Nipple-gate...TSA needs to read on the Constitution and equality of rules for all.
A Dallas-area woman said she was humiliated after airport screening officials forced her to remove her nipple ring ith a pair of pliers according to this story on Dallasnews.com.
On Friday, a day after the complaint became public, the Transportation Safety Administration said said it would make changes to some of its screening procedures.
From the story....
The agency released an updated statement Friday in response to the complaint filed by Dallas-area resident Mandi Hamlin earlier this month. Ms. Hamlin, 37, claimed the agency did not follow correct procedures during her security check in Lubbock on Feb. 24.
In the statement, posted on its Web site, the TSA said that while procedures were properly followed, they "caused difficulty for the passenger involved and (the TSA) regrets the situation in which she found herself. We appreciate her raising awareness on this issue and we are changing the procedures to ensure that this does not happen again."
And before any one asks--- no, I'm not posting photos-- even if it does drive up traffic.
Update--
Okay, I'm going to post a couple photos.....but they aren't going to be sexy.
First is a photo of Ms. Hamlin demonstrating at her LA news conference what she was asked to do by TSA personnel. [See above pic]
This next one was on the TSA site earlier. It demonstrates the training tool the agency is using to teach their officers to identify bra bombs. [See pic on link]
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/tsa-procedures-changed-after-p.html
First is a photo of Ms. Hamlin demonstrating at her LA news conference what she was asked to do by TSA personnel. [See above pic]
This next one was on the TSA site earlier. It demonstrates the training tool the agency is using to teach their officers to identify bra bombs. [See pic on link]
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/tsa-procedures-changed-after-p.html
Bra bombs, LOL! TSA is getting sadder by the minute. This is a DHS problem!
7 comments:
What next do we have to go to the airport without any clothes on. Now will Mr. Kitty be allowed with fur? What's really going on. The terrorist walk right in without problem but Americans and Mr. Kitty have to be checked and re checked.
And I hope that Kittybowtie doesn't get frisk at the security checkpoint.If he gets his paw pierced and is asked to remove it, all hell will break loose. That would make headlines.There will be a frog march of protests by animal rights organizations at the airport.
;-)
Mr. Kitty doesn't have any piercings and anyone getting a nipple ring is an idiot for starters. It's a free country, so we get to find out who the idiots are by the stuff they put in and on their bodies.
God bless America. Home of the Free, and the Stupid.
P.S. I just bet the next one will be a dude who has a penis piercing.
And yes, any dude getting that pierced is an idiot.
My favorite funny story is the guy in England who got pissed because his boss fired him for gluing nails into his hair in spikes. The boss said he was a danger, so he had to go. Nail Hair Guy was also a moron, but even in England, one is free to be a moron but that doesn't mean one will have a job.
"P.S. I just bet the next one will be a dude who has a penis piercing."
I'm cringing at that thought, Kittybowtie. But, you know, the TSA opened that door for more complaints for body piercing from both male and female.
"And yes, any dude getting that pierced is an idiot."
Brought to you by the makers of Viagra.
Wow Mr. Kitty I guess being a woman I really never thought of that part of the body being pierced by a man.
Now I read what you had to say and here's my plan. I'm giving you knot out drops, then have your penis and nipples pierced. Then I'll take you to the airport and all the bells we go off and the terrorist will quickly walk pass the the famous Homeland Security Department checks the cat. As for me I'll be filming this for a made for Movie. Yes Mr. Kitty you'll get paid for your part in the Movie. Now as for these pierced body parts well I'll make sure a Chicago Doctor removes them. But it's all about the experience isn't it.
I think each person would find something they didn't like that someone else did. I remember my Dad told me I was to young to go to Apollo in NY. I asked him why did he join the Navy and lie on his enlistment papers as he was only 17 years old? What makes me to young and your not even when you were to young.
Umm, get some journalist to be the undercover pierced decoy.
No thanks. The cat will go get a job before getting pierced.
Ouch.
It's not really the passengers who should be checked so thoroughly any more, it's the vendors. The way security is now, some terrorist could get a job as a vendor and pass off something to a terrorist getting on a plane, after the terrorist went through security.
In places in Europe, the passengers get checked a second time right before they get on the plane. They do not do that here. There's only one set of security.
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