Alarms went off, she must have had some metal objects on her person that she had not removed.
She had a wad of cash in her bra. A metal detector wouldn’t have found it. TSA likely figured they had caught a drug mule.
My elderly mother had a rod in one, and steel plates in another femur ....which she had fractured over time [but repaired] , due to osteoporosis.
To *look* at her you wouldn’t notice that she was anything more than a 92 y/o grannie.
Alarms would go off like crazy .... she carried verifications from her surgeons to attest to the fact. TSA didn’t care. They are jerks. First class jerks.
Not true. Alarms can be set off by nothing at all. I was stopped after going through the metal detector, and wanded all over. the wand set off an alarm as it passed over my left shoulder. I have no metal in my shoulder, no metal of any kind anywhere on my body. The idiot patted me all around my shoulder, repeatedly asked me why his alarm was going off--as if I could tell him. Finally he just shrugged and let me go.
Gotta remember, these people are government employees and union to boot.