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.
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I'll just fly United? 
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.
