r/comics • u/aostlund27 A Penny For Your Thoughts • 29d ago

OC Airport Security (OC)

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u/mariahmce 29d ago

I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!

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u/Sufficient_Cod1948 29d ago

She didn’t know what an IUD was

Just...how?

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u/SirBackrooms 29d ago

what abstinence only education does to a mf

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u/Kramerpalooza 29d ago

I would think even without general education of contraceptives, that this would be like... specifically pertinent to the training of metal detector & body scan operators of TSA.

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u/metaltankmx 29d ago

One would think so, but they couldn't cram it in between the classes on identifying arab-sounding names.

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u/DrDDeFalco 29d ago

Yeah, I would sort of expect the copper ones to show up on scans.