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Thank you for catching that. I must have read it too quick. Found the original article I first read.
Circuit court....turned into supreme court by me being too quick (and careless).
And I also should have posted a link to that article and my faux pas would have been caught earlier.
It's also my understanding that the July ruling has since been vacated and that the case is in the process of being reheard.
Not a fan of TSA myself. Never really had a problem, but there are a couple of them at the Ketchikan airport who are a bit too self-important.
Sympathy ploy. "Grandma" sounds much worse than a childless woman of the same age.
She can't be that old if she was wearing a "feminine hygiene product", unless she means for incontinence.
My wife is 58 and wears a pad because she still has secretions from time to time. My mother wore a pad after she had a hysterectomy for the same reason.
Not all terrorists look like terrorists (whatever that means). Google Daniel Patrick Boyd. A good ole' North Carolina boy who also happened to be a Muslim jihadist.
I absolutely understand this, and I am the first to complain about "racial profiling" or "religious profiling" or whatever ... but still.
As part of our class on immigration, I took my honors students (college students) to the UK on May 12th. Just before we entered the security area at Logan Airport, I said, "OK, prepare to get groped." A couple of my students looked horrified that I had said such a thing, but I wasn't being funny or facetious -- I was simply acknowledging that EVERY TIME I go through airport screening, I am "selected" for the lovely hand-groping. I suspect it is because I have "overly" fat thighs, which I have had since I was a teenager many many decades ago (comes from being female, you know, with some muscle being added after 20-something years of running), but still, it's annoying as he** ... because, come on, I'm a 60-year-old college professor who grew up in the U.S. military, for crap's sake. I am about the least likely "terrorist" you can imagine.
Oh, but that doesn't matter, does it ... because maybe there are other 60-year-old college professor terrorists who grew up in the military and then, what, decided they hate their country and want to blow up a bunch of innocent flyers one day? I mean, seriously?
I feel bad for the woman; however, the possibility of being searched when we fly is today's reality, and she would have as much of a chance of winning a lawsuit against TSA as finding s**t under a rocking horse.
Personally, if TSA wants to do a search on me, I say, bring it on. But they'll only look once...
I feel bad for the woman; however, the possibility of being searched when we fly is today's reality, and she would have as much of a chance of winning a lawsuit against TSA as finding s**t under a rocking horse.
Except that she says she was STRIP SEARCHED. As annoyed as I am every time I am groped by some TSA person (as related in my post right above yours), I at least have never been STRIP SEARCHED -- which even TSA says they DO NOT DO.
THAT is the difference in this woman's lawsuit. (Whether you believe her or not is a different thing ... I tend to believe her.)
My wife is 58 and wears a pad because she still has secretions from time to time. My mother wore a pad after she had a hysterectomy for the same reason.
Good point. Yes, I took it to mean something related to menstruation.
But it turns out she is 51, and I still had not reached menopause at that age.
Also so what if she's a grandma? That's irrelevant to the story.
There's a woman in my neighborhood who became a grandmother at age 33. She looked so young at that time, she still had to show ID to buy alcohol. She and her 30 year-old daughter and 14 year-old granddaughter sometimes get mistaken for all being sisters.
These types of searches would have never started in a country that hadn't lost its way a long time ago.
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