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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:46 AM
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Streakers!
During the Carter years, there was a fad called "streaking". People, bare-ass naked, would streak in the most unpredictable places. It was shocking and funny at the same time.

I wonder what would happen if people started streaking at our airports? Nothing is more dangerous to American security than naked people. Nudity is more dangerous than terrorists. Authorities would have to rethink their policy. Do they keep searching people or do they expose our children to nude people streaking through our airports?

It could tie the system up in knots. Just think. :-)
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:49 AM
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1. Personally, I don't think I'd try streaking anymore in the age of tasers...
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:50 AM
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2. Thank you for killing a good idea in its infancy.
Much appreciated.
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RedRocco Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:29 AM
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11. not to mention
ending up on the sex offender registry
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:51 AM
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3. "Don't tase my junk, bro!"
:rofl:

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GrantDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:53 AM
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4. FTW!
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:57 AM
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6. I also don't want to hear complaints about the size of the target I'm presenting...
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:57 AM
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5. "Oh, yes, they call it the Streak... lookitit, lookitit..."
"...fastest thing on two feet..."

I think several have shown up at the TSA checkpoints all-but-naked (in bikinis, their skivvies, etc..) and it seems to have not made a dent (or the point intended)... at least not yet.

That said, the TSA controversy is one that is lose-lose for liberals. If you agree with it, you're contributing to the creeping police state. If you don't, then you're setting yourself up for massive finger-pointing should someone with a device actually bring down a US-originating aircraft.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 10:59 AM
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7. Absolutely.
So why not agree with the Repubs on this issue?? Maybe we can get bipartisanship after all? Unless of course, you think it is keeping us safe?
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:05 AM
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8. I'll go even a step further... I'll just not patronize an industry that allows such infringment on..
...one's civil liberties. I'll drive.;-)
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:16 AM
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9. Why would this be a security problem?
They're practically strip searching people now. Streakers could get waved right on through.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:24 AM
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10. Because America is a country of prudes...
They freak out at nudity.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:31 AM
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12. Maybe the TSA is working on ridding Americans of their prudishness.
Edited on Thu Nov-25-10 11:31 AM by madinmaryland
That sounds awfully progressive to me.

:P

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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 11:35 AM
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13. I was making a joke, and also a point.
For such a prudish country an awful lot of people are happy to see their fellow passengers poked, prodded, and groped.
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 01:14 PM
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15. Yeppers. If it's actually about security............
and not just a naked (pun intended) power play, then this SHOULD be no problem.

I hope more people who have to fly do what the lady in L.A. and that other guy did and show up in bathing suits. I mean, they can't declare bathing suits are in violation of any sort of law or they would have to arrest everybody who goes to a beach, lake, river or pool. It would make a point in a big way.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 01:11 PM
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14. Actually, it started before Carter
I graduated from High School in 1975, and people were streaking then.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 02:08 PM
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20. "Don't look, Ethel!"
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 01:44 PM
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16. It was a short-lived fad: turns out most folk aren't that interested to see random strangers naked
So the social rewards, for stripping off and running about, weren't so great and folk lost interest
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 01:45 PM
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17. 1. Tasered. 2. Tortured. 3. Imprisoned.
Did I miss part of the SOP?

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kgnu_fan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 01:48 PM
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18. Why so scared of naked body? Don't you have a body????
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-10 02:07 PM
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19. It started well before the Carter years!
Edited on Thu Nov-25-10 02:08 PM by Hissyspit
Ray Steven's "The Streak" was #1 in May of 1974.

"Don't look, Ethel!"
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