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TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast
msnbc.com ^ | Nov. 19, 2010 | Suzanne Choney

Posted on 11/19/2010 6:28:08 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

A longtime Charlotte, N.C., flight attendant and cancer survivor told a local television station that she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down.

Cathy Bossi, who works for U.S. Airways, said she received the pat-down after declining to do the full-body scan because of radiation concerns.

The TSA screener "put her full hand on my breast and said, 'What is this?' " Bossi told the station. "And I said, 'It's my prosthesis because I've had breast cancer.' And she said, 'Well, you'll need to show me that.' "

Bossi said she removed the prosthetic from her bra. She did not take the name of the agent, she said, "because it was just so horrific of an experience, I couldn't believe someone had done that to me. I'm a flight attendant. I was just trying to get to work."

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To: potlatch

;))


21 posted on 11/19/2010 9:17:25 PM PST by Seadog Bytes ("Smart Growth"... isn't.)
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To: potlatch

J N probably doesn’t mind being groped. LOL


22 posted on 11/19/2010 9:50:14 PM PST by JustAmy (Darn Boxer and Reid still here. Continue working to stop the corruption!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So any further complaints about security? Here’s a plan!

I think that I’ll have to buy one of them Lexington Steele black 11 inch reproductions.

I’ll enter the security area, empty my pocket contents, watch, glasses, into the bin.

Then, I’ll reach into my fly, pull out this 11 inch black monster, slap it down onto the tray, and watch the faces as I go through security.

They may want me to go to the body search area, but “my Junk” is happily in view of all to ogle!

Might be a plan!


23 posted on 11/19/2010 9:56:25 PM PST by Noob1999 (Zer0 is an Asshat!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Just imagine for a moment if these new procedures were implemented under President G. W. Bush.

Just think about it for a second. Do you ever hear “Obama Administration” when this topic is discussed?

All this is falling on Big Sis. It's like Obama doesn't exist.

24 posted on 11/19/2010 10:07:37 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: Noob1999
You first brother.

As for me, I'll use a Western Movie analogy, this town ain't big enough for the two of us. LOL

25 posted on 11/19/2010 10:10:21 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: potlatch

Oh, Lordy! From what I’ve seen of her, you were very kind. lol

Seriously, I’m going to NYC in a couple of weeks. Even though they don’t have body scanners and enhanced pat-downs where I will board my plane enroute, they have them now at LaGuardia, where I will be boarding my plane to fly back here.

I’m thinking of declining the body scanner, and making them do the pat-down in full view of everyone who is waiting to go through security so that anyone who might have a camera will record it for posterity.

I’m not down on the TSA union members who are about to get collective bargaining rights so much as I’m down on our own, supposedly, benevolent government...which has turned mighty heavy handed in recent years.

Okay...I’m down on both of them...lol


26 posted on 11/20/2010 12:12:09 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: yorkie

ping


27 posted on 11/20/2010 9:22:50 AM PST by tiapam
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To: potlatch; tiapam

ROTF!!! (I was shocked, I tell ya! I thought I would see a little male plumbing in THAT body scan!)


28 posted on 11/20/2010 9:54:52 AM PST by yorkie (The images from God's Paintbrusth cannot be captured by camera. (Go take it in, before it is gone!))
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To: yorkie

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!...............and MORE hahahahahahahaha! :)


29 posted on 11/20/2010 10:06:40 AM PST by tiapam
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To: potlatch
LOL!
This should be posted at all airports, by the scanning machine, of course! :)

30 posted on 11/20/2010 10:11:06 AM PST by tiapam
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To: SaraJohnson
I go to The Drudge Report quite a few times each day and see all the headlines right there in front of me. Surprise turns to awe, then to disbelief and finally to anger. I think we've been on ‘anger’ so long that we almost become numb, immunized to it.

Makes you wonder how much of anything a person can take before they no longer ‘feel’ it anymore. Perhaps that's the goal?

Reading my books transports me, lol.

31 posted on 11/20/2010 10:54:51 AM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: JustAmy
Probably a rare occurrence in Nappy's life, lol!
32 posted on 11/20/2010 10:56:22 AM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: potlatch
" I think we've been on ‘anger’ so long that we almost become numb, immunized to it."

I agree, Potlatch. I'm not as much on 'anger' now, as I am on "SHOCK"! It has become totally unbelievable to read or hear the news anymore.

(Thank G-d for the cooking channel, Animal Planet and YouTube - where I can watch all the fun skits and movie shorts from years gone by.)

33 posted on 11/20/2010 11:11:53 AM PST by yorkie (The images from God's Paintbrusth cannot be captured by camera. (Go take it in, before it is gone!))
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To: yorkie

Wouldn’t have been surprising, huh? Lol
Good to ‘see’ you yorkie!


34 posted on 11/20/2010 11:12:19 AM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: tiapam

Lol, Pam, if they did that everyone would turn around and leave!! If I disappear you’ll know Nappy saw that....


35 posted on 11/20/2010 11:13:54 AM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: potlatch

YOU........FUNNY!! LOL!


36 posted on 11/20/2010 11:57:17 AM PST by tiapam
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