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Columnist: My Left Breast Put TSA Scanner To The Test

First Posted: 4/10/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Politics Daily:

A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast.

After I sauntered sleepily through the regular scanner at Denver International Airport, the TSA guy motioned me into the clear, cylindrical, full-body scanner (aka, the Millimeter Wave). The woman there asked me to step on the yellow footprints and raise my arms above my head. She murmured into a headset to start the scan. There was a quick motion through the plexiglass. She asked me to turn, step on the green footprints and hold my arms straight out. Another scan.

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A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast. After I sauntered sleepily through the regular scanner at Denver Internatio...
A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast. After I sauntered sleepily through the regular scanner at Denver Internatio...
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