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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Another reason not to fly unless you have to
Posted by Jill | 3:58 PM
There really is no reason for this:
A woman has filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over how her elderly mother was detained and searched by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.

News Herald reported that Jean Weber filed the complaint after her wheelchair-bound 95-year-old mother, who is in the final stages of her battle with leukemia, was asked to remove an adult diaper during a pat down search.

According to Weber, her elderly mother was first taken to a glass-partitioned area and patted down before being taken to another room. As she was waiting outside of the room, officers conducting the pat down told Weber that her mother's Depends diaper would need to be removed because it was soiled and impeding their search.

“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”

Weber took her elderly mother to the bathroom and removed her diaper, then returned to complete the pat down. She said she did not have another clean diaper with her.

A spokesperson for the TSA said that officers must follow the same procedures for everyone to prevent terrorists from finding vulnerabilities in the security check points.


/speechless.

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Anonymous skywind said...
Why is is ALWAYS Florida?
6/26/11, 10:45 PM  
Blogger PurpleGirl said...
So a 60-something daughter has placed explosives on her mother (in her diaper!) and is taking her by plane to what she wants to blow up... makes perfect sense to me (not).
6/27/11, 10:15 AM  
Anonymous Charlie O said...
“OK. It's time for the Joseph Welsh moment with the TSA. Sirs and Madams, "Have you no sense of decency?"
6/27/11, 10:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This is beyond outrageous. Where have common courtesy and decency gone?
6/27/11, 5:16 PM  
Anonymous Theresa H Hall said...
This is an utter OUTRAGE!
6/27/11, 5:16 PM  
Anonymous mandt said...
Jeeze, busted for a fully loaded diaper. Ain't America great?
6/27/11, 10:07 PM  
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