Re: Most Despicable: Woman Says TSA Forced Piercings Removal

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

> > > A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with
pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by
federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. 
> From the TSA Blog:
>
> http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/03/tsa-and-piercings.html
>
> Your questions and comments on the incident in Lubbock, Texas have not
> gone unnoticed. Yesterday, as soon as TSA became aware of the situation,
> people in our Security Operations office looked into it. They
> interviewed the four Security Officers who at one point or another,
> screened or spoke to the passenger - two men and two women (if a
> passenger requests private screening, they must get an officer of the
> same sex to screen them there). TSA has also been in touch with the
> passenger's lawyer on several occasions.
>
> The bottom line: the security officers followed the procedures for when
> someone alarms the metal detector and did nothing wrong. But, after
> looking at the procedure the officers followed, it was determined that
> the procedures should be modified. An official statement has been posted
> on our website here.
>
> Lynn
>
> TSA EoS Blog Team

I'm certainly glad they "modified" their procedures, but regardless
of whether they followed procedure or not, this clearly flies in the
face of decency and common sense (paraphrasing Ryan Singel):

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/tsa-defends-nip.html

$.02,

- - ferg

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