First it was your bags, now it’s your paws.
The Transportation Security Administration announced earlier this week that it will begin swabbing random passenger’s hands to see if they’ve been in contact with explosives.
Agents will not be swabbing people’s underpants just yet — just yet.
The new security measure comes from the Christmas Day underwear bomber on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit — the failed bombing 
attempt was snuffed out at the last minute by alert passengers. Had the bomber’s hands been swabbed before the flight, or had he undergone one of those X-ray machine’s, the bomber may have been caught.
Then again, he may not have been caught, even after going through all of these new security measures.
However, the TSA will now start randomly selecting people to rub a cotton swab against their hands and then testing them in a machine. When the TSA says random, it means people who look like terrorists and old women.
Now, for those looking to get hassled during the next flight, there are some ways to make the machine start buzzing red alert without actually having touched explosives. The machine tests for glycerines (as in nitro), but it’s also found in other things such as hand lotion and fertilizer — quite often golf shoes will test positive for explosives, even if your best drive was the drive to clubhouse, according to some news reports.
So have fun — and don’t forget the manicure.
