Woman in underwear airport search, NSFW
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To be honest I'm not sure if the should be in N,P&E, Travel or the Lounge but it's here as the main thrust of the story centres on intensive airport searches here goes.
From the Telegraph.
From the Telegraph.
Daily Telegraph said:
Wheelchair-bound woman in underwear gets hour-long security search
A woman in a wheelchair arrived at an airport wearing only her underwear to avoid an "enhanced" pat down, only to be subjected to an hour-long security search after traces of nitrate were found on her body.
Tammy Banovac, 52, said she decided to travel wearing only knickers and a bra after undergoing a search two weeks earlier.
Referring to the earlier search, she told The Oklahoman newspaper: "If it happened anywhere else, it would have been sexual assault."
When she turned up at Oklahoma City airport hoping to be processed quickly she was once again given an extra search, which caused her to miss her flight to Phoenix.
A video of the incident, showing the wheelchair-bound passenger in her black underwear and carrying her pet lapdog, was filmed by another passenger and posted on YouTube.
Officials said she was given the "enhanced" search this time because traces of nitrates, which can be used in explosives, were found on her body.
Nitrates are also found in medications and could also have come from a recent hunting trip she went on.
The Transportation Security Administration has faced a growing outcry over new security measures at US airports, with many travellers complaining they are invasive and humiliating.
In the latest case an Oklahoma City Airport spokesman said the TSA acted appropriately and "did everything they should have done."
A woman in a wheelchair arrived at an airport wearing only her underwear to avoid an "enhanced" pat down, only to be subjected to an hour-long security search after traces of nitrate were found on her body.
Tammy Banovac, 52, said she decided to travel wearing only knickers and a bra after undergoing a search two weeks earlier.
Referring to the earlier search, she told The Oklahoman newspaper: "If it happened anywhere else, it would have been sexual assault."
When she turned up at Oklahoma City airport hoping to be processed quickly she was once again given an extra search, which caused her to miss her flight to Phoenix.
A video of the incident, showing the wheelchair-bound passenger in her black underwear and carrying her pet lapdog, was filmed by another passenger and posted on YouTube.
Officials said she was given the "enhanced" search this time because traces of nitrates, which can be used in explosives, were found on her body.
Nitrates are also found in medications and could also have come from a recent hunting trip she went on.
The Transportation Security Administration has faced a growing outcry over new security measures at US airports, with many travellers complaining they are invasive and humiliating.
In the latest case an Oklahoma City Airport spokesman said the TSA acted appropriately and "did everything they should have done."
Mail has video for those of you who want to be creeped out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334937/Ta...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334937/Ta...
Took me ages to realise that was an actual photo of her, I thought it was a shop dummy!
thinfourth2 said:
zcacogp said:
"If it wasn't at an airport it would be classed as sexual assault" - spot on, lady. Is this really where "security" has got us?
Oli.
We can't let the terrorists win !!!!Oli.
oh they have
el stovey said:
thinfourth2 said:
zcacogp said:
"If it wasn't at an airport it would be classed as sexual assault" - spot on, lady. Is this really where "security" has got us?
Oli.
We can't let the terrorists win !!!!Oli.
oh they have
This makes no sense to me. The lady obviously has a mobility problem to be in a wheelchair. Is this a temporary injury or a permanent condition?
If it is a permanent condition, as a layman I would be more concerned with her apparent tip top physical appearance. It must be very difficult for a 52 year old person with a permanent mobility restriction to keep in such good shape. Many fully mobile women of her age would kill for a shape like that.
And most women left to sit half naked in a public place on their own as others filed past would be creating havoc with whoever put them there. Surely this would be done in a side room.
I can't help but think this is bulls
t.
Edit - Ah, she showed up like that... attention we.
If it is a permanent condition, as a layman I would be more concerned with her apparent tip top physical appearance. It must be very difficult for a 52 year old person with a permanent mobility restriction to keep in such good shape. Many fully mobile women of her age would kill for a shape like that.
And most women left to sit half naked in a public place on their own as others filed past would be creating havoc with whoever put them there. Surely this would be done in a side room.
I can't help but think this is bulls
t.Edit - Ah, she showed up like that... attention w
e.Edited by SeeFive on Friday 3rd December 12:50
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