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LOS ANGELES 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.
"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."
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 women 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342329,00.html
Does the same thing happen to males if they have a penis piercing? Just wondering as this is the first I have ever heard of such a thing. It almost sounds like they were singling her out.
its not like she was chased down by dobermans and dragged through the boarding line. I'd say that she should have been aware of the boarding requirements before trying to pass through a metal detector with body jewelry on.
a woman having to show her pierced nipples to another female agent rather than being told to find another plane to ride? Gosh, the TRAVESTY!
These fucks should get fired. The woman offered to suffer the indignity of showing her breasts to the female agent. That should have been sufficient. Also, if the fuckers were unprofessional enough to be heard snickering, then they should be blacklisted from future employment in this line of work all together.
You can thank the PC police for this one. Because of outrage over profiling, these workers aren't given much latitude to use discretionary judgement. This is an example of what can happen when they simply follow the rules like robots. You can't have it both ways.
ha ha ha!
Tell me though, why would you profile for body piercings?
No, you misunderstood me, but I'm not surprised.
Why would a body piercing trigger this kind of reaction? If one was profiling for terrorists, I find it hard to believe that a nipple ring would be an indicator of a terrorist plot.
Thank goodness they made her remove them. Saves the rest of us from having to notice them on the flight.
Blech. I have a hard time believing someone who has nipple rings is all that modest.
Generally women with pierced nipples tell you within 10 minutes of meeting them that their nipples are pierced, and even if they don't, they're generally obvious.
Attracting attention to one's ears and claiming to be reluctant to remove your shirt is one thing. Attracting attention to one's nipples, and claiming you don't want people to see them is another.
