This spot shows some guy getting his junk fondled and that metal detector wand waved over his crotch, and it’s squealing away as if he’s hiding a gun in his underwear. Then he says that he puts up with a lot, but he won’t put up with a lame chain saw that doesn’t start up immediately so he can chop people up before they can run away. Then we see his chain saw coming through the carry-on x-ray scanner, and so he grabs it and cuts this TSA pervert’s head off, and the whole country cheers, until he starts chasing all the other passengers around the airport and making mincemeat out of them all. So this guy really is a maniac, and we were cheering for him? (Well, serial killers are very popular here.) Oh well, the TSA’s invasive molesty pat-downs probably sent him over the edge anyway, so maybe it’s really their fault after all. Let’s ask TSA head John “Sex” Pistole* if all the groping is really necessary! Because from this commercial, which was shot at an actual airport as a documentary, apparently the TSA agents are so busy feeling people up, passengers are just free to bring all kinds of power tools and weapons aboard in their carry-on luggage! (This guy didn’t even bother to pack his chain saw in a bag at all: that’s how easy it is to sneak them through!) Yikes! (But at least there is a disclaimer warning you to never operate power equipment indoors unless you’re murdering people with it.)
Okay, that’s not really what happens. But this ad is pretty edgy as it is! They really do show the main character guy’s crotch getting all felt up, and he really is allowed to bring his chain saw through the security check point and then start it up! And we can just imagine what happens after that, as they cut away (as he cuts away too, I’ll bet!). But what a suggestive spot! It implies all kinds of incompetence and wanton sexual harassment and outright molesting at the airport TSA, and then it looks like you can just bring all the power tools and weapons you like on the plane with you. Well, I’ll bet the ad guys who came up with this one are given the extra special strip search when they fly after this spot started airing on TV! (I hope they used pseudonyms!) I’m surprised the Justice Department isn’t investigating them for encouraging or inciting terrorist plots! (But it is a fun commercial! So maybe they think it’s worth moving their offices to Gitmo!)
Here’s the commuter chain saw carnage commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0BoVP1-LA
* BTW: John Pistole’s actual middle initial really is “S”: No kidding (!). Here’s the government TSA web page for John S. Pistole, just to prove it (maybe it really does stand for “Sex”? It doesn't tell us, so you never know! I was making a joke about the gropey policy stuff, and associating it with a play on his name being similar to the band “Sex Pistols”, but oddly, his middle initial really is “S”!: what an odd coincidence!):
http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/people/bios/john_s_pistole_bio.shtm
* BTW: John Pistole’s actual middle initial really is “S”: No kidding (!). Here’s the government TSA web page for John S. Pistole, just to prove it (maybe it really does stand for “Sex”? It doesn't tell us, so you never know! I was making a joke about the gropey policy stuff, and associating it with a play on his name being similar to the band “Sex Pistols”, but oddly, his middle initial really is “S”!: what an odd coincidence!):
http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/people/bios/john_s_pistole_bio.shtm
