In clear contradiction of what Transportation Security Administration officials have stated in the past, a man was arrested for videotaping TSA officials at San Diego International Airport Friday.
Sam Wolanyk was also charged with "failing to complete the security process" - even though he seemed more than happy to allow them to search him when he stripped down to his underwear.
Wolanyk initially was asked to step into the see-through scanner, but opted to have them pat him down instead.
That was when he stripped down to his underwear . . .
Wolanyk was then paraded through two terminals in his underwear. At one point during this interaction, he videotaped TSA officials with his iPhone, which was confiscated.
The incident was confirmed by Harbor Police Sergeant Rakos who said Wolanyk was arrested on two misdemeanors, “failing to complete the security process; violation code 7.01 and illegally recording the San Diego Airport Authority (they confiscated his iPhone); violation number 7.14 (a).”
It is not clear which "violation codes" he violated. A search though severalSan Diego city and county codes did not produce anything remotely close to what is listed above . . . .
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting the publication of 100 of the 'non-storable' scans on the Gizmodo website, here. That's not going to calm things down at all, is it?
Posted by: Emma | November 22, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Damn, the link didn't work. Here it is: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/nude-scanner-images-published-on-web-20101123-184t4.html
Posted by: Emma | November 22, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Emma, I can't open that link. Is this it:
http://gizmodo.com/5696371/exclusive-tsa-says-body-scanners-saving-images-impossible?skyline=true&s=i
Posted by: Lisa Simeone | November 22, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Yeah, I guess. The Herald seems to have snarfed up its links so you can't cut and paste them. Welcome to irrelevance, idiots.
It's being reported on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald website in the last hour, which I'd link to if it worked. Here is the link they give: http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans which includes 100 images.
Posted by: Emma | November 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM
Hey Emma,
What did people down there make of the South Koreans having a charicature of your Prime Minister dressed in traditonal Austrian as opposed to Australian clothes?
I recently rented a car down in Florida with a GPS with an Australian male accent -- it took me twenty minutes to make the five minute drive to my hotel. Plus it kept trying to take me to bars.
Posted by: Sir Charles | November 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM
I thought it was hilarious, and it was certainly widely reported with pictures of the Julia Gillard doll in her Oktoberfest outfit. It's a very common mistake. I have had my English complimented by Americans who thought I should be a native German speaker for the same reason.
I can imagine your garrulous GPS. I bet he was boasting about anything and everything, that would be in character ;-) But most US-ians find our accent adorably cute, so much so that they can't hear what we are saying. I once gave a paper at an academic conference which I had taken a 20+ hour flight to get to (in Maine) and the first two questions were about my accent. Sheesh!
Posted by: Emma | November 23, 2010 at 12:18 AM
The NYT just did an article -- simultaneously hilarious and poignant -- about How Not To Tawk Like A New Yawker. In that same vein, I would recommend a great documentary called AMERICAN TONGUES.
Posted by: Lisa Simeone | November 23, 2010 at 07:08 AM