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TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings
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Niccolò
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3/27/2008 11:49 PM
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TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings For Flight
A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin, 37, said at a news conference in Los Angeles. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."
Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman that she was wearing nipple piercings. The female agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the body piercings, Hamlin claimed.
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.
"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.
Hamlin showed reporters at the news conference how she took off the second ring by applying pliers to the torso of a mannequin that had a peach-colored bra with the rings on it.
She said she heard male TSA agents snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly button ring.
"After nipple rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove," Allred said.
TSA officials said they were investigating Hamlin's allegations to see if its policies were followed.
"Our security officers are well-trained to screen individuals with body piercings in sensitive areas with dignity and respect while ensuring a high level of security," the agency said in a statement.
On its Web site, the TSA warns that passengers "may be additionally screened because of hidden items such as body piercings, which alarmed the metal detector."
"If you are selected for additional screening, you may ask to remove your body piercing in private as an alternative to a pat-down search," the site reads.
Hamlin would have accepted a "pat-down" had it been offered, Allred said.
If an alarm does sound, "until that is resolved, we're not going to let them go through the checkpoint, no matter what they're wearing or where they're wearing it," said TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird in Salt Lake City.
People routinely pass through security wearing wedding rings without problems and it might take a larger bit of metal to trigger an alarm, Baird said.
"I'd be really curious to know what this woman had in her nipples," he said. "Sometimes they have a chain between their nipples, or a chain between their nipples and their belly button. It would have to be made of heavy metal to be detected."
Transportation Security employees are required to check anything that raises concerns at checkpoints, Baird said.
"No matter what it is, if it's something that unduly alarms people or sets off the sensors they must check it," Baird said. "But I've never heard of any of our people having anyone remove something that sounds as small as a nipple ring."
Allred said celebrity Nicole Richie had her breasts inspected by security at an airport because of her nipple rings several years ago. Baird said he was not aware of the Richie incident either.
Hamlin filed a complaint but the TSA's customer service manager at the Lubbock airport concluded the screening was handled properly, Allred said.
Hamlin wants an apology from the TSA and an investigation by the agency's civil rights office.
Allred said she might consider legal action if the TSA does not apologize.
Hamlin was publicly humiliated and has "undergone an enormous amount of physical pain to have the nipple rings reinserted" because of scar tissue," Allred said.
Hamlin said her piercings have never set off an airport metal detector. She added that she will never fly out of Lubbock again.
"The conduct of TSA was cruel and unnecessary," Allred said. "The last time that I checked a nipple was not a dangerous weapon."
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent, the second good, and the third useless."
--Niccolò Machiavelli
"I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
--Robert Frost
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LouisWinthorpeIII 
Self apointed knowitall
User ID: 399142
3/27/2008 11:55 PM
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Who is this chick kidding? Nipples not dangerous?
100 Million Americans were killed by Janet Jackson's nipple & bare breast!!!!!
THE HORROR!!!
How could she forget the carnage that was brought on by that tit!!!!!
NEVER FORGET!!
FEMALE NIPPLES ARE THE DEVIL'S WORK!
"I don't know which was scarier...the speech...or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble...they always use Lincoln."
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Queen
User ID: 279635
3/27/2008 11:56 PM
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Sad, this country was not founded on fear. We've fallen way very far from where we started.
We should not be living in fear, our borders are open and no one has a problem with that. Mc Cain woke me up to the truth, why is it taking so long for everyone else.
I'm not a mental giant.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 376759
3/27/2008 11:58 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
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So who's the stupid shit that put them in there in the first place?
Maybe she should sue herself.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 376759
3/28/2008 12:01 AM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
God thing they cought her. This could have turned into dangerous nipple-jacking. |
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Co SKY WATCHER
User ID: 366470
3/28/2008 12:40 AM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Wow...I got some crazy mental images from that article!
Anyone who enjoys getting nipples pierced in the first place seems kinda kinky to me maybe she like all the pain and suffering and then had to have them reinserted into her nipples///again. She'll sue for millions and win I would bet $$ on it. This is huge! This is the biggest and brest I mean best lawsuit waiting to happen in my recent mammory I mean memory! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 397323
3/28/2008 12:51 AM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
People still fly???
Deserves you all right for allowing it in the first place. You all have options!
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killdamon
User ID: 365637
3/28/2008 8:55 AM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Sad, this country was not founded on fear. We've fallen way very far from where we started.
We should not be living in fear, our borders are open and no one has a problem with that. Mc Cain woke me up to the truth, why is it taking so long for everyone else.
I'm not a mental giant. Quoting: Queen
:bush13:
Just passing thru.
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Morna Moonrae
User ID: 231774
3/28/2008 8:38 PM
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MmmmHmmmmmmmm
If this is medicine woah-oh
It tastes like medicine
Just help me get it in |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 402492
3/28/2008 9:04 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Ohhhhh, my aching nipples. Glad I only wear clamps...
:moonwonder: Quoting: Morna Moonrae
Can I be one of you clamp ons?
Heh he |
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Chesire
User ID: 394698
3/28/2008 9:16 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Ima go get a fucking prince albert so big I can use it for a shark fishing hook too. Then sue the shit out of the DHS  |
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Trin Daddy
User ID: 402519
3/28/2008 9:19 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Hey MORONS this shit is pinned. Take a look up before you REPOST. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 402492
3/28/2008 9:49 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Man all this talk about nipples and the art work on this thread,,,, shit!!
It's gettin to me!!!!!
I can't help it I'm a man. I'm weak that way !! I love titties. But by God I know they should be treated with the up MOST RESPECT.
The owners can fuck you ROYALLY up the ass if they want to, or they can just toy around with you for the rest of your life..
Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.
You can't look at them for too long! they're like the sun! if you look too long you'll get burned!
Or laid! Depends on the situation I suppose. |
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Chesire
User ID: 394698
3/28/2008 9:51 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Hey MORONS this shit is pinned. Take a look up before you REPOST. Quoting: Trin Daddy 402519
Hey asstard if we were interested in what you had to say. We would tell you to speak. Till then go lay down by your dish like a good little bitchboy and stop bothering the adults. |
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Niccolò
User ID: 348129
3/28/2008 10:57 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Hey MORONS this shit is pinned. Take a look up before you REPOST. Quoting: Trin Daddy 402519
Hey MORON,
Check the date/time on each thread, and see who the fuck reposted what! This is one of my peeves and an ongoing issue with me. Stay out of grown folks' business.
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent, the second good, and the third useless."
--Niccolò Machiavelli
"I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
--Robert Frost
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Niccolò
User ID: 348129
3/28/2008 10:57 PM | | Re: TSA Tells Woman To Remove Nipple Rings | Quote |
Hey MORONS this shit is pinned. Take a look up before you REPOST.
Hey asstard if we were interested in what you had to say. We would tell you to speak. Till then go lay down by your dish like a good little bitchboy and stop bothering the adults. Quoting: Chesire
Well said, thanks.
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent, the second good, and the third useless."
--Niccolò Machiavelli
"I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
--Robert Frost
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