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TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine - Travel - News - msnbc.com
A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich.
Sawyer is a bladder cancer survivor who now wears a urostomy bag, which collects his urine from a stoma, or opening in his stomach. “I have to wear special clothes and in order to mount the bag I have to seal a wafer to my stomach and then attach the bag. If the seal is broken, urine can leak all over my body and clothes.”
On Nov. 7, Sawyer said he went through the security scanner at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “Evidently the scanner picked up on my urostomy bag, because I was chosen for a pat-down procedure.”
Due to his medical condition, Sawyer asked to be screened in private. “One officer looked at another, rolled his eyes and said that they really didn’t have any place to take me,” said Sawyer. “After I said again that I’d like privacy, they took me to an office.”
Sawyer wears pants two sizes too large in order to accommodate the medical equipment he wears. He’d taken off his belt to go through the scanner and once in the office with security personnel, his pants fell down around his ankles. “I had to ask twice if it was OK to pull up my shorts,” said Sawyer, “And every time I tried to tell them about my medical condition, they said they didn’t need to know about that.”
Unless we fight back.We have lost both our freedom and our security.
Unless we fight back.
I suggest you carry a gun to when you next try to board an airplane as means to fight back
And this is useful, how?
As long as we're getting that silly here -- a friend of mine has suggested that, since there is such a small probability of finding oneself on a plane with more than one bomb aboard, he will henceforth carry his own bomb when he flies. Problem solved. :mrgreen:I suggest you carry a gun to when you next try to board an airplane as means to fight back
As long as we're getting that silly here -- a friend of mine has suggested that, since there is such a small probability of finding oneself on a plane with more than one bomb aboard, he will henceforth carry his own bomb when he flies. Problem solved. :mrgreen:
Perfect idea, fight fire with fire
If the other person threatens to blow the plane up, do it first, prevent them from accomplishing their goal
And if everyone brought a handgun or bomb with them when going to fly the TSA would be overwhelmed, and no one would be able to fly. Causing the airllines to seek a change in the rules
well I guess that means he has the right to be pissed off!
Urine deep trouble for that pun, mister!
I don't scare easy-I'm not yellow!
Unless we fight back.
Note what we don't hear about these horrible stories "Tsa agent was disciplined" or "tsa agent was suspended" or "TSA agent was fired"
Maybe because those stories exist?
Wolanyk was arrested for refusing to complete the security process and for recording the incident on his iPhone, according to his attorney.
Source: Passenger Chooses Strip-Down Over Pat-Down | NBC San Diego
Passenger Chooses Strip-Down Over Pat-Down | NBC San Diego
The revolt has started. As people fly less and less, things will change.
This is not my America.
As best I can tell, hyperbolic over exaggeration is indeed your America.
:coffeepap
HA. Americans are passive. You attack the government most will be sympathetic to the government. So yeah fighting back will do nothing but reduce our freedom even more. So please do not fight back, but bend over and this will be over all quickly.
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