Wii Fit Balance Board: Terrorist Catcher?

Wow we're going to place the security of our country in the hands of a plastic childrens toy from Japan. *spends next three hours slamming head on keyboard*

Great, I fidget all the time in line. I'm going to the habius corpus-free hellhole du jour. 

So, it's a machine that will make many people nervous in a place where most people are pretty nervous already (security check) and it will check if people are nervous. Right.

So:

-people who are nervous about being in security check

-people who are nervous because they have the wrong skin color (of course they will be searched regardless of the result this machine gives, like usual)

-people who are nervous for any of a million other reasons

-people who have ADD

-people who have a rock stuck in their shoe

-people who are getting leg cramps from standing so long in line

-people who need to pee after standing so long in line

-people who are late for their flight (probably because of the line)

-or any combination of the above

will be getting the terrorist treatment...excellent.

Not to mention it would have to be constructed out of some pretty heavy duty material for the people who buy two seats on the plane.

I have a question: can a wii fit stand up to the stress of some fatass weighing, say, 400 pounds, standing on it?  It just seems like it's only a very small device, and I just wouldn't think that it could repeatedly take heavy people standing on it...

This is, as I said before, stupid.  'Anxiety' isn't a sure sign of a terrorist in disguise.  What about people who are worried about, say, missing a flight, not getting home in time to see their kid's ball game, missing out on a wedding, their luggage being lost/destroyed, their car being towed, etc.  The list goes on and on.  There's a lot of reasons for anxiety in an airport, not least of all being the ridiculously inflated prices of everything in the airport.  So, with all that anxiety, I doubt that they'll be able to pick out terrorists; they'll just spend their time doing what they do now: harassing people without any real reason.  Now, instead of it being based on, say, the length of one's beard or the clothing one's wearing, they'll do it based on the wii fit's perceived ability to measure anxiety.

This is just as bullshit as a polygraph test. There is no way this method can detect a person's intent. It can only detect nervouseness. It's only a tool for intimidation.

why cant we just go back to using psychics like in the good old days.

I am guessing that they are hoping to use this technology to decide who to search and who to let through rather then who to arrest on this evidence alone.

Even with that,.. this is a horrible idea.  Make nervous people's flight experince even worse?  I already know people with SAD who will not fly anymore, this would probably send even more people over the edge.

So what abotu people that are nervous in crowds and hate flying?

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If a polygraph isn't admissible in court, then this is not gonna stand a f***ing chance.

Oh wait, it's combating terrorism, no evidence to support accusations is needed anyway!

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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.