 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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| Female Pass Groped by TSA Gropes Back Charged with Battery I know there have been many an OT thread on the TSA, here's another doozie. Just throwing this out there and I'll hide.
From Wired Threat Level
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An airline passenger in Florida was on her way to Cleveland for her brother’s funeral when she says she was inappropriately groped by a female TSA worker doing a security patdown.
To demonstrate the invasive touching, she groped a female TSA supervisor, for which she was removed from her flight, arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery.
Carol Price, the passenger, is a former TSA agent herself and says she knows the proper way to conduct a patdown, and what she got from a former co-worker at Southwest Florida International Airport wasn’t proper. According to her attorney, the agent conducted an “extremely inappropriate search” by groping Price’s ge*itals and br*asts. [obfuscated for our younger audience]
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| TSA released a statement saying that “violence against our officers who work every day to keep the traveling public safe is unacceptable.” I tend to agree.
Price should not have "[put] down her jacket and carry-on items and [grabbed] a supervisor roughly between her legs to demonstrate the patdown" she endured. She should instead have kept her cool and focused attention on a lawsuit against TSA. Her case is diminished, surely, than it would be otherwise. |
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 BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
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They're neither "officers" nor "officials"... they're hired inspection clerks, in spite of TSA's (and certain politicans') pretensions otherwise. Giving them the term "officers" implies a level of training, professionalism, and accountability they simply do not have. But it does serve to influence and dumb-down the traveling population. Folks need to demand from their Congress critters that they rein in TSA to compel their hired clerks to treat people with a modicum of respect and dignity - something that is sadly lacking at present. While I don't agree with Price's over-reaction, it's increasingly understandable as the TSA's crudeness, double-standards, and arrogance seem to grow daily.
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 Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
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kudos:11 | And they are not keeping ANYONE SAFE either!! The TSA is worthless... Do you know how many terrorists they have found? 0 -- ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! » www.petergreenberg.com/2011/07/1···s-caughtThe TSA is just an excuse to try and treat PPL like garbage and its sad how many let them do this! |
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Re: Female Pass Groped by TSA Gropes Back Charged with Battery said by Frederick :TSA released a statement saying that “violence against our officers who work every day to keep the traveling public safe is unacceptable.” I tend to agree.
Price should not have "[put] down her jacket and carry-on items and [grabbed] a supervisor roughly between her legs to demonstrate the patdown" she endured. She should instead have kept her cool and focused attention on a lawsuit against TSA. Her case is diminished, surely, than it would be otherwise.
I couldn't disagrre more!
The "Terrible Security Agency" is staffed by low and mid-level idiots who lack training and have no respect for the general public. Because of the other idiots in Washington, the TSA has been given far too much power and they often misuse it.
What "I" find unacceptable is their poor training and the false perception by some that anything the TSA does is actually improving security. I myslef would have done more than "grope" any idiot stupid enough to put their hands on me without my permission. |
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 NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
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From some accounts I have read (including the link posted in this thread), this was more of an ongoing animosity between a former TSA employee (who in this instance was going through the inspection line as a passenger) and the TSA personnel at that location than it was an actual incident triggered by an inappropriate grope by a TSA employee (not that such things don't occur on a daily basis).
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 SteveI know your IP addressConsultant
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As much as I want to say "You go, girl!" over this, I cannot.
Many of us hate the TSA, believe they are not making us safer, it's all security theater, etc. but the procedures for patdowns and searches are legal, so even though in the cosmic sense maybe passengers are being subject to assault, in the juridical sense they absolutely are not.
It's legal even if we don't like it, and in this climate one finds out very quickly that a cosmic victory doesn't translate into a legal one, so the main feeling I have is "that was really really dumb".
Steve
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
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All gropings should be conducted in view of video cameras so that they can be posted on youtube. Otherwise all we can do is speculate on such incidents. |
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When people quit flying and the airlines go under, this will all come to an end. Be patient and your frustration will go away along with the TSA. Unless you like being groped, then by all means keep flying. |
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 Name GamePremium
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North Myrtle Beach, SC
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1 edit | Some jump at the chance to be groped..  Too many tribbles in the trousers I think. 
»www.torontosun.com/2012/06/28/sh···-airport |
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 IanPremium
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said by siljaline:"...by groping Price’s ge*itals and br*asts." [obfuscated for our younger audience]
Speaking of inappropriate and unnecessary levels of security... siljaline  , the words "breasts" or "genitals" are not swear words, and our younger or more delicate readers would be unlikely to be protected by an "*" if they were...
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said by inthenameof :When people quit flying and the airlines go under, this will all come to an end. Be patient and your frustration will go away along with the TSA. Unless you like being groped, then by all means keep flying.
No, next they are targeting Amtrak trains for screening.
Soon to be seen at subways too. |
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Some jump at the chance to be groped.. Too many tribbles in the trousers I think.
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 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
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said by PrntRhd:said by inthenameof :When people quit flying and the airlines go under, this will all come to an end. Be patient and your frustration will go away along with the TSA. Unless you like being groped, then by all means keep flying.
No, next they are targeting Amtrak trains for screening. Soon to be seen at subways too. And everywhere like movie theaters, work, etc.!
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