I'm on theTSA's "watch" list now.

[MindPilot]

A couple weeks ago flying out of Fort Lauderdale I got the full-monty scan, search, and grilling. They were extraordinarily interested in my watch and were very upset with me because I didn't remove it before the scan. "It's plastic" was not a sufficient explanation. Finally they concluded that my cheap plastic Casio did not conceal some Jame Bondian doomsday device and sent me on my way.


Now I know why.
Buy your own Al Qaeda-approved OFFICIAL terrorist watch



Don't forget, folks, that you too can own the Casio F91W, the wristwatch considered by America's crack anti-terrorist experts as a sure sign of terrorist affiliations. Just $12!

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/25/terrorwatch.html

[lpbk2713]

1. You're grounded.

No royal wedding for you.


:rofl: :rofl:

[MindPilot]

3. Oh noes!!

Please, please don't keep me from the wedding.

[hobbit709]

2. Wonder what they'll say about my pen that is also a laser pointer

and flashlight.

[Marrah_G]

4. Awesome

[sudopod]

5. It'd be interesting to get a statement from the CEO of Casio, lol

LET MY CUSTOMERS GO!

[Renew Deal]

6. Becoming a terrorist is too easy these days.

You should have at least put on a funny accent to really sell it. :D

[flyingfysh]

7. My watch is worse than that

It is a Casio labelled as an atomic watch! (Really!!) "Atomic" means that the time is corrected daily by referring to a US government atomic clock by signals broadcast from Colorado.

[LiberalFighter]

13. Mine is a wave ceptor.

What will think of that? Should I tell them it is designed to rebuffed waves like the ones in Japan so it doesn't cause a melt down inside the watch?

[MindPilot]

14. I'll have it running in countdown mode next time I fly

That should give them something to get excited about. I mean why pay a doctor for a colonoscopy and testicular exam when the TSA will do it for free?

[bobbolink]

16. Well,then... there's your problem.

Anything from Colorado is suspect.

:rofl:

[FSogol]

8. Question: Which button activates the high powered cutting laser?

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

9. That's a classic design. I remember wearing those in the '70s.

Cheap Casio watches, the new LiteBrite.

[Poll_Blind]

10. Didn't they throw at least one person into Gitmo because they caught him in....

....Afghanistan wearing that Casio model watch. Seriously, I could have sworn I just read something about this happening in the latest WikiLeaks bombshell...

OnEdit: Ah, missed your link.

PB

[brooklynite]

11. What's a watch?

I have a clock app on my iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, laptop. Why would I want to carry another piece of technology.

[MindPilot]

12. Well, sonny back in days when we wore barbed wire shoes to school

a "watch" was the thing that you used to cross-check the sundial. It was an amazing futuristic device that told you the time, and even sometimes the date without a 3-year $99 per month contract, a hot spot, service area, or an ISP. How did people even function without having to carry around all that technology?

[Warren DeMontague]

15. I never wore one, even back in the day.

It always felt like chaining my soul to a little clock.