Airport scanners, Good or Bad?

Hom3r · 26-01-2017, 17:48

Back story first.

Last weekend my Niece's friend and mother came down from Glasgow for a long weekend.

On Sunday I went with them to London, while walking up the stairs from the underground, the mum tripped up the stairs and we all had a laugh, later her foot was huting.

On Monday the flew home and they went through the body scanner, and the operator said "have you a problem with your foot", she said "yes". He then said I think you should see a DR as I think you have broken toes"

She went to A&E and she had broken them.

So is this a good thing, it picked this up?

Mr K · 26-01-2017, 18:04

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

Back story first.

Last weekend my Niece's friend and mother came down from Glasgow for a long weekend.

On Sunday I went with them to London, while walking up the stairs from the underground, the mum tripped up the stairs and we all had a laugh, later her foot was huting.

On Monday the flew home and they went through the body scanner, and the operator said "have you a problem with your foot", she said "yes". He then said I think you should see a DR as I think you have broken toes"

She went to A&E and she had broken them.

So is this a good thing?

Only if you don't like her !

pip08456 · 26-01-2017, 19:15

How can it be a bad thing?

**Paul** · 27-01-2017, 00:32

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Originally Posted by pip08456

How can it be a bad thing?

I was kinda wondering that as well.

adzii_nufc · 27-01-2017, 02:52

I was under the impression the UK used Mili wave scanners that were automated thus never showing the operator anything. I.e You pass through and it displays a message saying ok or clear. If you have something it alerts the operator on a template image to what location on the body was flagged. At no point does an operator see an image of a person. With that being said, any image it could produce wouldn't be an x-ray. These things are barely capable of picking up firearms so it's next to impossible that it's diagnosing broken bones or even flagging them. It is only capable of producing outside body scans

I guess the answer is bad then because it should be impossible. Thus the operator made the assumption with his eyes, not the scanner.

Oh and the firearms thing wasn't a joke either. It's quite remarkable that a machine tasked to identify drugs, firearms and whatever else concealed on someone failed to do so on numerous occasions. In this test, the operator was blamed for failing to spot it... In which case, what is the actual purpose of the machine then?

pip08456 · 27-01-2017, 08:39

The scanner operator was psychic then.

mrmistoffelees · 30-01-2017, 14:08

I remember last Novemberish i flew out of SFO back to the UK. Took my belt off etc. Walked towards the scanner jeans slipped down, A**e over t** and landed like a beached whale. SFO security not impressed in the slightest.