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TSA OKs asking old woman to remove diaper (http://www.600kcol.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=8760132)
The Transportation Security Administration defended an agent who removed an elderly woman's adult diaper.
Monday, June 27, 2011
DESTIN, Fla., June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. airport security agents did the right thing in making an elderly woman with cancer remove her adult diaper for a patdown, the overseeing agency said.
The Transportation Security Administration "cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability," TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz told the Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach.
Jean Weber, of Destin, Fla., told the newspaper the humiliation her 95-year-old mother went through was "something I couldn't imagine happening on American soil."
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Her mother, in the final stages of leukemia and wanting to fly to Michigan to be with family, was stopped in her wheelchair at Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport's security checkpoint June 18, Weber said.
During the screening, TSA agents asked her to remove her adult diaper so they could complete a patdown search because they said the diaper was soiled and impeding the search, Weber told the newspaper.
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Because those 95-year old leukemia patients are notorious for their vicious terror attacks on the airplanes. :whatever: