Heathrow Employee to Sue Over Body Scanner Comment

Well, I, mean, the fact that it took a month for something like this to happen might be better than some expected...

An airport employee at London's Terminal 5, Jo Margetson, is suing her employer, BAA, the operator of the airport. Why, do you ask? Margetson accidentally stepped into one of Heathrow's shiny new body scanning machines installed after the failed bombing attempt of Northwest Airlines flight 253 around Christmas last year, and one of her co-workers decided to snap a photo of her, and make an, er, lewd comment.

So, the co-worker that was responsible for taking the picture has been issued a harassment warning and, naturally, has a chance of having his future as an airport scanner being negatively affected.

But herin lies the problems with body scanners - they're a sensitive issue. And issues like this one at Heathrow is probably why the TSA has the agents who will be monitoring the body scanners will be in a separate area. But still, to make this new technology work without enraging the traveling public, TSA and other security agencies need to be as professional as possible.