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Old Mar 22, 2018, 12:44 pm
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Boggie Dog
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Originally Posted by Blackmagicti
I know this is an old thread, but I need to calm my worried mind. I was a badged employee and got picked for the thigh slide pat down. When the TSO started on one leg, she did it so fast that she scared me when she "met resistance" and I jumped straight up in the air and cried out. Now I am a very jumpy person by nature. Those "cute" little games that kids play with each other where they surprise you or try to scare you, make me scream bloody murder. So the TSO refused to continue the pat down. I kept saying that I didn't want my genitalia touched, so that was taken as a refusal to complete the process, and I was escorted out of the terminal and went home from work. I have also accused of using vulgar language at TSO's for using the word "genitalia."

Seriously, my cute little ankle-biter of a dog will start to bark at something only she can hear and I will scream at the top of my lungs in reaction. My dog looks at me like I'm half crazy. But it really is a manifestation of the intense anxiety I suffer from.

There is a lot more to my story, but I am scared that a fine will be levied against me. Though it would fit the pattern of retaliation I had been receiving for filing a complaint against a TSO when her pat down included her jabbing her fingertips into my vulva. I did this really stupid thing believing everyone around me that were "shocked" that this kind of thing could happen, when in fact, it is completely SOP to touch people's pee-pees and everyone but me knew. I didn't make it 4 months at that job.

FYI, I will be requesting the video for this particular incident.
If a fine is assessed you will have an opportunity for a hearing in front of an Administrative Law Judge. Tell your side of the story or lawyer up and fight to the bitter end. One person that I know who was assessed a fine for having two firearms in his carry on luggage had the fines reduced considerably and he was in fact guilty. I would hope in a case like yours that your explanation would satisfy the issue but you never know.

edit to add: Had time to ferret out the TSA document on fines. Passenger fines are near the end of the document.

https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/fi...nce_policy.pdf

Interference with screening is the only possible claim TSA could make and it sounds like TSA was the uncooperative party.

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