And this is how you know that your government exists only to transfer taxpayer funds to their pals — witness: an Electronic ID bracelet that also stuns misbehaving passengers.
Someone at Homeland Security is actually thinking about this device that you’d be fitted with when you check in; that will somehow also be coded to your luggage; keep a bunch of data about you; and would be your boarding pass to get on the plane. And did I mention it also acts as your own personal stun gun? So if you somehow upset the flight attendant on the plane by getting up to use the bathroom too many times, you get zapped. Zapped bad, apparently. (The manufacturer has a sales video up. Stunning how many of us are just the enemy.)
You’d surrender this contraption when you disembark, but there is, of course, no mention as to what they’d do with this bracelet now that it has all of your info on it. Perhaps premium flyers will get a chance to keep their bracelets to save time at the airport and to upgrade them to something stylish. But you, dear taxpayer, will be paying (multiple premiums for sure) for this brave new security feature.
An airline industry that allows the implementation of this crazyness deserves to fail.
Extra credit to whoever can name the ST episode (original edition) I’m thinking of.