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So I have to fly to Russia for the New Years, and I'm just dreading this whole security checkpoints balls that seems to have gripped the world's airport security forces. I know I'm going to be picked out: I'm young (and therefore, in the eyes of the people with power in the security realm, a brain-dead maker of mayhem), I have a beard, and a ponytail that reaches the small of my back. This makes me prime murderer/hijacker/bomber material (they think).

Of course, what theses security forces won't realize by looking at me is that I'm well-mannered, eloquent, intelligent, timid and rather socially awkward, I love computers, reading, and trains, that I'm training to be an animator (rather than a suicide bomber, which the TSA seems to think is the world's #1 job market), that I love my life, and that I'm just going to visit my grandmother because I haven't seen her for years. I'm not going to attempt to kill 300 people by making one of my favorite kinds of machines explode.

So how do I avoid being selected to go through the radiation machine and, after opting out, being patted down like a piece of meat. I mean, I'm more likely to be struck by lightning while taking the Presidential oath from the back of my roller-blading unicorn than I am to be a security threat. I want to be treated like a human, not a brain-dead pack animal with a bomb strapped to it.

[Edited by AdmiralThrawn, 11/20/2010 9:12:29 PM]

hey our transportation security in here doesnt behave like this but maybe in america they have alots of bombermans
but i offer you dont travel to somewhere at all

Sail somewhere else first where theres less security

[Edited by potato_chips, 11/20/2010 10:36:13 PM]

1: Acquire Viagra
2: Go through screening, opt-out of the body scanners.
3: ????
4: Profit

Win.

You're not a terrorist so just go through security and don't think about it. If you have nothing to hide you have no reason to worry.

Make yourself look like the ultimate Japanophile.

If you don't want to be patted down, just say: "touch me, and I'll sue you for sexual harassment."