Posted on 02/14/2012 11:13:31 AM PST by rawhide
A Dallas woman says TSA agents repeatedly asked her to step back into a body scanning machine at DFW International Airport. “I feel like I was totally exposed,” said Ellen Terrell, who is a wife and mother. “They wanted a nice good look.”
When Ellen Terrell and her husband, Charlie, flew out of DFW Airport several months ago, Terrell says she was surprised by a question a female TSA agent asked her. “She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’ She said, ‘You just have such a cute figure.’”
Terrell says she walked into the body scanner which creates an image that a TSA agent in another room reviews. Terrell says she tried to leave, but the female agent stopped her. “She says, ‘Wait, we didn’t get it,’” recalls Terrell, who claims the TSA agent sent her back a second time and even a third. But that wasn’t good enough.
After the third time, Terrell says even the agent seemed frustrated with her co-workers in the other room. “She’s talking into her microphone and she says, ‘Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go. Come on out.’”
Ellen and Charlie Terrell are convinced that the extra screenings were unnecessary, possibly even voyeuristic.
(Excerpt) Read more at dfw.cbslocal.com ...
Fired? Probably promoted for diligence.
Federal employees don’t ever get fired.
There is no situation in which someone who sees you naked professionally should be saying you look "cute", especially a woman's figure. "Your outfit is cute" is entirely acceptable, but this sounds exactly like far too many of the TSA people I've dealt with. BTW, I have traveled with a very cute woman, and she gets the same treatment and the same extra scans. This invasion of privacy is not worth the "reduced" risk of terrorism, not when the actual benefit is negligible.
The most voyeuristic are potential IRS hires.
I’m willing to bet that there is a TSA agent writing a ‘tell-all’ book about what goes on behind the scenes at the TSA.
To think that some dude is *really* enjoying his job looking at some of these screenings wouldn’t seem a stretch. To think that there’s been instances of TSA agents playing games with passengers would seem likely.
First of all, this stuff is against the constitution.
Second, women should be viewing women and men viewing men.
Third, I’ve stopped flying. There’s no place or person I want to see that’s not within driving distance.
I am fully aware of the reality that some people have to fly in conjunction with their employment. But I ask of the others: is it really worth it to feed the monster which is the TSA which is the federal government by flying voluntarily?
The airlines are obviously not fighting the system. It’s up to the passengers.
TSA thugs need to be tarred and feathered.
IIRC, the newer scanners do not show your actual body, just a generic body with any suspicious areas highlighted.
In my book, the most despicable Americans, yes even the non-english speaking ones with a wet-ink green card are:
1. TSA Employees
2. Congressmen/women with more than three Terms
3. Senators of any term length
4. Personal Injury Lawyers
5. Disability Insurance Lawyers....
Of Course, Obama/Biden/Pelosi are at the very tip top of the list, but that’s a given.
Every time my wife has gotten the “pat down” she says she feels her boobs have been groped.
This is none of your affair, move along Citizen...
This was a woman TSA agent saying this to a woman.
Maybe I should not fly because I would have asked for a supervisor right then.
Nor would I have consented to get radiated 3 times.
The indignity of the grope at least does not potentially cause cell damage.
Nonsense. The govt is the perfect hiding place for faggots and perverts. Remember jack kennedy and his whore wife? How about bj klinton?
This is probably total BS. She is probably so sure she is so important, she refused to stand still.
They are probably suing on Wednesday!
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