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they can't pat my breasts in airports anymore!
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TSA modifies pat-downs to exclude breasts
Thursday, December 23, 2004 Posted: 11:17 AM EST (1617 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration announced late Wednesday that it is modifying pat-down procedures at airports -- a decision that comes after hundreds of complaints, most of them from women, that the procedure is too intrusive.
Under the new guidelines, screeners will not be able to pat-down a passenger's breast area unless the handheld metal detector goes off or if there is an irregularity in the passenger's clothing outline, said TSA spokesman Dave Steigman.
Steigman said that under the new policy, passengers will have their sides patted down. Once that is done, there will be a limited torso pat-down from front to back, from a line below the chest area to the waist. Screeners will pat the entire back.
He also said people in wheelchairs will not have to get out of their wheelchairs for the pat-downs. The screening will be done while they are seated, using the wand and explosive trace detection machines, he said.
However, he said other passengers who cannot walk through the metal detector, including people with walkers, will have to undergo the full body pat-down.
The new procedures take effect Thursday, Steigman said.
He would not say what prompted the change. He said criticism to the agency of the pat-downs has amounted to a few hundred complaints out of an estimated 50 million passengers who have flown since the procedure was implemented.
The TSA began conducting the full body pat-downs in August after female suicide bombers downed two Russian airliners, killing 89 people.
Many of the complaints about the pat-downs have come from women who said they felt violated by them.
Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a former Republican congresswoman from Idaho, said screeners at the Boise airport refused to reveal the regulations allowing them to pat her down -- angering her so much she drove the more than 300 miles from Boise to Reno, Nevada.
"I was absolutely astounded at the fact that they thought they could violate my Fourth Amendment rights, violate my privacy, violate my body because of some secret law," she said.
although i agree that pat downs are intrusive, i think it is kind of a joke cause you can still hide lots of stuff in the places they arent supposed to touch you that wouldnt get detected by a metal detector. |
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| Radagast |
Now you can stuff your bra with grenades instead of toilet paper.
A er...umm...wooden grenade that is... |
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| Floorfiller |
| women...always complaining. just let me touch your boobs already god. |
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| Gholy Host |
| There goes my dream career. |
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| jonze234 |
| *throws away application for airport security guard |
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| tribu |
I can see the headlines now
"Area security guards resign over fears of terror, lack of ability to touch breasts." |
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| Gordy |
| not like its a big deal any way, chicks allway pat down the girls any way, not doods |
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| igottaknow |
| fighting terrorism is "hard" work. besides security guard is a touchy feely kinda job :crazy: |
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| jdat |
Does that mean I can't fantasize about touching them anymore?
I've always secretly wished :happy2: |
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| Billabong |
| Just soudns stupid, if a female is doing the pat downs, which is the norm then why are they complaining. I would rather have my security and my life than my dignity lost for all of 10 seconds. |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by Billabong
Just soudns stupid, if a female is doing the pat downs, which is the norm then why are they complaining. I would rather have my security and my life than my dignity lost for all of 10 seconds. |
you might have a different opinion if they were squeezing ur nads for only 10 secounds :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
you might have a different opinion if they were squeezing ur nads for only 10 secounds :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
if women dressed in security gaurd outfits wanna free squeeze at the boys...i say let them have it! :gsmile: |
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