TSA Electric Shock Bracelets... Fly the FRIENDLY Skies?

You gotta hear this...

It’s a recent proposal made to the TSA (Transportation Safety Agency) regarding a new air safety measure:
It involves "...situating a remotely activatable electric shock device on each of the passengers..."

That’s right, My Fellow Americans...

I don’t know if the cost is included in the price of your ticket...

I guess, when they ask you what kind of meal you want... they’ll also ask you what size ECT Bracelet you wear.

If you don’t know... I’m sure that they’ll have measuring tapes at hand at the Check-In...

All kidding aside...
Well, at least some of it...
It goes without saying that this isn’t just a Bad Idea... It’s a STUPID Idea...

"... Don’t Taze Me, Man!"

If anyone has been paying attention... In spite of the fact that the company that manufactures Tazer Guns heavily promoted their purchase and use to Police Departments and declared them a safe alternative to guns and "Non-Lethal" weapons...
I believe at least a few hundred people have suddenly died shortly after being "tazered" by the Police.

They must not be considering the fact that many people have diagnosed heart conditions and and many others likely have undiagnosed heart conditions... Among countless other potential health-related contraindications...

Then... there’s the hacker target potential
... and the fact that other devices... like a garage door opener might set one of these bracelets off... Or any number of things...

Luckily, for myself and those (if any) like me... I drain batteries... quickly.

But, for anyone else... Unless you’re into this sort of thing...

Like I said... It’s a STUPID Idea.

"Fly the FRIENDLY Skies"?... Yeah, Right.

(From: boingboing.net)

Air Safety Proposal: Electric Shock Bracelets - Controlled By Flight Attendants


Perhaps Cartier could come up with a First Class Model?

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 20, 2008 5:14 PM | permalink
Lamperd, a "firearm training system" company, has patented a bracelet that delivers debilitating shocks when remotely triggered.
Their killer app for this is aviation safety: They’re proposing that the TSA could force everyone who flies to wear one of these and then flight-attendants could zap us into a stupor if we turn out to be Al Quaeda.

"A method of providing air travel security for passengers traveling via an aircraft comprises situating a remotely activatable electric shock device on each of the passengers in position to deliver a disabling electrical shock when activated; and arming the electric shock devices for subsequent selective activation by a selectively operable remote control disposed within the aircraft. The remotely activatable electric shock devices each have activation circuitry responsive to the activating signal transmitted from the selectively operable remote control means. The activated electric shock device is operable to deliver the disabling electrical shock to that passenger."

Best part? They’re Canadian! Oh, my countrymen, you have a wicked sense of humo(u)r.