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Originally Posted by cologal
I reported this in the travel forum a week ago after I was forced into a fondling incident. Still working with TSA and the civil rights division on that.
Of course, I like the body scanners mainly because I have 2 implants and fly almost every week, after 6 years it is really getting old. The only thing the metal detector picks up now are people with implants or some type of medical metal and guys with swiss army knives their father gave them. (I help a nice old guy out of security and back to the gift shop so he could mail the knife home...he was in tears.)
My problem is being fondled...no wands now they just feel you up and women get a double dose. Men get the package check and women get that and a pretty good grope in the chest area. And not with the back of the hand anymore. I told the TSA agent only myself and my doctor were allowed to touch there. We tell our children to not allow this type of touching and to report anyone who does and now OUR GOVERNMENT is molesting people.
So if you haven't seen the clip yet here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3lbnSLalWQ |
Here, once again, we find ourselves on the same side of an issue. I also have a couple of medical implants. I have implants in my left femur and left tibia due to a serious motorcycle accident and because of these have also been subjected to pat downs, but so far not the probing kind.
There are plenty of stories of humiliating invasive searches by TSA agents and this procedure is still in it's infancy. The worst is yet to come.
I only fly recreationally and am willing and able to give that up. I don't know if my favorite airline, JetBlue, will miss me, but if there are enough like me I know they will.
I hear Janet Napolitano is considering a waiver for Muslim women. Imagine that? Increased security and muslims getting a waiver? Maybe you could fly wearing a burka soon and be spared this indignity.