Posted
3/27/2008 09:05:00 PM
by Douglas
Please check your nipple ring safely in the overhead
compartment.Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked if she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was removed, she said.
She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped nipple piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.
TSA was obviously being jerks, but why on earth would anyone even attempt to comply with this? It gets better.
"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," said Hamlin's attorney, Gloria Allred, reading from a letter she sent Thursday to the director of the TSA's Office of Civil Rights and Liberties. Allred is a well-known Los Angeles lawyer who often represents high-profile claims.
Somehow, I knew Gloria "Shrill Femanist Attorney" Allred would be involved with this one.