That time the TSA started screening all paper products separately

[roomwithaview]

@dragonfrog

an X-ray of a stack of paperbacks looks very much like an X-ray of a stack of bricks of C-4.

And infinitely more dangerous!

[anon48584343]

@anon62577920

A block of paper and a block of plastic explosive look similar on the scanner for some reason. (I think similar density?)

In the minds of many, books are bombs.

[MrKahuna]

I should start flying with a copy of Fahrenheit 451.

[anon62577920]

I once brought a copy of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” on a trip to Europe, and had a bit of a Larry David moment in security on the way back:

[MrShiv]

@MikeR

in Kansas.

KCI, and most of Kansas City, are in Missouri

[soulb]

Kansas, eh…?

[Nelsie]

I was wondering if he meant scanning as in looking, or scanning as in using a scanner to record all the info on the paper. Since there wasn’t the fuss you’d expect from BB about recording personal data, I decided they meant just looking.

[Kyberian]

“We dun gone caught us a reader, Cletus!”

[anon62577920]

Little Brother was THE bomb, not A bomb sheesh!

[cjporkchop]

[spreads dozens of porn magazines across X-ray conveyor belt]

[Wanderfound]

@Mister44

Well… good thing I am poor and didn’t fly out of KCI. Wonder if they could discern something like Shadowrun sourcebooks full of weapons and hacker skills from the real world.

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service