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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said she was 'embarrassed' by TSA agent at Denver International Airport
7NEWS & The Denver Channel ^ | May 2, 2016 | Mark Boyle

Posted on 05/02/2016 7:00:29 AM PDT by george76

Colorado's six-time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen says agents with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) humiliated her.

She took to social media Sunday to detail her experience getting through security at Denver International Airport.

She said agents made her go through a full body search even though she has Pre check.

"They go around your breasts, they basically go under your butt and the just grab things, not grab, they touch things that are not appropriate and it's really embarrassing," said Van Dyken-Rouen.

Van Dyken-Rouen said as much as she and husband Tom travel all over the country, she’s never been screened like this or treated like this.

Van Dyken-Rouen took to Instagram shortly after getting through security to detail her experience and call out the agent who she said was rude to her.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: amyvandyken; amyvandykenrouen; dia; disabled; goldmedal; olympic; olympicgoldmedal; olympics; tsa; tsaagents; tsaassaults; tsaoutofcontrol; tsapervert; tsaperverts; tsapervs; tsathugs; vandyken; vandykenrouen
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To: george76

I wish that I could give a tasty treat or Gold Star whenever I am treated well by a TSA agent. Actually it happens quite often and I am convinced that a TSA agent will bring to their job the same persona that they wear when at home or around their loved ones.


21 posted on 05/02/2016 7:22:56 AM PDT by UncleSam (Why must someone else always make the final decisions?)
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To: realcleanguy

I would drive 5,000 miles rather than take air transportation anywhere. Driving is tiresome, it is slow, it is expensive, but mostly, you are not constantly humiliated, poked, prodded, and generally treated like a criminal with a warrant out for immediate detention and subject to arrest at any time. And all this is before you get on the plane as a passenger, where you are jostled, forced into a cramped position, and virtually forbidden to move about at all for periods up to several hours. Upon deplaning, you are now forced to go through the terminal to a point sometimes at great distance from the gate, to wait for and reclaim luggage, which may or may not be there, then there is a process, annoying at best and something of a nightmare if real problems have taken place, like routing the luggage filled with really vital items getting sent to another location, or lost altogether, with no opportunity to have it replaced on a timely basis. All this before you get OUT of the airport.

And that is if the flights are running on schedule.


22 posted on 05/02/2016 7:24:44 AM PDT by alloysteel (Je suis "America First")
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To: Twinkie

Departed DIA many times and never a problem except for occasional long lines. Don’t have Pre but have sometimes been sent there (Bonus!). What I have noticed, though, at that airport are some obnoxiously self-important people going to and coming from Vail—’nuf said.


23 posted on 05/02/2016 7:24:58 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Twinkie

TSA should never have been created.
Security protects airlines.

Airlines should hire the security they need.


24 posted on 05/02/2016 7:25:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: george76
At one time Rush Limbaugh did a daily skit on the employees who screened travellers at airports. Rush insinuated that perverts are drawn to jobs which give them access. This is where there is a procedure involving body searches. A persnickety elderly woman's voice twittered about "finding panties" in a purse. A sort of simpleton's male voice said "I used to soil myself down at the bus station". The voice went on to praise the opportunities to presumably act out his perversion.

Rush was then given the third degree at an airport. They scored a big hit when he had prescription Oxycontin in his luggage. He said he now could not fly because he was a target.

A sick situation and there does not seem to be any action by employers.

25 posted on 05/02/2016 7:26:29 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: mad_as_he$$

Who is ‘E”?.......................


26 posted on 05/02/2016 7:26:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: george76

And the very ones that have caused the trouble get a free pass. That is why I stopped flying way back when. In a dire emergency I would fly, but it would have to be dire. Now, if I can’t drive, I do not go.


27 posted on 05/02/2016 7:27:21 AM PDT by sport
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To: george76

Prior to the June 6th 2014 ATV accident that severed her spinal cord..

28 posted on 05/02/2016 7:28:15 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Red Badger
Who is ‘E”?

The one next to "W" on the keyboard? :-)

-PJ

29 posted on 05/02/2016 7:29:03 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Zathras

So your complaints actually worked? I would be worried that the reverse would happen, either you would end up on a “list” or the TSA would decide to investigate the complaint and hold you until you missed your flight.


30 posted on 05/02/2016 7:29:12 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: george76

Sweetie you should have gone through screening in Amsterdam last month like I did. Precheck be damned. And guess what I felt safe once I cleared the multiple levels of security which included three passport check, interview, pat down, technology swabbed for explosives, etc.


31 posted on 05/02/2016 7:29:20 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (TRUMP. YES! Bye Bye hiLIARy.)
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To: Twinkie

Yes because everyone knows that women who get harrassed/molested had it coming by acting immodestly. You would fit right in in some third world cesspool.


32 posted on 05/02/2016 7:29:36 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: Red Badger; mad_as_he$$

Exactly who is this "E" person you have referenced? Names are better than vague initials.

33 posted on 05/02/2016 7:31:34 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Twinkie

DO you realize that she’s paralyzed & in a wheelchair?


34 posted on 05/02/2016 7:31:57 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert; Twinkie

You should have included, “or care”. The answer would have probably have been no to both.


35 posted on 05/02/2016 7:35:47 AM PDT by sport
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To: Political Junkie Too

The one next to "W" on the keyboard? :-)

"Q"?....................................

36 posted on 05/02/2016 7:36:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: 31R1O
IF women don’t want to be groped; they need to dress modestly & cover their “assets”.

I am 64 yr old woman who always dresses modestly, but with 2 knee replacements I still have to submit to the TSA "grope" if they don't have one of those large scanners available even though I also have the TSA Precheck.

The last time the agent asked if I wanted to step behind the screen and I said no, do it in front of the line of passengers waiting to be screened. I watched the shock on their faces while the TSA agent ran her hands over my breasts, between my thighs, around and over my butt. I asked her why don't they just use a hand wand to scan my knees and she replied that someone could be using the "knee replacement" excuse to smuggle a weapon on board. Seems to me there has to be a better way.....

37 posted on 05/02/2016 7:38:12 AM PDT by noexcuses
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To: Blue Jays; Red Badger

“E” is next in line from “W” in the blame game. I’ve moved on.

Thank you for playing!


38 posted on 05/02/2016 7:38:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Red Badger
LOL!

-PJ

39 posted on 05/02/2016 7:38:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: george76

I had one of these stooges harrumphing about ounces of this and Ziploc bags of that in my carryon.

I looked him in the eye and said ‘I don’t need a lecture. I have no interest in making your job easy. You work for me not the other way round.’


40 posted on 05/02/2016 7:39:52 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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