Posted on 03/29/2008 10:50:51 AM PDT by SmithL
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.
Mandi Hamlin, 37, had demanded an apology and her Los Angeles-based attorney sent a letter to the TSA this week requesting a civil rights investigation.
Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a TSA agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings. The agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.
Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked whether she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was out, she said.
Hamlin was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring
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Mandi Hamlin, right, claims a Transportation Security Administration agent forced her to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane. She demonstrates what she was asked to do by the TSA during a news conference Thursday, March 27, 2008, in Los Angeles, as her attorney Gloria Allred looks on
SHE has nibble rings. Lol
Lubbock to Dallas.
350 miles.
Would have been faster, cheaper and simpler to drive. Even without “jewelry” issues.
Probably the only excitement she’s had in decades.
I bet she would have more fun if the agent tried to remove them
Next, we’ll have Muslim Terrorist women getting hand-grenade breast implants, with the rings plated with gold and protruding.
Mark my words...
GUILTY!
I have not flown anywhere since long before 9/11, so I have no idea what is or isn't allowed (I hear you have to take your shoes off).
If someone thinks she was going to take over a plane with those little bits of metal, then they shouldn't be allowed to even dress themselves, as their mental capacity is obviously lacking.
ELAINE: I didn’t notice! Oh, what am I going to do? You know your whole life you go through painstaking efforts to hide your nipple and then BOOM, suddenly hundreds of people get their own personal shot of it.
That’s why Helen Thomas never flies ever since she was accused of having pierced knees.
I mentioned that yesterday to Mr. M and he said it wasn’t likely. I, however, agree with you.
There, fixed it.
You beat me to it. They could even be fags in drag, but the muzzies will learn from this.
> I mentioned that yesterday to Mr. M and he said it wasn’t likely. I, however, agree with you.
It’s a scenario that is surely plausible. The Bad Guys are adept with IEDs, and there is more than a few doctors and surgeons in their midst. A grenade implant would not be beyond their capability. And if they made the shrapnel out of glass marbles or something similar, it would be virtually undetectable with the metal scanner. Wired to the ribs for weight support...
...crikey! I’m spooking myself!
The “power pasties” from Flesh Gordon.
It is now a RIGHT to wear a NIPPLE RING on an Airplane so TERRORISTS everywhere “take note!”
There’s also penis piercings for men. Just for fun, I checked the specifications and found I’d need about 4 pounds of metal.
> You beat me to it. They could even be fags in drag, but the muzzies will learn from this.
Count on it. I just watched United 93 for the first time last nite. The muzzies are nothing if not a resourceful, clever enemy.
I thought twice, then three times before posting the implant idea: one doesn’t want to give the Bad Guys ideas after all. But no doubt this will have occurred to them already: it is more important to make sure it occurs to the Good Guys.
Forewarned is Forearmed.
To TWA: you meat-heads! The policy was just fine the way it was.
That's a woman?? She looks quite masculine in that picture.
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