Posted on 04/12/2017 8:41:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Little can surprise me in terms of the TSA’s waste, incompetence and sheer indignity, but this story may mark a new low.
It’s about Evelyn Harris, a 65-year-old retiree who was flying out of Washington, D.C., this past January when she committed the terrible terrorism crime known as wearing a pantyliner.
Harris went through the body scanner and thought she was free to proceed to her flight. A TSA agent thought otherwise.
“I started to ask if I had done something wrong or if this was ‘random,’ but before I could get a second word out, the TSA agent yelled at me,” Harris told The Washington Post in an interview. “She grabbed my throat hard, causing me to choke and cough. She yelled at me for coughing.”
“She then put her hands inside my bra and panties and groped my private parts with the front, not the back, of her gloved hand. Afterward, I worried that I may have been infected if she had groped someone else without changing gloves,” Harris added. “Her attitude was so threatening and hostile, that I was afraid to look at her face and name plate.”
After her ordeal, Harris filed a complaint. As the Post details, her concerns didn’t receive much sympathy from the TSA:
[T]he pat-down was legit, the investigator said. Intimate apparel has been a source of concern ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day 2009 by detonating a bomb hidden in his underwear.
The investigator told Harris, she said, that “his own wife carried a panty liner with her and put it on after security, as this is something that could trigger a search.” Indeed, turns out all sorts of feminine hygiene products could be grounds for a search, according to the TSA.
It’s that last bit which really gets me: This is a government agency which says that basic hygiene products are all the excuse it needs to permit agents to stick their hands inside your underwear, in public, without a warrant or, it seems, much in the way of a warning. Ladies, just plan your hygiene needs around the TSA’s preferences if you don’t want to be molested.
Tales of TSA misconduct are a dime a dozen, but this is the first I recall seeing the agency affirm this level of groping is standard procedure. Anyway, here’s yet another reminder that the TSA still sucks and we’ve become way too complacent about it.
In his acceptance speech at the July convention in Cleveland, candidate Donald Trump DID mention something about reigning in the TSA....I forget his exact words.
So far, though, nothing. If anything, the TSAholes are getting worse.
Maybe Trump will do something if he and the mrs are ever grouped. He could right now order that this kind of treatment stop.
If ya’ll want this to stop, stop flying. One single week with mass refusal to participate and the TSA will be brought offline. Bigly. The fallback is always - bloody revolution but these are Americans here so scratch that.
American airports are THE WORST in the world.
I don’t fly. As a former FE on Army Chinooks, I loved flying. The real problem I have here, throat punches to these badge monkeys is not conducive to a long healthy life, but throat punch I would, so fly I will not! FUTSA! And the .gov you rode in on.
Touch my junk and you go to the hospital while I go to jail.
Lose lose situation.
5.56mm
When he was a private citizen, Donald Trump travelled on his private 757 jet. He didn’t have to deal with the TSA.
As president, he flies around on Air Force One. He and the first lady will never encounter a blue shirted groper.
*** “but throat punch I would” ***
Are you my long lost Brother? I would follow up with a front kick to whichever knee he/she/it was using to hold his fat ass up with and make it work backwards for him/she/it.
That with a dislocated shoulder has ended a few wanna be tough guys at local watering holes, not a single chair or table was thrown after proper application.
I have to tell them that I am old and won’t chase them down so I figured I’d just hobble them upfront to make sure that they get what they asked for.
I aim to please
*** “THAT IS MY PENIS. YOU JUST PUT YOUR HAND ON MY PENIS. YOU ARE STILL PUTTING YOUR HAND ON MY PENIS” ***
Wonder what would happen if you preceded that comment with “I am Mooslim” ???
You are talking to the wrong group. See my post #45. There’s a lot of talk on here, but something as simple as the boycott we are talking about seems to much for a bunch who proclaim their love of freedom and their willingness to stand for their rights.
I hope he remembers to address these horrendous abuses. Our troops overseas are under more scrutiny than these TSA thugs. Our troops got to prison for defending themselves. TSA has legalized sexual assault.
If they can go after your tampon I’d rather not fly. Sorry. Figure out another way to pick out terrorists.
The seats are so close I’m afraid you could get pregnant. It’s so different than when I was a kid. You’re shoved in like sardines and the bathrooms are a joke.
TSA = Touch some a$$
You don’t get on until we get off
One of those times FR should have a Like button! I’m too old, sick and tired. I’ve been thinking a lot about the old Maxim, “Fight or Flight”, when one gets in my condition, “Flight” is no longer an option. Mere seconds count for everything!
That is called blogging on a regular basis.
Where's the EMPs? Where is Obama chuckling in South America?
Where is all the other crazy stuff you "predicted"?
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