German officials have scoffed at the idea of using full body scanners for airline security.

Germany will not participate in EU proposals for airports to use full-body scanner security checks, which have raised privacy issues, its interior ministry said Friday.

“I can tell you in all clarity that we will not take part in this nonsense,” a spokeswoman for the interior ministry told a regular news conference.

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EU lawmakers criticized the scanners in a resolution on Thursday, saying they were equivalent to “a virtual strip search” and raised serious human rights concerns. The lawmakers called for a detailed study of the technology before it is used.

I recently ran into a young Australian woman at an airport who was having what she called “fun” with the strange searches and contraptions required of her in the US. “We don’t have any of this stuff at home” she said with wide-eyes and wonderment as though travel through TSA rules was like visiting the zoo.

Speaking of animals and airports, did you hear about the poodle that caused a serious security incident in Boston?

Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella says the poodle evaded airport personnel for more than 17 hours and delayed at least eight flights.

About 15 state police, firefighters, operations personnel and even electricians chased Choochy late into the night, delaying flights for up 30 minutes.

Quick, someone needs to develop a poodle scanning system for homeland security.