Originally Posted by myrgirl
No, the detector would alarm in that instance.

But, yeah, speaking as a screener I certainly wouldn't mind an end to the patdown. Patting down has it's time and place but tacked onto the end of a wanding, I wouldn't mind the end of.
Apparently you didn't detect the subtlety in my post. The detector alarms for the wire in the underwire bra. So TSA thinks it need to do grop-a-thon on the unfortunate granny who wears an underwire bra.