I can’t believe I had to make that statement. I thought it was a pain to have to remove your shoes and dump your baby’s bottle to get through the security checkpoint. Now this?
A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. [..]
Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration 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 nipple 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.
She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.
“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. [..]
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.
Okay, this is just stupid. The belly button ring stays, but the nipple piercings have to go? Does anyone feel safer knowing the skies are free of some body piercings? What is the fear? That she’ll rub up against the plane with her chest and scratch the fuselage? Alan Colmes has the pictures of the confiscated hardware. (h/t Tim in Japan)
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It’s a slippery slope from nipple rings to machine-gun jumblies.
Sweet jiminy WTF is going on in this country? Enough with the barrage of bullshit — please!
I bet she had perfume and hair gel, too!
Zippers and buttons of any kind are next! Dangerous as mother’s milk, them!
just wait
mandatory vaccinations will be next
wont that be profitable?
The terrorists have won.
God bless Amerika. I feel sooooo much freer and safer now that TX trollops have to take out their piercings. My guess, and this is only a guess, is that she’s not related to Chimpy at all. And he is doing that “heh heh heh” laugh as he reads this story.
Some of that retarded Texas injustice, like we haven’t had enough of that for 8 lame ass years!
Oh wow, you mean our civil liberties have been infringed upon by this bullshit administration? yawn.
golden joe @ 6:
Earth to Joe, most vacinations are manditory. Oh, and there’s a good reason for that. So your unfortunate children don’t infect my kids with your shit.
Ah, but in a moment of passion, they could be!
Joementum @ 2:
She could have been a fembot!
mezurashiiiken @ 5:
Mothers milk , well it could be pinko or chocolate even , we are ( right your own here ?????????????????????????????????? ) doomed .
It happened in Texas. Why am I not surprised?
write
Ladies and gentlemen, your country has been successfully terrorized.
Texas?
My IQ just went down 10 points!
This is just sheer, unadulterated abuse of power. The example has been set by our supreme leader and trickles its way down.
Washington DC is like that. People break laws all over the place to show their status and position. The concept of civil servant is lost by a growing group.
If the American Empire lasts we’ve lost a complete generation from this example.
<sigh>
I’m not big on self mutilation but nipple rings?
What’s that supposed to prove?
“Nipples Are NOT Lethal Weapons!”
Depends.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8HQJpza5lLA
why do they hate nipples?
What would Jack Bauer do?
QUESTION AUTHORITY
QUESTION AUTHORITY!
In Canada, shortly after 9/11, airport security made the veterans hand over the pins in their poppies. (Yes, those felt ones for Veteran’s Day/Memorial Day). You know, the guys that put their lives on the line for “freedom”.
THANK YOU Nicole!!! Some things just keep staring us in the face. Air America’s Richard Greene recently interviewed the editor of the Progressive Magazine about Directive 51 and the preparations being made in case some official thinks they need to declare martial law. I found it pretty revealing. It’s only 35 minutes..
It’s pretty ironic that American’s are okay with being GOVERNED by tits, but refuse to sit next to them on an airplane.
So Quagmire’s in charge of airport security now?
giggity giggity goo!
Another good reason to never set foot in Texass ever again. If I had my way, Mexico could have it back for about $45 and case of XXs.
And I’d still come out ahead.
What she expect in Lubbock? The screeners say now thats cool now thats one hip chick come right aboard?
It’s intimidation. That’s all. You gotta do what WE say.
What a demented country of cowards we have become. THANKS W MISSION ACCOMPLISHED AGAIN…..
mudshark @ 23:
Shoot her.
And FOXbots would cheer.
That’s funny that John Ashcroft had an aversion to nipples as well when he had those statues covered up. Nipples. The take down of America. Coming to a theatre near you.
Nicole,
That was quick. ;-)
One thing I have learned while living overseas is that most non-Americans (I’m generalizing, but the majority I have talked to), absolutely hate the TSA. Personally, I have never had a pleasant experience with them but from what I’ve been told and read on Japanese blogs, they are pretty strict with any and all non-Americans.
Yep. We’re just spreading the love.
They often think I’m carrying a weapon in my pocket, but I’m not.
Joementum @ 2:
Not wanting to put too fine a point on it, but you’re right.
Reminder, don’t wear your cockring to the airport!
34 Tim in Japan Says:
*===>I wont take a flight through the US. I’d rather pay more and avoid it completely. (Canadian in Korea.)
Bud @ 28:
You can say that again!
Prepare you mentally. Take off your shoes. Accept the police state growing around you. Give up your rights…
“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. ”
- Rudy Giuliani.
TSA had the balls to send CNN a photo of a ’supposed bomb bra’ which showed a bra crudly wired. I laughed so hard I almost peed myself. If it were me, I’d sue the sons of bitches.
bilhelm-hussein-X @ 40:
That again!
Some idiot TSA agent who likes to boss people around did this. They have no requirements and can go WAY beyond the list of verboten items. If these jackasses aren’t reined in, they’ll require that pacemakers be removed. Got a steel plate in your head? What about steel rods to mend broken bones and spinal injuries? Metal fillings in your teeth? Soon they’ll be requiring women to remove their tampons before boarding a plane. I mean, you could pack a hell of a bomb in them.
It’s really time for Congress to stop this ridiculous garbage. Stop making people go through all this “security” hell and waiting in security lines for hours. Just let people get on planes after going through metal detectors, like people must do to enter courthouses and federal buildings, and keep stuff that could be used for a weapon, not toothpaste and face creams. Enough is enough.
I can see this happening in TX, especially in the Houston Airport. They are the most rude, block headed people I have ever had the displeasure to meet….multiple times, but never again.
This shows just how stupid and far this insanity has gone. They confiscated two pocket knives about the size of fingernail clippers from me early on, and six cans of tomato paste a year or two back. I feel soooo much safer flying now. What idiots!!
Well, if you remember the response to Janet Jackson, maybe there’s something about nipples that just freightens some people.
Oh, and there’ always Letha Weapons…
Not lethal?
Well, maybe…But they sure as hell can be dangerous. Just ask my glass eye!
Her breasts could have been packed with explosives and the rings when pulled would trigger her breasts like grenades.
Surprised TSA didn’t say that.
The police state is here- and snickering.
Bud @ 29:
The problem with Texas is that no matter where you go there are Texans.
The State collective IQ will be taking a significant hit in 297 days.
an armed man is a citizen, an un-armed man is a subject!
Yeah, Womens breasts can be used as weapons. Christ, the next thing you know they’ll be telling us the Earth is flat.
Bud @ 29:
I’m living down in Mexico now, and I’ve offered to give them back Texas if they’d take the bush with them. They turn me down every time.
This isn’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. Every airport in the US has screeners. It affects every American. Those that see this situation as confined to Texas aren’t seeing the bigger picture.