Originally Posted by
spd476
I'm interested in knowing if any anomaly found by the scanner will result in a full patdown. My insulin pump and glucose monitor are going to trigger a yellow square to pop up. All the TSA has been asking me to do is rub my hands over the alarmed areas over my clothes and then they swab my hands. I had to suffer through patdowns for years because my old pump wasn't supposed to go through the scanners. I'm going to be very upset if I have to go back to getting full patdowns, especially if they are even more invasive.
If TSA is being truthful, yes you're going to suffer the full assault. Please file a police report each and every time this happens to you.
Years ago, I was rooting for the TSA to invade train and bus stations on a permanent basis because I believed that doing so would cause a major uproar from people who use those methods of transportation if they had to run the TSA gauntlet every single day.
I am hoping that this new procedure of sexually assaulting every one who opts out or alarms or is selected randomly will have basically the same effect: people will revolt.
I don't see how this is sustainable, in light of the fact that scanners give off false alarms so frequently. Well, either it's not sustainable or people will be hung up waiting for a long, long time to be groped.