Woman forced to remove body piercings in airport

prk543

prk543

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Originally Posted by rudedog40
http:///forum/post/2539868
My understanding is that if you have ANYTHING on you, this machine can see it. Like I said, it's like an X-ray machine. That's what's nice about it. If you don't mind being scanned, you don't have to remove anything out of your pockets, remove your jacket, shoes, anything. However, it will show EVERYTHING.

Originally Posted by alix2.0
http:///forum/post/2539876
sounds unpleasant. especially for girls. itll never fly.
Actually it would work if they separated each line by gender, with the appropriately sexed screener. Also with the current computer technology, why not use something similar to facial recognition software to identify anything that looks like a weapon?
Then it could be an entirely automated process, unless there is a person who requires extra screening.
 
marka1620

marka1620

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TSA.....love them or hate them.
Never had any bad experience with TSA. Last time I did a cross country flight from MA to CA. I put my bag on the conveyor belt. Inside was my laptop and cords for same. It was scanned without a hitch. Half way across the country. Go to pull my computer out and saw that I had my missing pocket knife in the bag. 3.5” blade.
 
rudedog40

rudedog40

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Looks like she got her apology, sort of....
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration said Friday it will change the way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a

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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.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing

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piercings. The agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.
Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked whether she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was out, she said.
Hamlin was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring. She said the officer gave her pliers to remove the ring, a process which caused a lot of physical pain.
The TSA said in a statement on its Web site that the officers properly followed procedures, but that the procedures must change. In the future passengers can either allow a visual inspection of their piercings, or remove them, the agency said.
The statement stopped short of apologizing to Hamlin.
"TSA acknowledges that our procedures caused difficulty for the passenger involved and regrets the situation in which she found herself," the agency said in a statement. "We appreciate her raising awareness on this issue and we are changing the procedures to ensure that this does not happen again."
Hamlin's attorney said she accepted the TSA statement as an apology, and commended the agency for taking quick action.
The policy change is "an achievement for the protection of passengers' civil rights while meeting the security goals of the TSA," Allred said.
And what does Hamlin think?
"She says it's awesome," the attorney said.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Seriously tho, if you were some sort of ninja, you could hide throwing darts in body piercings and use them to take over the plane. The TSA has to cover all their bases.
 
rudedog40

rudedog40

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2543191
Seriously tho, if you were some sort of ninja, you could hide throwing darts in body piercings and use them to take over the plane. The TSA has to cover all their bases.
You've been watching too many James Bonds flicks. You can't be serious. Why not just fill a cold capsule with ricin and open it up on the plane? Look at what happened to Marka1620. He walked through a TSA checkpoint with a knife. Why in the world you want to protect the image of the TSA is beyond me. You work them or something?
 
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