Update 4/1/08: Here is video with more craptastic information about the lovely TSA and how they are here to help you. Let’s just hope that they get friendlier attitudes along with these new “advancements” in their strip search of your personal space.
I cannot be the only person out there thinking that security at airports is getting beyond ridiculous… can I? I enjoy my freedoms, but I also enjoy my security. When I go to the airport I expect to be safe and comfortable. I would never suspect a woman to rip the jewelry out of her tender nipples in order to hijack the plane and put the people aboard at risk.
I just read about a 37 year old Texas woman named Mandi Hamlin who had to remove her painful piercings after the female employee scanned her chest with the hand metal sensor. I know it is security measures, but they went a little overboard with this. Hamlin offered to expose her piercings after being told to step behind a curtain and remove the piercings or miss her flight.
“Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her,” said Hamlin’s attorney, Gloria Allred, reading from a letter she sent Thursday to the director of the TSA’s Office of Civil Rights and Liberties. Allred is a Los Angeles lawyer who often represents high-profile claims.
She said she heard male TSA agents snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly button ring.
“After nipple rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove,” Allred said in the letter.
Sorry to have ranted on this, but it just peeves me that this happened… I definitely would fight to keep my piercings in, what if you had an even more private piercing like say your clit? or a Prince Albert? Jacob’s Ladder? I really would hate to have to be one of those people who have 12 piercings on a super sensitive area.
This is what I like to see from the TSA:
Tags: jacobs ladder, mandi hamlin, nipple piercing, piercing, prince albert, Travel, tsa
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I agree that the whole ordeal that woman went through was ridiculous but don’t confuse “the airlines” with TSA. They are not synonymous. The TSA agents are just as likely to harass airline employees in full uniform, with credentials displayed as they are regular passengers. The average traveler doesn’t know that kind of crap airline personnel have to put up with from them. I appreciate the good, upstanding TSA employees that are trying to do their job and keep the skies safe but, as in all areas, when you give a little power to some people they abuse it and just go too far.
Yes thank you, I realized that just a bit ago… Thanks for letting me know :)
And yes, I do appreciate the work they do, but they tend to go a little overboard sometimes.
The TSA is not needed. They just are there to provide a false sense of security for all the pussies in this post-911 world.
LOL Love it Suzie. Love it.
I don’t think TSA isn’t needed though, the unnecessary “suspicious person” random searches can go away though… I don’t need everyone seeing my red lacy thong. Completely uncalled for, but I’m fine with the security at the metal detectors, in the words of my cousin, “Frisk Me…”
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You guys are clearly a bunch of idiots. The whole reason TSA exists is to make sure all you whining and complaining jerks are safe. How would you like it if you were 30,000 Feet in the air and some terrorist hijacked the plane? Be grateful and stop complaining.
Joe, most TSA’s are assholes… Hence the story? This lady would not could not hijack a plane with a nipple piercing… You and those TSAssholes need to realize that a piercing isn’t a threat. On top of that Joe, I think you need a lesson about nipples… Go to your woman, if you are even capable of getting one… and pinch her nipples… see how she reacts… times that by probably 100 since its a bar through her nipple, not just a purple nurple. Stop complaining.