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TSA Forces 90-Year-Old Woman to Take Off Bra, Shirt
PJ Media ^ | 10/29/2015 | Liz Sheld

Posted on 10/29/2015 9:54:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


According to her son, a 90-year-old woman was forced to strip off her shirt and bra for Oregon Transportation Security Administration agents because her emergency cash set off alarm sensors while she was going through the security apparatus.

Her son Alan Charney told KATU-TV his mother Harriette Charney had to take off her shirt and bra inside the Portland International Airport after a scanner picked up on an abnormality on her chest.

Threat to the republic?

“There was no sanity or sensitivity at all to the work that they were doing,” Charney said.

Mrs. Charney was heading back to the East Coast after a visit with her son in Portland. She carried emergency money in her bra in case her purse was stolen. (Who else has mothers that do this? Mine does!)

Once the scanners noticed the “abnormality,” Mother Charney was diverted into a room for another security check. Her son said she was asked to remove all her clothing from the waist up.

The TSA said in its defense that being asked to remove clothing is highly unusual and they are investigating the incident.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airport; security; tsa
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To: SeekAndFind

“Ma’am, our scanner shows something odd in your bra. Do you have any idea what it could be?”

“Oh, that’s the money I carry there.”

“Here, can you step into this booth and take it out, then let us scan you again?”

This is what would happen if there was any sanity left.


21 posted on 10/29/2015 10:14:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Aw, you left off “She wanted it”.


22 posted on 10/29/2015 10:14:50 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: rhoda_penmark

Well, duh.

They ALL want it.

(I am of course being sarcastic. “All” would include my wife and all former girlfriends.)


23 posted on 10/29/2015 10:16:55 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: reaganaut

Great story! Sorry to hear you have lost your mom, I know you miss her.


24 posted on 10/29/2015 10:17:12 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind

Hello, I’m applying for a job with TSA.

Are you breathing?

Yes.

YOU’RE HIRED!


25 posted on 10/29/2015 10:20:09 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Revelation 911

I haven’t flown since September 1, 1989.


26 posted on 10/29/2015 10:20:47 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Register liberals, not guns!)
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To: Vermont Lt

E. The TSA Personnel Dept supports affirmative action for perverts.


27 posted on 10/29/2015 10:21:18 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: SeekAndFind
Dubya is responsible for this, and I voted for him.

Just goes to prove my tagline.

28 posted on 10/29/2015 10:23:45 AM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: I want the USA back

My last stop before CLT earlier this year was a horse farm near Tryon NC. It evidently triggered an explosive alert at TSA based on fertilizer around my shoes. Normally a “preferred” traveler who didn’t have to remove my shoes, I was rather put through the full search process where my carry-on luggage was thoroughly searched and I was escorted to a room where I was completely patted down by a gloved agent with another TSA escort present.

They were quite professional, and I was advised each time they wanted to feel around a private part of my body, but I was not stripped.

In fact the only time I was offended during the process was when I was asked by an “Explosives Expert” if I were “a gun advocate”.

Surprised, I replied that I was a “Second Amendment advocate” but that I had no weapons with me.

Total detention time was about 30 minutes. But as I was characteristically early at the terminal, I went and had a beer near my gate...thinking though, that they might have given me a voucher for such for my trouble.


29 posted on 10/29/2015 10:24:03 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind

She must have been packing a load of dough.


30 posted on 10/29/2015 10:25:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: reaganaut

I don’t know your mother, but I love her! I’d have been tempted to do something similar, I think.


31 posted on 10/29/2015 10:27:16 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: NormsRevenge

I had cash in my front pant pocket I neglected to remove before going thru xray. They gave me a ration of crap, but allowed me to remove it and go back thru. Nobody asked me to drop trow. Should have done the same for this woman.


32 posted on 10/29/2015 10:28:11 AM PDT by umgud (v)
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To: Finny

Many people have been lax when it comes to what even goes on the main ballot (i.e. what is called a primary process). Interest levels have historically been low. George W. Bush was, in part, the beneficiary of primary malaise.

If Donald Trump changes nothing else, he has changed this.


33 posted on 10/29/2015 10:30:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

34 posted on 10/29/2015 10:32:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Some decades ago when I was a bit younger and more naive, I asked a foreign immigrant how he liked living in a free country. He said, you have no idea what a free country is.

It hasn’t got better since then.


35 posted on 10/29/2015 10:37:07 AM PDT by marron
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To: SeekAndFind
I hate the TSA.
I loathe the TSA - I find them despicable and use our own plane to travel when at all possible even though it costs more for fuel and we have to plan around weather.
36 posted on 10/29/2015 10:38:11 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ready made issue for Trump, or Cruz...or anybody.


37 posted on 10/29/2015 10:40:09 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Vermont Lt

LOL but of course!


38 posted on 10/29/2015 10:40:56 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I haven’t flown since August 1972. (Eastern was still in business.) I win.


39 posted on 10/29/2015 10:42:20 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: reaganaut

I would totally do that! (If I ever fly again)


40 posted on 10/29/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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