Do you worry that TSAs might miss an atom bomb being carried onto an airplane by a passenger?

No generally.

Double no in this case.

Well, if you are going to advertise, you have to be willing to take the consequences.

Oh God! You have no idea how many nights I have stayed up worrying about this. No idea!

Wow I never thought of that, I guess I better hide my tattoo on my arm. No lie it actually says “Tha Bomb” yea what can I say I turned 18 in the 90’s my mom warned me but I did it anyway. I hope I don’t get banned from any airlines!!!!

The stupidity of airport security is staggering.

I don’t know, but his tattoo should read “Adam Bomb”. Would have been a greater pun.

I’d really like to think that the standards airport security are using for “suspicious behavior” include, at a minimum, actual behavior.

Maybe I am astonishingly naive, but I honestly have not worried about airport safety when traveling. All the hysteria and complaints surrounding TSA is making me consider alternative forms of transport, though.

Knuckle tattoos amuse me, though. Maybe not this one, but they usually do.

The TSA’s job is not to prevent terrorists getting bombs on to planes. It’s to make air travel so unappealing that terrorists don’t want to get on to the plane in the first place. it’s the only explanation that explain the madness

Who really cares about the bombs when they still allow people eating Gyros and chili with screaming babies to boot to board the planes.

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Of course! That’s why I advocate a full body cavity search by trained “fisting” personnel for everyone boarding a commercial airline flight.

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I have been looking at this question for a while now, just trying to figure out what the hell to say. All I can think of is this is what the facepalm was invented for.

Whoever made that decision is too stupid to have a job. They should just be fired and granted “special needs” welfare for the rest of their life. I’m not joking or exaggerating to try and be funny either, I’m amazed that someone this stupid is actually real and living in the same reality as me.

The person who decided to do this is actually out there some place, when I look up at the moon, there is a chance that they are out there some place looking at it too.

@cruiser also people with laptops. I mean if they have accidentally over volted the battery then it’s probably more dangerous than any home brewed shoe bomb.

I’m sure that they’ll handle this by coming out with a regulation that bombs must be correctly labeled as to type of explosive, force and triggering devices… and then wave it on through if it meets the requirements.

I’m still reminded of the National Guard soldiers who flew commercial flights for part of their trip to deploy. They checked their rifles at the security checkpoint, showed that they were unloaded, had them x-rayed… and were then handed them back as carry-on luggage.

And the guy who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor? He can’t fly with that.

I feel safer already. (I think zombie movies must be written primarily in airport terminals.)

Nuclear bombs are almost exclusively made in warhead form, and the smallest warheads are the tactical nuclear bombs employed by the US… Which are still missiles larger than a person. Those not in warhead form are all in artillery shell form, or “drop-bomb” form (like dropped from an airplane). Only a handful of countries would have the technological knowledge and ability to create a nuclear bomb small enough to be snuck onto an airplane, and I would wager none of them has a reason to do so. And by small enough to be snuck onto an airplane, I mean probably twice the size of a suitcase, very heavy, and most likely giving off radiation that would make you incredibly sick.

@tedd
So, if I understand your answer…
You are saying the the guy I mentioned in the question who had the “Atom Bomb” tattoo could not have been hiding an atom bomb, even if he had wanted to?

The knuckles on eight fingers of his other hand said “Bonehead”.That’s the real reason he wasn’t allowed to board ;)

@josie Entirely? No…. Monumentally unlikely… Yes.

Unless you’re joking and I’m just totally missing it… in which case my apologies I’m having a rough couple weeks.

If you have time to worry about that shit, you must be doing fine with your life.
Why seek something to worry about? Que sera, sera

Also I’m pretty sure anyone who was planning on acting out any terrorist plot would hardly advertise it.

That sounds like a pretty silly overreaction. In answer to your question, no. I worry about lots of things, but someone sneaking a nuclear bomb aboard a commercial airliner isn’t even in the reject bin of the things I considered but never put on the list.

If terrorists did ever get their hands on a small nuke, they would take it into a large, heavily populated building in a major metropolitan area, not on baord an airplane.