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Originally Posted by Hom3r
I think people are missing the point.
There will be a very very small minority of these scanner operators who have a unhealthy interest in children.
Plus they will only be looking at the screens for <30 seconds
So what do we do then?
Allow kids to be full body scanned, or have them rubbed down?
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Whats stopping some fanatic nutter taking his wife and kid on a plane, and putting the items on the kid.
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There are lots of points in this thread, and I don't think anyone is missing any of them.
The point you are making, about being realistic about the actual number of perverts rather than the News-of-the-World-induced hysterically inflated number, is a very valid one and extends to society at large.
One of the staff at my son's school remarked to me the other week, as I was handing over the finished DVD of the Christmas play, that we were lucky we were still able to record and distribute it. All it takes is one parent to complain and that would be it, no cameras. Thankfully we're a small school and everyone knows everyone else, so that's less likely to happen. But in many larger schools, some parents who believe the hype have long since put a stop to the perfectly innocent pursuit of videoing the children being cute and dressed up for Christmas. And in other places, even where the parents haven't complained, excessively-cautious councils have done it for them.