“Don’t Touch My Junk” Flier Unlikely to Face Fine
by Craig Schulz | November 17, 2010
Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole doubts the “don’t touch my junk” traveler, John Tyner, will face the $10,000 fine allowed by law.
“I don’t anticipate anything coming from that,” Pistole said.
Tyner secretly recorded his TSA pat down experience on a cell phone camera and has become one of the voices in a chorus of angry Americans protesting the new security procedures in place at the nation’s airports.
And if you’re traveling soon, consider yourself forewarned: Even the man in charge of the TSA’s aggressive new procedure says he was “uncomfortable” the first time he received a pat down.
“It is clearly more invasive,” Pistole admitted to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee Wednesday. He insisted that he receive a pat down before deploying it as a security technique nationwide.
But that doesn’t mean the public outcry over the pat downs and scanners is going to lead to a scaling back of the tactic.