Court OKs airport groin searches for drugs
An airport security officer can pat-search a passenger's groin area for hidden drugs, as long as the officer is the same gender and the passenger doesn't express an objection, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
In a case from Seattle, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a search that found 700 pills of the painkiller oxycodone in the underwear of a man who was about to board a plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The court said an officer who has a passenger's consent for a pat-down is entitled to search the groin, a common hiding place for drugs.
The passenger, Keith Russell, was stopped by a police officer at the airport in August 2010 after a ticket agent reported that he had paid cash for a last-minute, one-way ticket to Anchorage, and was traveling alone without checked-in luggage.
Suspecting that Russell, who had a previous drug conviction, might be a drug courier, the police officer identified himself as a narcotics investigator and asked for permission to search.
full: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/05/BANL1MLDPL.DTL
SixthSense
(829 posts)the moment you arrive at the airport
Civilized people should not put up with this. Getting felt up by strangers is far more disturbing than someone carrying around a bunch of painkillers.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)then proceed with the groin searching.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Your FAILURE on your "war on drugs" should not infringe on my rights. Go to hell!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Alameda
(1,895 posts)Ann Richards had a funny thing to say about that.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)On edit: Thank you for posting this.
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)When they search there, start to moan real loud as a means to embarrass them.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Alameda
(1,895 posts)primavera
(5,191 posts)And then have a spontaneous incontinence experience when they try to grope me.
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....except I wouldn't bathe for a month, eat a big bowl of chili, do a poor job of wiping my ass and carry my wallet in a bulging plastic pouch between my legs....
....search baby, search!
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)crim son
(27,464 posts)Thanks, I needed that!
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Passenger, "Nah, that was my twin brother."
TSA: "Who was that 10 minutes before your twin brother."
Passenger, "uh, that was my other twin brother."
Passenger, "Can I listen to Marvin Gaye on my IPOD this time around?"
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Our Junk!
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)someone that just wants to chill the bleep out.
Maynar
(769 posts)I'll just fly United?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And think, that man might have done something horrible with those drugs on that plane, like left them in his pants until he got where he was going, and then got off the plane.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)don't want another guy touching my groin. let the girls do it.
Personally I preferred the body scanners. Scan me naked. I'm not a privacy freak when it comes to baring it all if someone tells me to. Only time I feel uncomfortable is when a dr wants to finger my asshole.. , like hey quit that.
saras
(6,670 posts)I can just hear the airport echoing with it as some poor schmuck goes behind the curtain for the search...
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)ticket and having no luggage will get you both groped and fingered up the ass since 911. I don't know whether the greater stupidity is doing those things while carrying drugs, or after doing them, agreeing to a search. This guy is selecting himself out of the gene pool. What I find most amazing is the speed with which they fingered him in the data base. Airports are ground zero of the national security state. Try and stay away from them.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Either that or the drug-carrying Limbaugh-wannabe was given the impression that he could not leave and could not reject a search.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Or is that not considered the groin area?