Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
I'm no TSA apologist, but to clear up any anatomical misperceptions, she didn't touch your
vagina, which is an internal organ. She did touch your genitals (or, more specifically, your labia) through your clothing.
Yeah, I know. I was in shorthand mode. Thanks for the reminder, though.
Got the same shocked and appalled look (and response) from the woman at DCA this morning.
There MUST be a way to challenge this -- OSHA, EPA, GAO, DOJ, DHS IG as a minimum. Anybody have any ideas???
Beats me. But where did they all go? I just flew home from DCA today, at a NoS-only checkpoint (mags roped off in Terminal B around 10:00 am). I opted out, went through the patdown, and no CastScope. I would have thought that if any place had them, it would be there. Well anyway, I'm not complaining.
(Although the sequence of events today was rather odd (and rude): I unload all my crap into the bins and whatnot, shove it through, step towards the mag, am directed to the NoS, at which point I tell them that I'm opting out. They tell me where to go stand (landside), and I tell them that I can't see my stuff over there. They basically tell me that's too bad, because, "you shouldn't have put your bins into the xray if you weren't ready to walk through". Then we had to stop the xray and redo my stuff because apparently my coat and liquids (now in a ziploc) in the same bin as my computer is a giant NO-NO (at least there, I did it that way in MSP and no one seemed to care). I did ask the woman doing my patdown if she wanted to wear a dosimeter so she would know how much radiation she was exposed to and she stared at me blankly for a moment and then carried on with her spiel as though I hadn't said a word.)
Back home safe and sound, I suppose. I hate this.