Posted on 10/03/2007 6:22:26 PM PDT by Bean Counter
A Bonners Ferry woman says she was humiliated when security guards at the federal courthouse in Coeur d'Alene told her she'd have to remove her underwire bra to get inside.
Lori Plato said she was going into the courthouse for a court hearing Sept. 20 when the metal detector went off as she passed through security.
"When I walked through, the gentleman said, "'Do you have an underwire bra on?'." Plato said. "I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'You have to remove it.' "
But there was nowhere private to remove her bra, she said. The guards suggested she go out to her car to do it.
Instead, Plato — who describes herself as "not petite" — said she removed her bra while her husband tried to shield her from view of others in the crowded lobby by holding up his coat.
She said she had to put the bra on a conveyor belt and send it through an x-ray machine.
"After I got through the metal detector and waited for my bra to come through the conveyor belt, one of the security guards said, "'That's a girl,'" Plato said. She thought the guard was making fun of her.
The U.S. Marshal's Service, which supervises security at the courthouse, said Plato was given options and chose not to exercise them. She was told she could have gone to her car or to a neighboring business to remove the bra, U.S. Marshal Patrick McDonald said.
"She's inflating it," McDonald said.
Nah. Right arm out/ the left, then freedom.
nope. not that easy.
Never heard of that one, but I DO remember the "Pencil Test"...
LOL
This begs for a joke about a pair of 38’s but I’m not going to stoop to that level.
But if we wanna talk about .45’s.....!
Just takes practice:’)
My family and I were searched on the way into a museum and we didn't run to the 5 o'clock news.
Pencil test is for members of the itty bitty committee.
Maybe THAT’s what happened! Now I would understand why she was humiliated!
nope. If you can do the ‘can test’ then a quick bra removal is a bit more challenging.
Yet another non Muslim American who has to suffer because of the behavior of your Muslim males.
Of course, that is Hate Speech.
I have the same issue every time I fly through Kansas City. Always get pulled for the pat down. And I’m a frequent business traveler. Now, I wear a sports bra when I’m going out of there.
That reminds me of a basketball game between our Summer resort staff and a girls camp staff. It was played in our gymnasium.
When the opposing team arrived they were wearing jerseys identical in color to our girls. I was rec director and went to the rec shack and retrieved a bunch of printed T-shirts from a prior event.
I handed them out to all our girls (around 15 of them) and to my surprise they all put the new shirts on over their others then proceeded to easily take the old ones off in public, (actually during a timeout) without the slightest problem and without showing any skin at all. The thing which was so amazing to me is that they all knew just how to do something I would have thought impossible.
“She’s inflating it,”
LOL!!!!
"She's inflating it," McDonald said.
No , It was an underwire bra
Never had heard THAT one, but it's good...
Neither had the principal of our high school when my friends and I wore T-shirts with I.B.T.C. printed across the front!
Yup. Comply or else. The options she was given for a stupid underwire bra were really half-assed ones. They could’ve had a female guard do a pat search if they absolutely had to, and be done with it.
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