I can see your bobbly bits!

[Kralizec]

Aren't X-rays supposed to be harmful?

[BDC]

It's pointless.

"We have a shadowy human figure with a knife seen on xxx street, if only we had half a million officers we'd be there!"

[yesdachi]

It's pointless.

"We have a shadowy human figure with a knife seen on xxx street, if only we had half a million officers we'd be there!"

On xxx street there is probably a few off-duty ones already there.

[Scurvy]

It's pointless.

"We have a shadowy human figure with a knife seen on xxx street, if only we had half a million officers we'd be there!"

don't worry, theres a community support officer on his way....

[Husar]

Wouldn't some chainmail shirt block it?
Return to the middle ages!

[Hosakawa Tito]

Seems one can beat this by hiding the contraband in a ....em....body cavity.

[BigTex]

Aren't X-rays supposed to be harmful?

It's a T-ray, different then the x-ray. Not sure if it is harmful to the body, but unlike a x-ray it doesnt penetrate your skin.

Seems like the issue would come down to what the country's protections against "unreasonable searches" are, and what level of expectation of (if not privacy) non-intrusion, people on a public street may have.

The inside of your car is private property regardless of where it travels. It falls under the protections of the bill of rights. We had this problem not to long ago were the people were watching a porno inside the car. A little kid was able to see it. The case finally made it to the supreme court, were they ruled it was private property.

I have mixed feelings about this. It definately should/could only be used at airports or other public transportation. But it is very intrusive.

[Fisherking]

Well in the one photo or rendering it was looking at people inside a truck…if they see that they can likely see into your home, not that the government or local police would do that of course.

Jim the neighbourhood cop thinks his wife is cheating, or maybe he wants for what ever reason to find out if any wives in the neighbourhood are cheating…but I am sure he wouldn't be able to do that, right?

And they would never just mount them in every intersection and scan the block, would they?

Of course this might make some of those ridiculous laws they could never enforce before enforceable.

Oh well why worry now! The Department of Defence probably already has any number orbiting on satellites and has a compilation of willy sizes (up and down) for every man in the country.