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  • LA lawyer claims woman forced to remove nipple rings at airport

    03/27/2008 1:43:06 PM PDT · by SmithL · 35 replies · 849+ views
    An attorney claims security agents gave a woman a pair of pliers and forced her to remove her nipple rings in order to board an airline flight. Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred issued a press statement Thursday making the allegation but she didn't provide details. A news conference was scheduled. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird said he had not heard of the incident. Baird said the TSA has no specific policy about body jewelry but if it was big enough to sound an alarm, . . .
  • TSA Responds to Nipple Ring Complaint

    03/29/2008 10:50:51 AM PDT · by SmithL · 39 replies · 1,353+ views
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane. Mandi Hamlin, 37, had demanded an apology and her Los Angeles-based attorney sent a letter to the TSA this week requesting a civil rights investigation. Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a TSA agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems....