TSA discovers dangerous new weapon.

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LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman who said 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.

The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said. * * *

Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked whether she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was out, she said.

She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.

"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," said Hamlin's attorney, ***

Hamlin filed a complaint, but the TSA's customer service manager at the Lubbock airport concluded the screening was handled properly, Allred said.

"The conduct of TSA was cruel and unnecessary," Allred wrote. "The last time that I checked a nipple was not a dangerous weapon."

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[Ithaca37]

I just read that in the paper. Those guys should lose their jobs. There is no excuse for humiliating someone like that. She was allowed on after she removed the rings....with her belly button ring still on. Those guys just wanted to humiliate her.

Shows us your papers.​

 

[TexasRifleman]

Those guys just wanted to humiliate her.

Maybe not, probably just stupidity.

They need to remove metal until the metal detector doesn't go off.

If that means the plate in your head has to go there's probably a couple out there willing to get the saw out.

This is what happens when you put something like this in the hands of a gubment with "equal opportunity" hiring regulations.
(I'm not talking race here so don't start on that one)

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Interesting, but not gun-related.