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October 11, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
A Twisted (And Funny) Take On Airline Screening
Law professor and Concurring Opinions blogger Daniel Solove just got a new toy in the mail: an airline screening playset made by Playmobil. It's the perfect gift for tots of the 21st century. But parents, please don't let your children try Solove's game at home.
Solove didn't find the playset very realistic because it offered no long lines of passengers, no strip-searching, no shoe removals, no "silly warning signs" and no terrorist watch lists. Even more annoying was the "cheery smile" on the lone passenger's face. So Solove did what any blogger with a twisted sense of humor would do: He staged a worst-case airline-screening re-enactment.
First, he forced the lone female passenger in the playset to show an ID. She didn't have one, so she was denied access to the airplane. Then he had her searched from head to toe with a magnetic wand. Next came the luggage search -- and destroy. And finally, he had the woman endure a check against the no-fly list. She didn't have a name, so obviously she had no recourse and the threat of bureaucratic hassles to come.
"But she was still smiling," Solove wrote. "What was wrong with this woman? ... She just wouldn't stop smiling. So finally, I had the cop shoot her dead."
Go see the re-enactment for the full effect. Very clever. George Washington University might want to remove any sharp instruments from Solove's office, though. The protest against Playmobil's airline security force could get ugly.
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