The war against Bra Terror marches on. We're putting you on notice Al Quaida! If any sneaky terrorists try to pass security wearing a nipple ring or an underwire bra, the alert agents at TSA will pounce on them! If they appeal to them they will be fondled and groped!
Mandi Hamlin is no stranger to the weird ways of the TSA. Earlier this year she was forced to remove her nipple rings prior to boarding a flight. It was not only humiliating, but unnecessary. A visual inspection had already OK'ed her navel ring. Heaven knows what she could have been hiding in those nipple rings!
Tuesday, another woman stood alone against the tyranny which is the Transportation Security Agency.
(motto: We get paid by the hour, and we aren't going anywhere, why should you?)
Nancy Kates allegedly of Berkeley, arrived at Oakland International Airport in plenty of time to board her plane. Why the problems when the alarm sounded as she passed through the metal detector? She claimed it was her underwire bra - a likely story. A female TSA agent waved a wand over Kates, then she
got rather familiar. In Kate's own words, "The woman touched my breast. I said, 'You can't do
that.' She said, 'We have to pat you down.' I said, 'You can't treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra.'
They tried to humiliate me and I was not going to be humiliated over this. If I was carrying nail clippers and forgot about them, I wouldn't have gotten so upset. But here I was just wearing my underwear."
In an effort to get on her flight, she simply removed her bra. This didn't satisfy agents.
They then undertook a painstaking search of her luggage, rummaging for 40 minutes, causing her to miss her flight, expose the rest of her underwear to the perusal of one and all, and eventually arrive four hours late.
In closing, we have a comment and justification by the ever-keen TSA agent spokesman, whom if I'm not incorrect hasn't caught a bad guy yet. If I recall, not one of the Twin Towers terrorists, who flew in and out of the country many times sported a bra or a nipple ring.
TSA spokesman Nico Melendez said Monday that "We have to resolve an alarm. Unfortunately, we can't take a passenger's word for it." Maybe I'm missing something. Didn't it "resolve the
alarm" when it was proven the culprit was the bra? Was the 40 minute luggage fling a good way to break up the day while potentially real terrorists walked by?
Flying? Don't Wear Underwire Bra, Unless You Too Want To Be Groped And Delayed By TSA
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