BUT GOOD GOD PEOPLE! This is NOT like CAIR suing to stop “profiling”. It is NOT an attempt to degrade security. Having the TSA screeners actually treat people with respect and not humiliate them when there are perfectly reasonable alternatives does NOT make our planes less safe.

I say she should win her suit. Award her a dollar and make the employees involved strip in front of a full court… then fire the supervisor who made the call. He is unfit to supervise others.

Proof is that she called Gloria Allred. Unless Gloria just happened to be standing there with her own teeny weeny pliers.

Yuch! to the whole thread.

When set to a low setting one can walk through with a couple keys (house or car not 2.2 lbs) and not set it off. On its highest setting it will catch any material that is capable of reflecting the signal such as alumina foil (gum wrapper). Also if there is draft the wind can set the machine off if sufficient to shake the machine. However, Once the signal goes off they are obligated to wand you with their cattle prod which is also has several sensitivity settings compounding the problem if they are set counter to one another.

The goal beep once, beep twice, and you are guilty until a strip search proves you innocent while the screener get their kicks.

I have had both of my knees replaced and when I show them my medical card they ignor it, and when I set of the magnetometer because of the titanium caps, they prod me until they get to my knees and then they want me to strip and show them my scars and to touch the knees as if they know what a skilled surgeon knows.

I have seen these intolerant people tell veterans with prosthetic devices to remove them to assure they are not concealing anything, however if that vet smacked them upside the head they could kill em. So are prosthetic devices concealed deadly weapons?

I also have seen them shut down the entire screening process delaying over 500 people for 20 minutes because they could not recognize a heating pad as a heating pad and never asking the obvious question of the owner-is there anything in you bag that has wires encased in material and a switching device? OH! that would be my heating pad.

No, they had to call the bomb expert in which took several minutes, and at no time did they even think of moving people away from this suspected device.

*One public middle-school got in trouble because they sent home a Jewish kid who was wearing a star of David pendant. They thought it was a pentacle, ie. a Satanic symbol.

*An Indian kid (Yaki)–he was 16-17 (my next door neighbor), was cooling his heels because they wouldn’t let him back into the high school because of his hair. According to him it was a religious thing in his culture.

*After first outlawing heavy -metal T-shirts, but then learning they couldn’t do that, as a free-speech issue, they outlawed black T-shirts, no matter what they had on them.

In some ways I liked Lubbock–nice people–but anything you want to tell about that place, I would believe.

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where do i sign up?

There was a story a few years back in Reason magazine about TSA. TSA’s motto is “Dominate, Intimidate, Control”.

However, BigOldDog forgot the key part of the motto, “Dominate, Intimidate, Control, Knowledgeably”

The ego of a screener is stroked to think they are the key to securing the country using the tactics depicted by the first three descriptors of their motto. Unforturnatly, an inflated ego begins to run a muck when left unchecked because they fail to be knowledgeable of their place in the entire process of protecting this country.

Once could make the case that they are mercenaries without weapons. And a defenseless person often feels helpless and often resort to Intimidation as their weapon of choice.

I think the TSA has already admitted they are wrong here by readdressing their policy. What happened to this woman is inexcusable. You can treat people with respect and have adequate security. They are not mutually exclusive. I think that is the case the vast majority of the time. This instance, not so much.

Any uprising will be put down immediately. Of course, means no alcohol.

cjs1943 on March 28, 2008 at 5:57 PM

Talk about an uprising…

Truly, I respect in principle what the TSA is trying to do (they would be far more effective if they were a private organization), but they seemed to have banned basic sense. The last time I flew, since the inception of the “Ziploc baggie” rule, I had to throw out a sample-sized hair spray because it was not in a Ziploc. Never mind that it would have fit in a Ziploc, nor that I could have removed it immediately after the inspection–the fact that it was not in a Ziploc was the sole focus of the government employee. A dozen suspicious-looking Arabs could have meandered past me without question, because a raised eyebrow would be heinous profiling, but the little bottle of Pantene in the purse of the WASPiest WASP ever was cause for alarm.

If someone can show how a nipple bar or ring could constitute a security threat, then I’d be sympathetic to the notion that they have to be removed before the flight.

Kinda like the pin on a grenade. I’ll leave it at that!

Would you get nervous if a 38-D sat next to you on the plane knowing that her chest could explode? Seriously, folks…
 
NNtrancer on March 28, 2008 at 7:36 PM
 
I don’t know, but I do know I’d have to keep a close eye on her…just in case.
 
James on March 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM

 
Seriously, Pepsi just shot out of my nose. God that was funny.

There seems to be a bias against this woman because she chose to pierce her nipples. She might like pain, but it doesn’t mean she likes humiliation (the two do not have to be linked). I don’t agree with her lawyering up, but the TSA violated its own rules. Somebody needs to hold them accountable; it seems that some here are upset that the person to do that is not a conservative, God-fearing model citizen.

And to the zhopa that suggested that the obese also be banned from flying – I would like to say a few things to you, but I don’t wish to be banned from this site. I think people who paint strangers with such a broad brush should think before they post (even anonymously), but obviously my fat has clouded my sense of reason.

Would you get nervous if a 38-D sat next to you on the plane knowing that her chest could explode? Seriously, folks…

NNtrancer on March 28, 2008 at 7:36 PM

I don’t know, but I do know I’d have to keep a close eye on her…just in case.