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Old Jul 20, 2007, 8:46 am
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me4yankees
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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I arrived for my flight at TRI (a small regional airport serving Tri-Cities area, TN/VA). I have been flying frequently for 10 years and most employees know me. As usual I did not check luggage and checked in at the kiosk. My boarding pass did not indicate additional security screening. It has been YEARS since I had a TSA search. However, it was my lucky day. I was called over for what I thought was the screening I remembered having before.

The girl said she was going to use the wand and whenever it went off, she was going to touch that spot. I have had this done before, but not to this degree. What was different was that if she wanded the same spot more than once, she rubbed it again. She even asked to slide her fingers in behind the metal button of my jeans. The good news is that she did not run her hand down my metal zipper.

Then she indicated to me that she was going to do a more thorough search and would I like to go behind the curtain for that? I was thinking I did not want to be alone with her behind the curtain, that I wanted this to be public. So she proceeded to run both hands tightly down my arms, legs, and torso.

And to top it off, she did not hand-search my carry-on or purse. If I had to be searched that much, doesn't someone think she should have searched my bags, too?
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