Two for one deal from TSA, go thru the xray machine then get groped too but, wait! There's more!

[CreekDog]

In early August Bossie was walking through security when she says she was asked to go through the new full body-scanners at Concourse "D" at Charlotte Douglas International.

She reluctantly agreed. As a 3-year breast cancer survivor she says she didn't want the added radiation through her body. But, Bossi says she did agree.

(then after...)

She says two female Charlotte T.S.A. agents took her to a private room and began what she calls an aggressive pat down. She says they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast… the one where she'd had surgery.

...

"She put her full hand on my breast and said, 'What is this?'. And I said, 'It's my prosthesis because I've had breast cancer.' And she said, 'Well, you'll need to show me that'."

Cathy was asked to show her prosthetic breast, removing it from her bra.

"There are blowers and there are dogs out there that can sniff out bombs," she says. "There's no reason to have somebody's hands touching your body parts."

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13534628

(she's also a flight attendant...if they were that suspicious of her, why let her fly at all?)

TSA --protecting you from bomb wielding prosthetic wearers since 2001! :eyes:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is just sick.

And if it isn't illegal, it certainly should be.

ICK.

Recommended.

[cascadiance]

2. I wonder if strippers will now complain that they should be allowed to "fondle" others...

If this sort of "searching" is being done so haphazardly and so aggressively now in airports, it would seem that it would be just a matter of time before some dancer who gets in trouble and is in court for "inappropriate contact" between her/him and a client uses as a defense that she/he should be able to engage in such actions when it is a consensual act, and the one in an airport isn't even consensual and takes more liberties than many laws allow strippers to engage in.

Not arguing for or against that happening, but it would seem that this crap they're doing in the airport could open up other cans of worms like that too.

[MadHound]

3. There are a lot of people out there who are concerned about their radiation exposure

I'm one of them. I worked in a nuclear plant for a number of years, and while I was never overdosed(at least according to the legal limits) I do know that I took some heavy dosage over the years and have successfully limited my exposure since then.

I also have worked with similar backscatter devices designed to detect explosives and such in packages, and I know that they put out a heavy dose of radiation. While I'm sure they modified the dosage for the machines they use on humans, I'm very skeptical of their claims that "it's no more extra radiation than you would receive for an extra two minutes in the air." That's crap, looking at the detailing on the images I can tell you it's crap.

Oh, and as far as not saving being able to save images, that's horseshit as well. Each of those machines has a computer on board, with a hard drive, not to mention convenient USB and other ports that one can plug in data storage devices.

I will not go through those machines, I value my health. Nor will I subject myself to the indignity of sexual assault to fly. I guess the airlines are losing my money. Sure, I'll spend extra time traveling, but frankly it is time well spent as far as I'm concerned. You simply can't appreciate the beauty, the grandeur of our country from the air as you can from the ground.

[CreekDog]

4. thanks for sharing that info

pretty insightful.