Friday, March 28, 2008
The nipple ring hazard
This strikes me as something less than the TSA's finest hour:
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'm going to go out on a limb and say that no matter how crafty those jihadis get, they are unlikely to do a lot of damage with weapons disguised as nipple rings.
But who knows? I, along with Captain Ed, could be wrong.
6 Comments:
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To those of you who are unconcerned about nipple violence, I have one word:
Fembots
By Cassandra, at Fri Mar 28, 02:24:00 PM:
Good nightshirt. I agree that this wasn't necessary but haven't these people ever seen the ones that don't require you to get your body perforated?
Sheesh.
By joated, at Fri Mar 28, 02:24:00 PM:
Did they think the thing was like the pin on a grenade or something?
What's next? If they detect someone wearing a ring on their clitoris will they have them remove that too?
And from the phot I can see she fit the profile for a terror suspect. /snark
By Georg Felis, at Fri Mar 28, 02:35:00 PM:
What, no photos TH? How are we right-wing neocons supposed to get thru this kind of story without photos?
Or at least a caption contest. I vote for "Saddam's Baby Milk Factory Found To Be Secret WMD Site" :)
Gloria Allred just seems to have a market niche for these offbeat civil rights stories. She's my hero.
By GreenmanTim, at Fri Mar 28, 10:20:00 PM:
Good thing she had her pliers. Or does the TSA keep them on hand for just these sort of counter terror contingencies?