Except those people who are terrified of dogs, or look at dogs in a different way than you and I due to culture, religion, or both.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > The irritating thing is that there is a much cheaper and more > effective alternative, use trained dogs. From what I remember, (had a > prof in grad school who studied this and trained dogs for the FDA and > other government agencies), a beagle's nose is sensitive enough to > detect trace amounts of PETN and other explosives from a few feet > away. And besides beagles are much less threatening. > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:58 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> > >> Last September I flew out to Portland OR. At the Dulles airport I was > >> the recipient of a full body pat down because of my insulin pump, and > >> a false positive reading on an explosives detector (I guess it didn't > >> help that I had cleaned out the ferrets' litter box just before > >> leaving). The pat down was extremely intrusive to the point where from > >> now on given the choice I would go for a scanner every time. > >> > > > > You shouldn't even have to make that choice. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331703 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
