Posted on 11/17/2010 3:43:35 PM PST by jessduntno
I am a Usairways pilot with hip replacements. I am unable to successfully pass through a metal detector. For approx. 5 years I have been questioned, wanded and patted down every morning each day I report for work. Ive asked for help with a solution, I’ve been through all the company and union channels to no avail. Approx. 1 year ago, I encountered something new called a groin check. This is where they run the back of their hands down your fly from top to bottom 1 inch to eother side. I said I would allow this if they dont touch my stuff. The screener accused me of being a “homophobe” and said he cant guarantee he wont touch me in this area. I said then I can’t go through the check. I called the airline for direction and they agreed to assist me in finding a solution if I would JUST take the flight out. I allowed him his groin check and was so humiliated and enraged that I was pretty much useless in the cockpit, I was self absorbed. Fortunately my Captain could see this and just picked up my duties also and never said a word. I called the union about this and they informed me that I NEVER have to let someone touch me there, that that is wrong. They also reminded me of my obligation to remain fit for duty in our flight ops manual as well as federal aviation regulations and should I find myself in a similar situation again, dont fly. Well, I noticed that this groin check kept popping up more and more often until I forced myself to accept it and block it out. [i.e. go to work on the flight deck of an airplane full of passengers -ed.]
(Excerpt) Read more at fedupflyers.org ...
“Oh mercy, can’t someone help that poor man?”
They said you was hung! And they was RIGHT!
(Where the white women at?)
Sounds like someone in the administration wants Americans to suffer payback for Abu Ghraib.
It’s not a phobia, it’s an actual disgust of a serious perversion that is eating at the core of decent society like a maggot.
For the screeners to be able to detect explosives, that means that they must know what a normal groin area feels like. I wonder what it says on the job application:
“Have you felt (your sex) groin areas before? Do you know what a normal (your sex) groin area feels like?”
That kinda excludes the vast majority of people, and opens the job to a small segment of the population, say about 1%.
Or maybe there is on the job training with (same sex) anatomically correct crash dummies.
Madness.
There’s a simple solution to this.
Just make it an option for the man being searched to select a very attractive female to do the pat down!
It would help the economy also. Guys would be flying all over the place.
I agree. I have had cancer. No one on either side of my family has ever had cancer that we can find. When I was a baby; I had radiation to remove a birthmark. This could have been the reason why.
This is what happens when we let idiots control our government.
Simply go to local Law Enforcement and file a formal sexual assualt complaint everytime this happens. Once TSA agents are constantly under investigation/possible arrest and prosecution under local and state law; who’ll want to work for TSA?
I think I will just start laughing and when they ask, “What’s so funny?”, I’ll just say, “I’m just thinking of the laughs I’ll get when I tell the guys how easy it is to get TSA agents to play with my junk.”
TSA: Are you calling me a homosexual.
Passenger: No, but I’m not the one with my junk in his hands. By the way, am I supposed to leave a tip?
They cannot humiliate you if you humiliate them first.
ML/NJ
The guy who said, "I allowed him his groin check" should get a medal?
Save some medals for the guys who get arrested or lose their jobs for resisting.
I imagine any sort of refusal or remark will put you on the “No Fly List”
If Conservatives had first instituted this policy the Leftists, Big Media, NPR and the Newspapers would be screaming bloody murder.
http://www.zug.com/live?func=view_thread&thread_id=68619
Shakes on a Plane
(excerpt)
“My question was this: are the security checks really any more effective? To find out, I decided to re-enact the classic scene from the 1984 movie This is Spinal Tap, where bassist Derek Smalls puts a foil-lined cucumber down his pants, which is picked up by the security wand. Only I decided to go one better, by putting a buzzing vibrator down my pants.”
“You know I was sweating cheeseburgers as I waited for the guy to return. We stood there awkwardly, while my crotch hummed a one-note tune. It was a muffled drone, like someone using a weed wacker in a neighboring township.”
http://www.zug.com/live/74827/Undressing-at-Airport-Security.html
Salad Dressing In The Pants
“Calmly, I reached down into that unstable barrel of atomic liquid and grabbed my salad dressing. Then I calmly boarded the moving walkway, and stuffed the salad dressing down my pants. The TSA lets you keep things there, apparently.”
We are way over the edge now...
Yeah, I have an artificial knee. I get pulled over all the time and meanwhile watch others walk past that didn’t even take off a belt ... but they didn’t buzz the scanner. So they walk on by and I get a full body pat. With the scanners they’ll be able to easily see the knee (hell, its solid steel!) so they would know what it was, pull me aside and wand me (yep, its an artificial knee). Then pat down the REST of me that didn’t show or wand a problem. It just isn’t right.
Can anyone explain why a pilot would need anything other than an identity check?
After all, being a racist may be vile but it's not illegal. That should start some really fun stuff (works especially well in "redneck" states")
OK, sarcasm tag attached to avoid Viking Kitty attack.
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