Posted on 05/08/2010 4:27:21 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
A Miami Transportation Security Administration screener was arrested this week after allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker in an airport parking lot.
The reason for the assault: police said the victim and other TSA employees had been making fun of the size of the screener's genitals.
The disagreement started several months ago when screener Rolando Negrin, 44, and his co-workers were trained on the TSA's controversial full body image scanners. The body scanners allow TSA staff in a separate room view images of the of airline passengers' full bodies, private parts and all, with the passenger's face blurred.
According to the police report, during the training exercise the machines revealed that Negrin "had a small penis and [his] co-workers made fun of him on a daily basis." After months of ridicule, Negrin told the police that "he could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind." So on Tuesday night, when fellow screen Hugo Osorno, 34, arrived at his car at the end of a shift, Negrin was allegedly waiting for him. Negrin wanted Osorno to let him inside the car to "resolve a problem and finally respect him," according to the police report. When Osorno refused to open the passenger door, Negrin allegedly came around the vehicle and took out his police baton. He then allegedly said in Spanish: "Get on your knees or I will kill you and you better apologize," two other TSA agents told police. "I'm going to blow your head off," one of the officers also allegedly heard Negrin say.
With the police baton, Negrin then
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“It’s funny until you realize how federal workers are wasting our tax dollars. If it was between two friends in their own time, sure it would have been funny.”
I agree - but we can have some fun here. It’s like when we rate guilty or not guilty regarding female high school teachers that do a bit too much teaching.
Let the real world get outraged.
“Ok I’ll bite. Put those two in jail for a year in the same jail cell and let them fight over their sizes.”
Ok, you’re on board. Welcome.
This could be the dumbest story I have ever read! I mean, come on, really?
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