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LAS VEGAS A Las Vegas woman has sued the Transportation Security Administration after she says they made her strip down in Oklahoma before a flight back to Nevada, KTNV reports.
Rhonda Mengert says in her lawsuit she was traveling through Tulsa International Airport on Mother's Day when an implant in her hip set off the metal detector, The TV station reported.
Mengert said she agreed to be pat down by a TSA agent. During the search, the agent found a "common feminine hygiene product" that she was wearing underneath her clothes.
Mengert told KNTV that TSA agents then took her to a private room and asked her to strip down and expose her genitals. The lawsuit says they then instructed her to remove the feminine hygiene product.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-sues-tsa-over-strip-search-at-oklahoma-airport/ar-AACBNSB?li=BBnb7Kz
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)oregonjen
(3,341 posts)Another way to legally violate women. I hope she wins her case!
PJMcK
(22,052 posts)What kind of feminine hygiene product will set off a metal detector?
Thanks, in advance.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I was lazy and didnt read the linked article.
My first thought was a chastity device or something even weirder!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)PJMcK
(22,052 posts)I didnt read the article, only the DU excerpt.
Frankly, it kind of scared me! The womans violation is terrible, of course, but I shuddered about a metallic tampon!
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)The wrappers in some versions contain enough metal to set them off - my spouse was subjected to a search once because a wrapped tampon she was carrying set off the detector. Fortunately, it was just the normal intrusive pat-down, not a strip search.
That said - I wonder if the woman was carrying an implant card. (I have one, for my newly acquired titanium rod, but my doctor didn't offer it - I had to ask for it. I'll get to test it it 2 weeks.)
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)"Mengert told KNTV that TSA agents then took her to a private room and asked her to strip down and expose her genitals. The lawsuit says they then instructed her to remove the feminine hygiene product."
The only hygiene product worn under the clothes that could be detected in a pat-down is a pad. In order for one's genitals to be exposed, one would, by definition, already have removed the pad.
Not that this changes the horror of the situation, but the order of events should be described accurately in the story.
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)They may have required her to remove it from the panties.
OR - she may have been wearing an old-fashioned or post-surgical/childbirth version that is held in place using a belt-like device (that device would leave her genitals covered even with underwear removed).
ETA: Here's the complaint: https://tsaoutofourpants.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/mengert-v.-tsa-complaint-filed.pdf
It appears I was correct in my initial interpretation.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)So I was confused in the 'order of events'.
Sound like they actually also asked her to remove it from her panties as well, after dropping her drawers?!?
I mean ... COME ON? How is that possibly necessary? What kind of sick f***s would require this of someone?
I really hope it was an all-female crew here or someone needs to go to jail, big time.
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)but there's absolutely no justification for making her remove it from her panties.
It seems to be targeting women - which is a bit odd, since men (and women) of the same age are incontinent & wear similar pads. The reports seem to suggest they are exclusively subjecting women to this humiliation. That would make a nice gender discrimniation case, on top of due process claims.
As to the kind or pads - the ones attached to the belts were back from the era when stockings were mostly held up by garters - back in the era when women were pretty secretive about such things.
marble falls
(57,265 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)Anything that justifies this continued intrusion?