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#1 Jan 23 2009 at 7:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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This is killing me today, I had to share.

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#2 Jan 23 2009 at 8:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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Let me know when they come out with the meth lab. TN *so* needs one of those.
#3 Jan 23 2009 at 8:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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Thank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like.
Apparently this person never entered an airport before 9/11. They made you go through the metal detectors and stuff then, too. Only real difference is that before anyone could go through them and enter the main concourse and now you need to be a ticketed passenger to go through.
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#4 Jan 23 2009 at 8:22 AM Rating: Good
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#5 Jan 23 2009 at 8:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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#6 Jan 23 2009 at 8:37 AM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:


Flip Tripod for Flip Ultra and Mino Camcorders
(66) $14.99


Smiley: confused







Edited, Jan 23rd 2009 5:37pm by Elinda
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#7 Jan 23 2009 at 8:38 AM Rating: Good
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Sign of the Times, better than CNN.
#8 Jan 23 2009 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
Random Review wrote:
Thank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like.
Apparently this person never entered an airport before 9/11. They made you go through the metal detectors and stuff then, too. Only real difference is that before anyone could go through them and enter the main concourse and now you need to be a ticketed passenger to go through.

Well also, pre-9/11, it wasn't as much of a fraud designed to placate weak-minded people as it is now. "Security Theater" the article calls it.

#9 Jan 23 2009 at 4:05 PM Rating: Good
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I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5 year old son pointed out that the passenger's shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger's scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up. My son said "that's the worst security ever!". But it turned out to be okay, because when the passenger got on the Playmobil B757 and tried to hijack it, she was mobbed by a couple of other heroic passengers, who only sustained minor injuries in the scuffle, which were treated at the Playmobil Hospital.
The best thing about this product is that it teaches kids about the realities of living in a high-surveillence society. My son said he wants the Playmobil Neighborhood Surveillence System set for Christmas. I've heard that the CC TV cameras on that thing are pretty worthless in terms of quality and motion detection, so I think I'll get him the Playmobil Abu-Gharib Interogation Set instead (it comes with a cute little memo from George Bush).
#10 Jan 23 2009 at 6:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Apparently this person never entered an airport before 9/11. They made you go through the metal detectors and stuff then, too. Only real difference is that before anyone could go through them and enter the main concourse and now you need to be a ticketed passenger to go through.


The metal detectors are in more than just airports now though.
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#11 Jan 23 2009 at 7:06 PM Rating: Decent
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Driftwood the Eccentric wrote:
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Apparently this person never entered an airport before 9/11. They made you go through the metal detectors and stuff then, too. Only real difference is that before anyone could go through them and enter the main concourse and now you need to be a ticketed passenger to go through.


The metal detectors are in more than just airports now though.


Back in 1994, there were metal detectors in my high school.

Honestly, it's nothing new.
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#12 Jan 23 2009 at 7:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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Driftwood the Eccentric wrote:
The metal detectors are in more than just airports now though.
Given that the product description says that the woman is at an airport, I'm failing to see your point.
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#13 Jan 23 2009 at 7:13 PM Rating: Decent
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I only really bothered to look at the picture. I must have it though...
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#14 Jan 24 2009 at 5:06 AM Rating: Good
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Its very fake. The "passenger" still has shoes on. Probably bribed the "Security" crew.
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