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95-year-old Air Force vet loses $300 during TSA pat-down
MSN.com ^
| 4/19/2012
Posted on 04/20/2012 12:20:04 AM PDT by South40
Omer Petti, a 95-year-old retired Air Force major, said he expected to set off metal detectors at San Diego International Airport. He and his 85-year-old travel companion have two replaced knees, a replaced hip and a pair of wheelchairs between them. What they didn't anticipate was being subjected to full-on "humiliating" TSA private-room pat-downs.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: tsa; tsapervs
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posted on
04/20/2012 12:20:07 AM PDT
by
South40
To: South40
Why is the TSA always harassing the elderly. It’s really awful, I see it all the time. They should claa action sue , it’s such a disgrace.
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posted on
04/20/2012 12:22:48 AM PDT
by
GreatRoad
(O < 0)
To: GreatRoad
When we win against political correctness and tolerance , the TSA will be one of the first organizations to go.
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posted on
04/20/2012 12:27:42 AM PDT
by
IamCenny
To: South40
Remember, they are too big to fit in the isles.
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posted on
04/20/2012 12:30:07 AM PDT
by
Domangart
To: GreatRoad
My neice who is in her late 50's had a breast prothesis and they make her take it out without doing it in a private room...She will never fly again. Lives in Maryland and the last time she came up for a visit last year, she drove...said she would never fly again..
She was so pissed off she wanted to throw it in the scums face, but didn't want to take a chance of busting it open...I don't know the race of the molester, but most are black that I see...disgusting people....
To: goat granny
Hi GG! Good to see you again! :-)
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posted on
04/20/2012 12:31:58 AM PDT
by
South40
(Mitt is full of Shtt)
To: South40
Thanks, so far i am still breathing in and out...:O)
To: IamCenny
the TSA will be one of the first organizations to go Not if "Republicans" like John Mica, the man who brought TSA into being, have anything to say about it
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:06:34 AM PDT
by
Regulator
To: South40
Having been through this many times I have to wonder why they were surprised. I have a steel knee and get molested every time I fly. If you raise hell about having someones hands in your crouch every time you fly they will put you on a no fly list. I'm still looking for the lawyer who wants to take this one to court. People with knee replacements are considered disabled in many cases. So people with this specific disability will always be treated differently and be isolated and molested every time they board an aircraft.
There has to be a different way.
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:16:42 AM PDT
by
oldenuff2no
(Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
To: South40
To: GreatRoad
The Obamanites want to demoralize and defile the American People..
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:30:49 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: goat granny
Minions of the 0bamanation...Affirmative action..
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:32:19 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: goat granny
Minions of the 0bamanation...Affirmative action..
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:32:26 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: GreatRoad
It might and I mean MIGHT be possible to sue a specific agent or agents for purposeful misconduct or illegal activity.
Hell will freeze over though before a blackrobed pirate allows a class action suit of any kind to see the light of day.
The TSA isn’t about safety, they are about control. Those who hold the choke chains of these federal thugs.....from the TSA to BATFEces on over to the FDA milk police will not give up any control and won’t relinquish power or position voluntarily.
This ends one of two ways, complete enslavement of America or the streets running red with blood as we take back the country from the marxist usurpers by force. They won’t go quietly or peacefully.
To: South40
According to a related story I found, the TSA claimed to have found traces of nitrates on Petti’s clothes after the metal detectors went off, and that’s the reason they hauled him and his girlfriend off to the private rooms.
Of course, the fact that Petti keeps *nitroglycerin tablets* in his shirt pocket for his heart condition *couldn’t* have ANYTHING to do with that, obviously /eyeroll and mega-sarc.
Bet the old-timer never gets his 300 dollars back, either.
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:42:06 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: Regulator
He’ll go too, once term limits and low reimbursement for serving congress are imposed.
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posted on
04/20/2012 1:52:57 AM PDT
by
IamCenny
To: South40
Its nice of the TSA to get all the pickpockets off the street.
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posted on
04/20/2012 2:09:04 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: South40
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posted on
04/20/2012 3:30:23 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
To: IamCenny
RE: the TSA
"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes."--- Douglas Adams"
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posted on
04/20/2012 3:34:54 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: South40
TSA should be defunded and permanently shut down. Leave airport security to individual local airport authorities. TSA are a dangerous joke!
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posted on
04/20/2012 4:00:24 AM PDT
by
dinodino
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