Originally Posted by
StevenSeagalFan
If the TSA were to "pat down" someone outside of an airport it would be classified as a sexual assault. I don't get why they away with it in an airport.
And in a past circumstance when a passenger going through security 'demonstrated' the grope they received by doing it back to the TSA employee, they were arrested for assault. Oh the pathetic irony.
The OP and his wife certainly have my sympathies, and it is yet another example that going through the body scanners DOES NOT guarantee that you won't receive a patdown at the hands of the TSA. I've had this talk with so many people who end up saying they'd just go through a body scanner because they wanted avoid being felt up. But guess what, that is no guarantee. These faulty machines can show god knows what as an 'anomally' and force a secondary search. Far too many people think that they are actually safe by going through the body scanners.