Originally Posted by
Wimpie
One of the comments from that site:
Originally Posted by dcta August 23, 2010 at 5:30 pm
... my husband has an implant – a defibrillator and so he can not/should not go through the scanners. At DCA he had the back of the hand pat down ... but at Ft. Lauderdale, they put him between two free standing “walls” that we took to be a body scanner and had him position himself as we’re supposed to for that and then did a pat down ...
Now wait just a d@mn minute! Despite a medical condition that could have been affected by the backscatter nude-o-scope, they made him stand in the machine and "assume the position" while they did the patdown?!?! What is the point of that? Did they do the nude-o-scope scan anyway (practicing medicine without a license again?) or were they hoping other passengers wouldn't notice an "opt out"?
More evidence of TSA treating passengers with contempt.
