January 7, 2010 | weird news
There has been a Unabomber and an Underwear Bomber, but not, as of yet a Unitard Bomber wreaking havoc on the backyard wrestling circuit.
While the Unabomber’s impact has been rather limited and has in no way negatively impacted the singing telegram market, the Underwear Bomber’s has been anything but (for those of you who are interested, the Unabomber’s handiwork is currently on display as a reproduction in what is possibly the worst name ever for a museum, the Newseum! Editor’s note: billed as DC’s ‘most interactive museum’ you can actually bring an aerosol can and tag the exterior—OK, we made that up).
The Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hot on the hells of the shoe bomber’s hot heels has hopefully made finery fireworks a thing of the past.
While there are some who claim that the proliferation of body scanners is a breach of privacy, a subset of those flying the friendlier skies are a security personnel’s dream passenger: nudist fliers. 
As Reuters reported last year, a travel agency began booking nude excursions in Germany. So called “free body culture” (FKK) as it is known there, began to blossom in the former east Germany where they’d already lost their shirts economically speaking, so the rest was sure to follow.
Speaking of Germans, Michael German of the ACLU said “The body scanner machine is not the best technology to get the current threat and it has this huge privacy set-back.”
We tend to agree, but who really stands to benefit from these enhanced security measures? Answer: the porn industry, who can now add another narrative thread to the randy flight attendant / horny co-pilot scenario.
In all seriousness though, speaking of dirty imagery and its potential abuses, at Manchester Airport, “Under-18s can’t go through at the moment – there’s a grey area in the legal system.”
These developments are enough to have some opting for the long-haul bus and bottle of Gravol instead.
We’ll see what happens when naked celebrity body scans start appearing on TMZ.