Posted on 11/22/2010 8:50:52 PM PST by FTJM
As we reported over the weekend, Thomas Sawyer, a retired Michigan teacher and cancer survivor, was on his way to Florida when an airport security check left him humiliated and covered in his own urine. Sawyer’s story stands out among the many incidents reported in the past week about invasive TSA screening procedures as agents neglected to respect Sawyer and his delicate condition and medical equipment.
“I didn’t know what to do. I felt kind of trapped,” Sawyer says, recalling the embarrassing episode earlier this month at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Sawyer sat down with Detroit’s WJBK and CNN for an interview:
Thomas Sawyer, a retired Michigan teacher and cancer survivor on his way to Florida, says he was left humiliated and covered in his own urine following a pat-down by Transportation Security Association (TSA) officers earlier this month at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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This just gave me an idea for some non-violent protest.
What if we all decided to urinate during the screenings?
Thousands of us, tens of thousands, peeing all over the TSA.
I’m not joking.
I agree with you 110 peecent!
What really shocked me when I heard this man’s story this morning was the comment he related from the TSA agent that he did not know what a urostomy was. There are all kinds of ostomy devices out there including colostomy and gastostomy accessories that allow patients the ability to lead normal or near normal lives. It is unbelievable that any TSA agent would be ignorant of those conditions and devices, and would be conducting an intrusive patdown on a patient who was wearing one.
The lack of the most fundamental training on an issue like this that affects literally millions of people is grounds by itself for a Judge to issue an immediate restraining order on TSA, and submit all of these procedures to a thorough Judicial patdown...
Or rather, just put something harmless in your underwear and between your legs when going through security. A golf-ball, an eraser, a wrapped twinkie. Are there laws against carrying a toothbrush in your underwear?
Anything to keep the doofus’ at TSA busy.
What if one of those colostomy bags were to rip or come off during the groping ? that surely would be a stinky place....
Home Health Care Nurse today told us that tampons can also be a problem for detection!
I don’t find it unbelievable at all. There are some good TSA agents out there, but there are many more that have the typical bored, unmotivated “DMV Type” government worker mentality.
This whole thing is getting out of hand. I'm voting with my feet and not flying anymore. The first time some low life civil servent tried to grope me I would not be on FR until I got out of jail.
It’s time for a massive class action law suit.
Row V Wade established privacy as a constitutional civil right.
Government is intruding on the right to privacy.
It should be worth millions.
Since the TSA agent didn’t know what a urostomy was (neither did I), then perhaps the TSA gropers should be medical doctors. They are already highly trained professional gropers with a degree to prove it. I’d hate to have doctors used this way but I’d rather a doctor grope people than a punk.
I’ve been doing it wrong. I had mine on my head.
Yikes! That would make some wedgie!
Getting peed on wouldn’t hurt them. All they would do is put on another set of rubber globes.
If everyone got the patty cake, it would slow the airport screenings to a crawl. If everyone refused the X-ray, the time loss would start hitting the operating budget. Time is money and the owners would start hollering for a change.
If they ever snap the clip off the bottom of a colostomy bag, they’ll learn the hard way not to roughly handle any medical device ending in “ostomy”.
One should fashion a lead lined codpiece to protect the scrotum area from chromosome destroying X-rays. It would be a justifiable procedure. It would also be a way to have fun with their senseless game. You go through the scanner and the operator would see this lead pouch over the scrotum. They would demand that you take the codpiece off, wasting lots of time. You tell them it is the same protection your dentist provides you when you get your teeth X-rayed. It is the least protection you can provide the chromosomes that will bring your future children.
So, they have you remove the protective lead codpiece. The X-ray would be a complete waste of time. They still need to know what is in the codpiece. What do they do next? Put you through a worthless time consuming pat down just to check out what was hidden under the pouch? Of course. It shows the ridiculous nature of this obsession with the scrotum. And, of course, this is an useless obsession.
Are they preparing the public for equally worthless full body cavity searches of the anus and the vagina? Yes. Worthless.
All these efforts will be worthless because the suicide jihadist will have his bomb surgically implanted in his abdomen. It will be detonated by a circuit hidden in his cell phone that transmits a signal to a small detonator circuit hidden inside the hip bone. And if I thought of it, I am sure there are operating rooms in the Middle East getting their human bombs ready for the assault.
“Yikes! That would make some wedgie!”
Wedgie by design, but talk about chafe. Ouch!
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