On Monday a naked man strolled through the Fort Lauderdale airport and proceeded up to TSA security screening.
He gets in line for screening, and then once at the front a TSA document checker tells him to stop. He tries to open a locked door that says NO ACCESS. The best part, though, is that you can hear the airport’s audio announcement loop in the background instructing passengers that if they see suspicious behavior they should dial 9-1-1.
This should be the easiest security screening of the week: no shoes to remove, no pockets to empty, and he’s obviously not concealing hidden water anywhere. I’m not sure though if he just wants to avoid a pat down, or he’s actually hoping for one?
The amazing thing is that while this stands out, it isn’t that unusual! A naked man walked up to a TSA checkpoint in Detroit and managed to get screened. It’s activity that’s common enough there’s been a judicial determination that getting naked at TSA is not protected by the first amendment.
The undisputed winner, of course, is Florida where a nearly-naked woman stormed a TSA checkpoint and got tased on the buttocks. (In Miami naked passengers are enough of a thing that a startup airline Naked-air even tried Miami – Cancun service<.)
While the general expectation is that if you’re headed to the airport – no shoes, no shirt, no pants, no service – airports just seem to make people want to get naked? Just a couple of weeks ago a woman stripped naked at American Airlines check-in in Jamaica. Meanwhile after then-US Airways overbooked a flight to Jamaica, a man walked around the airport naked for an hour in protest.
A woman walked naked through the Atlanta airport stopping to pose for photos. And in the fall a naked man was found strolling past the TGI Friday’s at DFW airport.
I believe it was National Lampoon’s 1980 (or so) book predicting what the ’80s would be like that said this would be how people would be told to go through airport screenings. (It also predicted that the Republican dominated Supreme Court would make only 1-0 decisions as no new members would be appointed.) Maybe they were early, but not so far off the mark.
Ha! Since all my originating and returning flights are in and out of MSP, (including 6 more in the coming weeks), given we are up on the frozen tundra ‘only’ about 7 months of the year, IF someone trots through our airport in the buff this will REALLY be big news !!
What no pictures. Bet you he was a customer of size. He paid for two seats.
I am ashamed to be living in a third-world banana republic (Florida) and especially South Florida where nothing surprises me anymore.
No pictures? There is a video!
Or do you mean pictures of his hoo-hah to see if he is a passenger of size!?
If he needs two seats for that then I don’t know how to help him. 🙂
In all seriousness I find it sad that people are increasingly emboldened to act and speak the way they do in public. So much of it is mean and crass and cruel.
It’s like every day is a scene from Falling Down
We finally know the true identity of Tim Dunn.
@Jimmy & @ Gene
++1
And the “nuts”, so to speak, get easier to find.
He bent over and removed his passport
I’m all for people wearing or not wearing whatever they want wherever they want. I wish more people would go about their business in comfort. Butt, he has no ticket lol!
If he was looking for his Sprit Airlines gate he should have just gazed up at the big departures monitor.