TSA needs to go...

[Will E Worm]

85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport

An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport.

Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to a private room and took off her clothes.

“I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she said sarcastically. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 pounds, 107 without clothes, and I was strip-searched.”

TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said a review of closed circuit TV footage from the airport shows “proper procedures were followed.”

But Zimmerman, whose hunched back puts her at 4-foot-11, said her ordeal began after her son, Bruce, drove her to the JetBlue terminal for the Florida flight. She lives in warm Coconut Creek during the winter.

She checked her bags, waited for a wheelchair and parted ways with her doting son — her only immediate relative.

When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.

She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.

“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.

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[Thomas O'Malley]

Security before anything else.

 

[Will E Worm]

Security before anything else.

That's what they think. They are breaking the fourth amendment.

 

[Doc Scurlock]

Maybe the terrorists next plan was to dress up like old ladies and have the explosives in their walkers. We don't know, man, we just don't know.

 

[Mayhem]

More government over-reaching and intrusion, brought to you by the Republican Messiah, Georgy II.

I love how conservatives bleat like the sheep they are about small government and freedom, yet they brought about the worthless Dept. of Homeland Security and the TSA.

 

[Elwood70]

I really hate to say this; because I'm only 41, and it's going to make me seem like I'm much older, but WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE AMERICA I GREW UP IN!?

I mean; I know it wasn't a fucking Utopia,but seriously, what the fuck!?

 

[Ace Bandage]

What's she bitching about? That's the most action she's had since Nam.

She asked for the pat down so you know she wanted it...

 

[Facetious]

Maybe the terrorists next plan was to dress up like old ladies and have the explosives in their walkers. We don't know, man, we just don't know.

"Swarthy old ladies" :1orglaugh

I really hate to say this; because I'm only 41, and it's going to make me seem like I'm much older, but WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE AMERICA I GREW UP IN!?

I mean; I know it wasn't a fucking Utopia,but seriously, what the fuck!?

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!!! :hammer:.... racist!!! :jester: :tongue:

(I love that bumper sticker)... NOT!

 

[Ulysses31]

She looks trouble

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-denies-forcing-granny-84-pull-underwear.html

 

[domshooter]

That's what they think. They are breaking the fourth amendment.

no theyre not. its not unreasonable. security before all else.

what would they be replaced with? nothing? so airline security goes from possible a little much, to absolutely nothing? bright idea

 

[Hypergalaxy]

They may need to calm the hell down but they don't need to "go" anywhere.

 

[Will E Worm]

no theyre not. its not unreasonable. security before all else.

Not at all. This is not Nazi Germany.

what would they be replaced with? nothing? so airline security goes from possible a little much, to absolutely nothing? bright idea

Replaced with nothing. We never needed them.

They may need to calm the hell down but they don't need to "go" anywhere.

They need to go away.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Not at all. This is not Nazi Germany.

Replaced with nothing. We never needed them.

They need to go away.

Some people disagreed with you. They provided as much reasoning as you did.

I call it a wash. You surely haven't convinced me of anything.

 

[MrZiggles]

The alternative would be something similar to profiling.

 

[Will E Worm]

Some people disagreed with you. They provided as much reasoning as you did.

I call it a wash. You surely haven't convinced me of anything.

I do not need to convince you of anything. TSA needs to go... period... end of story. :hatsoff:

 

[lurkingdirk]

I do not need to convince you of anything. TSA needs to go... period... end of story. :hatsoff:

No they don't. Period. End of story.

 

[Will E Worm]

No they don't. Period. End of story.

Yes, they do. End of story. :hatsoff:

 

[lurkingdirk]

Yes, they do. End of story. :hatsoff:

Feel like a productive conversation to you?

No. I didn't think so.

 

[Will E Worm]

Feel like a productive conversation to you?

No. I didn't think so.

:troll: :tongue:

 

[rjdogma]

I travel a ton and while incidents above are disturbing, I don't have much of a problem with the TSA. They always treat me respectfully and it's not a lot of effort to obey the rules and get through quickly.