TSA screening tray ad

Gareth Branwyn spotted an interesting ad placed in TSA screening trays—for a futuristic TV show where Americans violently defy their legitimate government. Apparently aliens are in charge, but, well ... never mind. [AnimalNY]

• [Koocheekoo]

  Cool!  My friend is working on this game. She is super excited about it. I also posted a bit about her awhile ago and her awesome dalek costume. :D  She will be excited to see this post. 

• [Brandon Wright]

  The irony its so delicious I can almost taste it… it tastes like napoleon ice cream…

• [Wallace]

  Um, the TSA trays have adverts in them? That just seems wrong, regardless of what the advert is. Like an abuse of power somehow. You’re being forced to deal with the TSA and they have the audacity to put advertisements in your face whilst you do so. How much does the TSA make from selling advertising space in security check points?
  I’m British and thankfully have no first hand experience of the TSA.

  • [Incipient Madness]

    The TSA just read what you said. Extra screening for you if you ever dare fly to the US. 

  • [Halloween_Jack]

    Something tells me that the trays are provided by the airport. It’s of questionable promotional value anyway, as one of the least effective places I could imagine for advertising entertainment is during a humiliating exercise in security theater. 

    • [Funk Daddy]

      If it was a black lab that told you that, I strongly caution against acting on the advice of such a creature.

      http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images24/LabradorRetrieverBlackDozerRescueDog2.JPG

    • [ocker3]

       Unless a human’s mind will search for Anything interesting to pay attention to in a moment of stress

    • [penguinchris]

      A while back Zappos.com – a website that sells shoes – was advertising heavily in the TSA trays. When I was flying a lot a couple years ago, they were the only tray ads I remember seeing.

      I can’t remember if the internet consensus was that this was clever in the “any publicity is good publicity” sense, or a major backfire – you’re associating your shoe store website with one of the most annoying parts of the TSA process after all.

      • [elix]

        “Since you’ve had to take your shoes off at least once during this ordeal, why not get a comfy new pair in time for your return trip home! Zappos.com!”

        I couldn’t fault them for something like that, at least.

  • [Koocheekoo]

    While the British Airport Security crew might not have adverts, the queues in the airports are atrocious. Some entertainment during the wait might not be so bad. I avoid Heathrow as much as possible when traveling to that region.

  • [anansi133]

     What this says to me is that creeping fascism will be normalized at all costs. Make the airport look more like the grocery store, and you’re that much closer to making the grocery store like the airport. The long term goal is to make every public place as ‘safe’ as the airport is now.

    I think it’s time for an American re-boot of The Wave http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/. 

• [EH]

  I bet the EFF would be denied if they tried to buy space.

• [t3kna2007]

  There are TSA screening tray ads? WTF?

  To harness the person, harness his attention.

  (You want to be harnessed too?  OK, or her.)

  • [Koocheekoo]

    Ha! Not sure if you are just being silly, but the trays are for your shoes, laptop, wallet and what ever other stuff you have on your person.  Part of the song and dance of airport travel these days… 

• [Funk Daddy]

  What we need is a person with more money than me, much more.

  One that would agree to purchase tens of thousands of anal beads, made of steel, maybe with RFID implanted to insure compliance with the rules.

  Then, offer 5-10 of these beads and, upon completion of task, $5000.00 to pass through TSA checkpoints with said beads inserted in ass.

  $1000.00 extra to those who eat asparagus, cheese and thousand island dressing exclusively for 36 hours before entering checkpoint.

  I’m just sayin, why not have fun with them?

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    $1000.00 extra to those who eat asparagus, cheese and thousand island dressing exclusively for 36 hours before entering checkpoint.

    Dried apricots, definitely dried apricots.

• [Aaron Cole]

  “for a futuristic TV show where Americans violently defy their legitimate government.”

  When the government stops serving the will of the people the are no longer legitimate.

• [Agent Smith]

  It’s actually a dare. 

• [Tommy Timefishblue]

  Handcuffs will be embossed with ads written backwards so that, once you’re released, your wrist will say “EVERDAY LOW PRICES AT WALMART”.

  • [MrScience]

    This is truly something from a dystopian Cyberpunk novel. The future is here, and it would like you to step aside for additional screening.

• [llazy8]

  So we’ve lost then, right?  Have these ever more absurd screening procedures become like any other work-a-day hassle, like waiting for the subway or getting a red light?  

  If 3-d nude scans, pre-flight government monitoring of our twitter accounts and the ‘enhanced’ intra-vulvular pat down I receive are so uncontroversial that they seem a fine spot for advertising, how do we go back? 

  • [JimEJim]

     The problem is that far too many in this country seem to be ok with the procedures since they feel safer, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary.

    So yes, we’ve lost until someone can find a better way to convince the idiots how stupid all this is.

• [malindrome]

  Do the aliens at least let us carry our own water bottles on flights?

• [FreakCitySF]

  Yes I remember seeing cola ads on a recent trip to Florida!  On another note, I found a security flaw with the liquid rule. I emptied a bottle of water into a plastic bag with a few shirts.  I wen’t through TSA security no problem.  Carried it on board the whole bit.