[Bean Counter]

Spanning the Globe...

[BunnySlippers]

"She's inflating it," McDonald said.

Haha!

[sodpoodle]

U.S. Marshal Patrick McDonald

“She’s inflating it,” McDonald said.

Good grief - he’s gonna be looking for a new job!

[South40]

No pics?

[OCC]

Better safe than sorry....

[mrs tiggywinkle]

I know there’s plenty of fun being made here about this subject, but there’s no reason for them to insist she remove her bra. This would indeed be humiliating to a woman. The security guard would surely have a device to check the properties of the undergarment.

[traditional1]

LOL !

She wasn't a member of "breasts, not bombs", was she?

If so, somebody's toes were at risk!

[jdm]

Reminds me of that old Saturday Night Live (1992, I think) sketch where Sharon Stone is walking through a metal detector at the airport.

Every time she walks through it, the alarm sounds, and she's asked to remove another article of clothing.

Pretty soon she's down to just her bra and a few other things and the airport screeners (played by Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey and Rob Schneider) are saying stuff to her like, "Now, arch your back for more security."

I don't think it's on YouTube or else I'd post it. It's a classic.

[mgstarr]

The U.S. Marshals make the FBI look bright.

[sarasmom]

Why is every personally potentially embarrassing incident now almost universally deemed “humiliating” ?
I smell reporters and lawyers...Oh, thats right, it was at a courthouse.Nevermind

[donnab]

that guard ought to be glad that woman wasnt me.
Last year going through Manchester airport in England, I got pull from line and patted down because of an underwire bra. The security people were polite and respectful.
There is no excuse for the behavior of the guard and no reason she should have had to remove her bra.
I would have told him if he removed his jock seeing how he must have reinforced it, I would then remove my bra.

[Calpernia]

Foreshadowings to another burn the bra movement

[pandoraou812]

I’ve gone through those detectors & I always have an underwire bra on. At no time has anyone ever questioned me.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"She's inflating it," McDonald said.

[Eagle Eye]

This begs for a joke about a pair of 38’s but I’m not going to stoop to that level.

But if we wanna talk about .45’s.....!

[yarddog]

That reminds me of a basketball game between our Summer resort staff and a girls camp staff. It was played in our gymnasium.

When the opposing team arrived they were wearing jerseys identical in color to our girls. I was rec director and went to the rec shack and retrieved a bunch of printed T-shirts from a prior event.

I handed them out to all our girls (around 15 of them) and to my surprise they all put the new shirts on over their others then proceeded to easily take the old ones off in public, (actually during a timeout) without the slightest problem and without showing any skin at all. The thing which was so amazing to me is that they all knew just how to do something I would have thought impossible.

[Jet Jaguar]

“She’s inflating it,”

LOL!!!!

[grjr21]

 

"She's inflating it," McDonald said.

 

No , It was an underwire  bra

 

[the invisib1e hand]

thankfully we don’t have underwire jock straps.

[the invisib1e hand]

all kidding aside, the antics of the tsa are notorious. do they have score off-the-chart on the devious-perv test to get the job?

[highlander_UW]

I'm sure that in all fairness that they will demand all men to remove their underwire bras as well.

On a serious note, this seems to be an unreasonable demand. Typically, there is a woman officer present to take a female suspect aside if there were a concern.