Aviation securityViagra aficionado's hardly concealed "weapon" makes it past TSA
John Hargrave, an advertising executive with penchant for off-beat humor decided, an hour before heading to the airport, to take not just one maximum strength Viagra pill, but three, with the reasoning that “—- you only get fondled once”; Hargrave also took Viagra whilst attending a Catholic Church, synagogue, and a Church of Scientology in hopes of disproving the claim that Viagra helps men only when they feel sexually excited
John Hargrave, president at Media Shower, Inc., a Boston-based Web content manager, and comedy writer at Zug.com, recently posted a video and article detailing his Viagra-fueled antics at an undisclosed airport with hopes of creating an even more awkward TSA pat-down.
In a self-filmed video with “America, the Beautiful” playing in the background, Hargrave described the security situation posed by TSA: “There’s not much privacy left for air travelers anymore. You get your choice of the privacy-invading full body scan, or the awkward full-body patdown.”
“Today, I’ll be making this a little more awkward,” Hargrave continued, “by taking a massive dose of Viagra an hour before I arrive at the airport.”
The executive with “broad experience in online marketing and advertising,” according to his LinkedIn profile, then proceeded to ingest not just one maximum strength Viagra pill, but three, with the reasoning that “…you only get fondled once.”
Once at the airport, Hargrave’s face appeared significantly flushed from the stiff cocktail and commented that his curious gait could be attributed to the feeling that he had a “small koala bear in his pants.”
Despite Hargrave’s comedic discomfort, he is certainly no stranger to the effects of the erectile dysfunction pill. He has documented his experiences in ordering the drug online as well as his misadventures taking Viagra whilst attending a Catholic Church, synagogue, and a Church of Scientology in hopes of disproving the claim that “Viagra helps a man with erectile dysfunction get an erection only when he is sexually excited.”
After refusing to be scanned by an X-ray machine, Hargrave was ushered into the pat-down area where the TSA agent told him “I’m gonna [sic.] do a quick patdown of your entire body, OK?”
After his request for a female pat-down was denied, Hargrave revealed his situation to the male agent: “It’s just the embarrassing thing is I, uh … I took some Viagra this morning,” to which the TSA agent assured him he would not be touching him in that area.
Despite the comments of “…pretty impressive, huh?” and “Hopefully this can’t be considered a concealed weapon,” the TSA agent cleared Hargrave without signaling any red flags.
Hargrave’s rather depraved experiment is one of few extreme TSA scanning protests that have come to light since the implementation of stricter TSA security guidelines (A woman wearing only black underwear gets hour-long airport security search” 6 December 2010 HSNW).
Hargrave’s stance is simple. “I would rather have less security, and more freedom. Freedom, especially, in my pants.”
