked up.

The video was posted in May. The current body scanners were not out at that point yet. Though even without the body scanners, still laughable.

Worried about bras and miss razor blades.

what is with all the giggling and laughing at every sentence?

Like I said, I am glad it happens. Not sure if you have ever looked at an xray of your laptop bag. Mine also has adapters for other countries, 1:3 outlets, chargers, cameras, batteries, my keys and all kinds of various items, as I am sure his does. Unless you want them to make us dump the contents into a bin, I say let the occasional item slide.

I always found it amusing that I can't bring a pocket knife, but they will gladly furnish me with a knife once we get in the air.

Yeah, it's absurd. You can't bring fingernail clippers through security checkpoints, but on the other side you can often get a metal fork and knife to eat with.

Excellent. Now the terrorists know how to smuggle razor blades onto a plane.

I don't think we need to worry about educating them so much, but these "B-lebs" (and celebs if any) are only going to make it worse. They aren't going to say, "oh well, we missed those razor blades on that one guy, let's scrap the system." They are more apt to say, "oh well, we missed those razor blades on that one guy, let's eliminate carry-on baggage" or " . . ., let's make them place everything down individually on the conveyor belt."

The only thing interesting about this guy is the hottie he gets to work with:

http://www.allmyrc.com/forums/attach...ron-758862.jpg

all i can say is WOOO!! WOOO!! WOOO!! X 10k times as the guy in background was doing

See I found it ridiculous that I was inside the airport (forget which one) at a regular restaurant, past security at the gate area, and they still had plastic forks and knives. WTF? I'm pretty sure you can smuggle in or think of a better weapon than a metal butter knife or dinner fork. Like a ball point pen, maybe. How undignified.

Stay classy, San Diego.

no shit, pics or it didn't happen :)

You crazy old fart!

Stop and have some common sense for once!

Oh, you think they are going to scrap the system because some guy scanning bags missed two long thin items in the bottom of a laptop bag?

Scrap the bullshit program. It does not work.


Lets implemented the Israeli system of profiling. I think they have a better grasp of airport security.

I did not ask you what you thought should be done, I asked you what you thought WOULD be done. You would be the first person here screaming about profiling if TSA adopted the Israeli standard.

the truth is, its easy to get a bomb on a plane.

you simply take the parts on seperatly by 2 or 3 different people and construct it on the plane.

however why bother with a plane?

there are far easer targets.

trains would be a clear and easy target, as blow up a train it could kill more people, plus close the train network down.

The question is why havce there not been regular strikes in both UK and USA.

In the UK the recent attacts were by locals, with low knoledge on bomb making.

When the IRA was active they would strike almost weekly.

I believe this to be a joke.

And if he did not come clean and say that to the audience...shame on him.

Perhaps the video was cut off too early?

I don't believe this was real.

Airport security is a joke. i was flying this summer, and happened to have 2 Bic lighters on me, one in my pocket for use, and one in my luggage. When the scanners detected my lighter in my luggage they made me remove it. Policy says only one lighter per person. They asked if I was traveling with anyone else I could give that lighter to for the flight. I said no, so in the garbage it went, because clearly the difference between a safe flight and taking the whole plane down is somewhere between one and two Bic lighters, and adequate security to prevent such an explosive device is handing the lighter off to the guy sitting next to me.

WTF?

They need to start checking passengers on private jets.

TSA has a 60-70% fail rate, I even saw this on a report on MSNBC.

You would be surprised what you can carry on. I flew about 3 flights round trip with a 4" blade/bottle opener combo in the front of my laptop bag. I bought it in vegas and never took it out. I only noticed when I was going through my bag, but it is a 5" by 1/2" steel plate with two folding out objects... not easy to spot.

With all my flying, Ive been asked only once to surrender an item... it was a week old Mack 3 razor I used once. "Watch out air travelers, he could give you a clean shave" :1orglaugh

Interesting vid, I can't believe he passed with the razors... Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup

Needs a haircut.

The whole TSA thing isn't about security, it's about making money (and a few other things as well, but not about security)

I'm having a difficult time believing that you, of all people, support racial profiling?

What? Like taking Ninja Throwing Stars off Steve Jobs?