Posted on 10/03/2007 6:22:26 PM PDT by Bean Counter
A Bonners Ferry woman says she was humiliated when security guards at the federal courthouse in Coeur d'Alene told her she'd have to remove her underwire bra to get inside.
Lori Plato said she was going into the courthouse for a court hearing Sept. 20 when the metal detector went off as she passed through security.
"When I walked through, the gentleman said, "'Do you have an underwire bra on?'." Plato said. "I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'You have to remove it.' "
But there was nowhere private to remove her bra, she said. The guards suggested she go out to her car to do it.
Instead, Plato who describes herself as "not petite" said she removed her bra while her husband tried to shield her from view of others in the crowded lobby by holding up his coat.
She said she had to put the bra on a conveyor belt and send it through an x-ray machine.
"After I got through the metal detector and waited for my bra to come through the conveyor belt, one of the security guards said, "'That's a girl,'" Plato said. She thought the guard was making fun of her.
The U.S. Marshal's Service, which supervises security at the courthouse, said Plato was given options and chose not to exercise them. She was told she could have gone to her car or to a neighboring business to remove the bra, U.S. Marshal Patrick McDonald said.
"She's inflating it," McDonald said.
If she is built like she implied, once they got loose she should have swung one at them and maimed them for life.
A friend of mine who wrecked her foot in a car accident has to take an x-ray with her to the airport, showing where the titanium screws are.
It’s a courthouse, not a two-bit shack in nowhereville.
They generally have rules/policies that they need to have female officers around so that if they have to do a pat down one is around.
It’s not like law enforcement people don’t know how to staff buildings, they do it at airports, they do it in other federal buildings and other courthouses for this very reason. It’s not a hard burden to do this. YOU seem to have a problem with it however.
And BTW, for the goof who said this is like him having to take off a belt, that is clear bullsh1t. You can take off your belt without having to take off your pants.
ROFL... no comment ;)
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You mean to tell me a federal courthouse in Coeur d'Alene can't come up with a way to screen a woman with an underwire bra without having her remove the bra? That's just damn stupid.
Take your head off and run it through the X-ray machine, or some goon impersonating a security guard will take it off for you.
She sounds like the perfect date.
They couldn’t take any chances. It might have been a bullet bra.
I’d ping the FReeper who sells them, but I can’t remember his handle.
She wasn't amused.
Even less so when stowing my jacket on the plane, I found a tin of Altoids in an inside pocket...
At a party, somebody told a story about a friend that bought a new washing machine. After a couple of weeks, she finds a "part" when pulling out the clothes. The repairman shows up, and she show him the "part". "That's part of an underwire bra" he tells her, as he's pulls out his work log.
I don't have any love for moslems, but I'm not going to pretend they're the ones who decided to treat middle class Americans like prison inmates. That has been escalating for decades, and the only thing moslems have to do with it is they make a good scapegoat to speed it up.
Actually in my case, without my belt my pants fall off (recently lost 60 pounds).
Degrading and uneccessary comment.
Gotta feel sorry for her husband.
Nice to see somebody on this thread is able to figure that out.
I have had the experience of being blind sided by someone and humiliated at the time. Once I got to regroup however my indignation and anger took over. Anger at myself for allowing the humiliation and anger at the person for having done so. The aftermath wasnt pretty.
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