A conversation with colleagues reminded me of a business trip to Hong Kong at the height of the SARS crisis a few years back. They’d installed scanning devices at the airport, testing for anyone with a high temperature (a possible sign of infection).
I suddenly thought of an alternative trigger for the machines: young ladies with glowing backsides. Daughters who’d been spanked mid-flight, misbehaving super-models in first-class who’d been thrashed by the captain, stewardesses who’d been disciplined for leaving their aircraft in an untidy state… punished miscreants one and all causing panic as the heat-sensitive alarms rang out…