Originally Posted by
eyecue
IF you wear a bra, and most women do then you can thank those lovely people that test us EVERYDAY with small items in the bra. An officer has to press hard on that area in order to detect those items. IF they miss it then they get the bad thing on their record. Granted if TSA could use another method to check that area then we would not have to press that hard. But when we are searching for something that can be 1/2 inch long and 3/16 inch wide a lot of pressure has to be placed on the area.
A tumour can and usually is smaller than that size, yet can be detected without causing bruising.
Your medical examples are not valid because TSOs do not have the same level of training as a physician, or those in EMS.
It is clear that they are not concerned with causing no harm or injury to their customers because quite often we see that they do just that.