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Heavy metal: Underwire bra trips up airport cops
Boston Herald ^ | August 28, 2008 | Jessica Fargen

Posted on 08/29/2008 7:40:01 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A California woman is crying gender discrimination after she claims she was forced to strip off her bra and walk through airport security without support after being busted when the underwires in her lingerie set off a metal detector.

The brassiere boondoggle took place Sunday morning at Oakland International Airport as Nancy Kates, a 45-year-old documentary filmmaker who grew up in Lexington, was going through security on her way to Boston.

“I felt I was being treated like a criminal,” said the Harvard-educated Kates, who was headed to Massachusetts to see her mother and vacation on the Cape.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bra; kates; security; tsa
And she's Harvard-educated. There isn't a separate line for that?
1 posted on 08/29/2008 7:40:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

What do you bet she is a DemonRat


2 posted on 08/29/2008 7:47:56 AM PDT by Core_Conservative (Proud to be "The self-righteous, gun-totin, military lovin, abortion-hatin, gay-loathin'...")
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Almost afraid to ask whether pics are needed...


3 posted on 08/29/2008 8:03:38 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
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To: JRios1968

LIke your tag lind but I have one too. “Never hit a leftist when they are down. KICK THEM, it is much easier”


4 posted on 08/29/2008 8:21:38 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: 70th Division; MindBender26

I believe the credit for the tagline belongs to MB


5 posted on 08/29/2008 8:31:33 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

What happened to feminists who insisted that going bra-less was “liberating” (no matter how obviously one needed a bra)? I guess the bra-burning crowd must be mostly in nursing homes by now, but they must be scratching their heads hard over this one.

Photos of Ms. Kates reveal that she needs to lose a few dozen pounds. She’d be healthier and wouldn’t need to regard a couple of minutes without a bra as a major imposition.


6 posted on 08/29/2008 8:31:55 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
wouldn’t need to regard a couple of minutes without a bra as a major imposition.

I suppose you'd stillk feel that way if you were flagged for wearing a metal cup athletic supporter.

7 posted on 08/29/2008 8:49:27 AM PDT by lightman (Waiting for Godot and searching for Avignon)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
“Just because a passenger says they are wearing an underwire bra or they say they have a hip replacement that’s metal ... we can’t take the word of the passenger unfortunately,” Melendez said.

Right.

8 posted on 08/29/2008 8:54:08 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: JRios1968; 70th Division

It’s a complement that any FReeper would use it. Feel free.

re: Sarah Palin et al.

This is a good day!


9 posted on 08/29/2008 9:15:25 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
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To: MindBender26

Thanks

Yes Sarah is a good choice. I see the Dems picked an old white guy. SOS lets see them sell THAT as change. Palin is a true conservitive who hunts and fishes and has a down syndrome baby that she did NOT abort. DEM women wake UP! You just got screwed by your own party AGAIN. And did you notice no blacks on the first floor at the speech?


10 posted on 08/29/2008 9:21:58 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Two words: sports bra.

Some more words: After seeing pix of Ms. Kates, be afraid, be VERY afraid of seeing her WITHOUT A BRA! Think Helen Thomas in Playboy. (NO, NO, NO, please don’t post any pix of Helen Thomas, I beg you!)

She’s “Harvard educated” and “lived in Berkeley for 17 years”. Nuff said.


11 posted on 08/29/2008 9:36:26 AM PDT by garyhope (It's world war IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam. VRWC. TWP.)
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To: garyhope
Begging won't help you!


12 posted on 08/29/2008 9:44:43 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Ya just had to do it didn’t ya! Shame. I’ve gotta go take a bath and have several strong adult beverages to forget the image. Thanks a lot.


13 posted on 08/29/2008 11:23:38 AM PDT by garyhope (It's world war IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam. VRWC. TWP.)
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To: MindBender26

“This is a good day!”

Damn right. I’ve already opened the wine and tonight I’m opening the champagne (American domestic of course! LOL)

I’m going to gloat and boast and rub their faces in it to all my Dim Dhim friends.

McCain and Palin just kicked their smug, sorry, arrogant, condescending, anti American Dim butts.


14 posted on 08/29/2008 11:29:57 AM PDT by garyhope (It's world war IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam. VRWC. TWP.)
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