[noexcuses]

Flying out of Paine Field with 2 knee replacements, I was taken into a back room for a more "invasive" patdown after the 1st patdown didn't satisfy them. Maybe because I suggested they use a wand scanner around my knees. I was in tears but afraid to say anything else even as the TSA lady put her hand down the crack of my behind as she had me bent over spread eagled. They even swabbed the bottom of my feet checking for trace of chemicals.

Finally decided that I wasn't a threat and let me board the plane. Been hesitant to file a written complaint in fear being "red flagged" for future flights. This is just not right.

[Enterprise]

That’s awful. I think it’s worthy of a complaint, but I would suggest contacting a lawyer first.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I got in their face. They wouldn’t let me fly that day but it was worth it. F them.

[Fai Mao]

Then there are the TSA employees with a rye sense of humor.

One black guy in Newark was instructing people to remove shoes but not jewelry because, as he said, “If you wearing it the women X-rayin’ it can’t steal it.”

Several years ago I flew back from HK with my foot in a walking cast due to a broken ankle. A TSA screener in Anchorage asked me to take my shoes off. I pointed to the walking cast and said I couldn’t. He took me to a chair and used the wand and swabbed down the cast and shoe. Then he looked at my passport and asked me to spell my name, the date I was born and so forth. Finally he asked “Quickly without thinking about it, What is the first name of your three best friends?” (I had to think fast because one of my friends in HK is a man named Abdul who is an ex-Muslim.) I answered, Paul, Ed and Brett.

He said good, “I don’t you look like the kind of guy who’d blow up a plane.”

[bigbob]

You should. Hope you will.