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Continued - only because I can only imagine the grief she gave them :D

The acid-tongued star was trying to fly from Costa Rica to Newark airport in New Jersey. But as she tried to board, the 76-year-old was pulled to one side after a Continental Airlines security agent checked her details.

Her passport reads: “Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers.” Rosenberg was her late husband’s last name.

The fashion-loving Rivers said afterwards: “If I were going to make up an alias, I wouldn’t pick Rosenberg. I’d pick Jolie or Pitt.

“Do terrorists wear Manolo Blahniks? I can tell you Donna Karan does not make anything that hides a bomb.”

She told a US newspaper: “I tried the tears; they didn’t work. I tried reasoning. I couldn’t bribe because I didn’t have any money.

“I said ‘I’m going to have a heart attack over this,’ so the woman called the paramedics.”

She eventually managed to get a flight home the following morning, she says.

A frequent-flier from California with a 14-inch titanium rod implanted in her right hip told The Post yesterday that she routinely sets off metal detectors around the globe — but the ones at JFK’s Terminal 7 don’t make a beep.

Berna Keiler, 62, a footwear executive from Santa Barbara, saw the potential for disaster when the machines she passed through in the terminal — which handles eight airlines, including British Airways — failed to go off twice last year.

“I think people are in danger,” Keiler said.
BONE TO PICK: Berna Keiler says the titanium rod in her hip has set off alarms at every airport she’s been to — except JFK, where she passed through this metal detector without a beep.

“It shows me that we in the country are living with the idea that we’re taking the appropriate security measures and that, in reality, they’re not working.”

Officials at the Transportation Security Administration insisted the machines had been tested and passed.

But they wouldn’t say whether they were tested specifically for their ability to detect titanium, which is one of the lightest and strongest metals in the world.

“TSA does not discuss how our machines are tested,” spokeswoman Ann Davis said.

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Even worse, Keiler said, both times she told guards the alarm didn’t go off, they failed to follow up by scanning her with a wand or other device to determine whether she was carrying a weapon.