TSA Brings the Worst Travel Season Ever to Sea-Tac

Holiday travel is notoriously difficult, but be prepared for greater delays this year. In case you haven't been following all the hullabaloo and the sudden influx of people's junk on the Internet (if that was even possible), just in time for this, the most joyous of seasons, the Transportation Security Administration has imposed whole body scans, inciting privacy and heath concerns. Out of the two types of whole-body scans, Millimeter Wave and Backscatter X-ray, the latter has raised caused a larger health uproar. The latter type, the health-uproar kind, are what they have at our own Sea-Tac Airport.

You might want to show up early if you plan on leaving Seattle by air at all tomorrow. Due to the junk-on-the-internet/health and safety outrage, there has been a call to boycott the scanners--in favor of some long, intimate pat-downs.

But never fear, for with every cloud, there is a silver lining: the light rail seems completely unaffected by the snow, so you can get to the airport in plenty of time to stand in line for hours and still make your flight.

[Video via the Slog]