John Tyner Objects To Full-Body Scan

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SAN DIEGO (GaeaTimes.com)- A San Diego man recently sparked a dispute at the city’s international airport after he objected to undergo full-body scan as well as the ‘pat-down’ method as part of the security check at the airport. The incident at the San Diego International Airport hogged the limelight after the 31-year-old man John Tyner wrote about the ordeal in his own blog and also posted video of the tussle that he had with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the airport. As his refusal to go under the scanner resulted in the dispute with the TSA officials, John Tyner used his iPhone to record the events as it unfolded.

The video gives a vivid account of what John Tyner had to go through at the San Diego International Airport once he declined to go under the full-body X-ray scanner. As the 31-year-old software engineer was not keen about X-ray scan, the TSA suggested that he can also be checked by the pat-down technique but when the procedure was explained to him, he refused to go through that either. In the disagreement that followed, john Tyner revealed that a supervisor approached him and he was informed that he could face a civil lawsuit if he left the airport before the screening was complete.

Since the videos showing the experiences that John Tyner had to undergo were posted on the web, it has seized many eye-balls and has sparked a debate about the screening procedures that flight passengers have to undergo. John Tyner has described the incident as ‘ridiculous’ and has added that he would not board a flight until and unless the machines are removed.