Pat-downs anger RDU fliers ("something suspicious hanging between your legs")

News Observer ^ | Dec 14, 2010 | BRUCE SICELOFF

[Innovative]

Tim Ely, a retired Army officer who once commanded a military police unit in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed an online complaint after a Nov. 20 confrontation at RDU. He was subjected to an intimate pat-down because of a false alarm from the body scanner.

After an agent groped around his genitals from in front and from behind, Ely challenged him to explain what sort of anomaly had turned up on his full-body scan.

"He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs," Ely, 63, wrote in his RDU online comment. "I told him that something suspicious was my [genitals], you dummy."

[Innovative]

Doesn't this just make you feel really safe?

[Lazamataz]

Dude must be stacked.

[ozark hilljilly]

Must have been the brass balls.

[aces]

All decorated for Christmas?

[Electric Graffiti]

Balls as big as church bells.

[ClearBlueSky]

Makes you wonder where they get these ‘agents’. Didn’t the man RECOGNIZE what was hanging between another man’s legs?
Suspicious?? On what planet? If something is metal or plastic, maybe, but-just damn!

[ExTexasRedhead]

OMG, has insanity become the norm? Did they call Barney Frank immediately?

[Free Vulcan]

Well the upside is if he’s single he might be getting more interest from the ladies.

[Right Brother]

Dude must be stacked.

This guy should have "don't touch my junk" written on the cuffs of his pants.

[hosepipe]

Sounds to me like a story to BRAG ABOUT..
"I was on my way to Chicago the other day AND.........."

[OB1kNOb]

This article reads like a cheap soft porn novel.

[Lurker]

This happened to me flying out of Reno last month. I got the preliminary pat down and the next thing I knew I was selected for an 'enhanced' frisking by 3 young female TSA Agents.

They explained that I'd been selected so that these women could refresh their training. The whole thing didn't take more than an hour.

[null and void]

OMG, has insanity become the norm?

Yes.

[WellyP]

I can’t wait until one of these “over reaching” f-gg-ts gets slammed against a wall!

[andy58-in-nh]

OMG, has insanity become the norm? Did they call Barney Frank immediately?

He's already volunteered.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I have something suspicious hanging between my legs, too, but when the ladies are around, it kinda pokes upward instead.

[SatinDoll]

I’ve always wanted to see more of the U.S.A. Might as well drive. Though it will be difficult to get to France.

[Prokopton]

“I’ve always wanted to see more of the U.S.A. Might as well drive. Though it will be difficult to get to France.”

Nonsense. It's a nice drive to Paris.

http://www.parisaronline.com/

[massgopguy]

Time to post a still from Spinal Tap!

[USNBandit]

Maybe it's a problem with their training devices.