Everybody Hates TSA

Wow, everybody hates the TSA and who can blame them? In case you haven’t been watching the slow-motion train wreck unfold, here are a few lowlights:

• TSA pats down a 3-year-old.
• Accounts vary, but somehow a boy who must be what, five or six, ended up shirtless for his TSA pat-down.
• TSA made a breast cancer survivor remove her prosthetic breast.
• TSA must hate cancer survivors, because they also patted down a bladder cancer survivor and he ended up covered in his own urine from his urostomy bag.

There have been some excellent resistance stories though:

• John Tyner refused, “if you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested.”
• So did this fellow, “I understand what the pat-down entails, but I wanted to let you know that I do not give you permission to touch my genitals or the surrounding area. If you do, I will consider it assault.”
• Finally, blast from the past, Penn Jillette was groped by airport security in 2002 and insisted they call the police.

I ended up in the backscatter machine on a recent trip to Florida a bit before this really started to hit the fan. Didn’t realize what it was until I was in there, I just assumed it was that puffer machine.