"He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs" TSA story of the week

[Liberal_in_LA]

Tim Ely, a retired Army officer who once commanded a military police unit in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed an online complaint after a Nov. 20 confrontation at RDU. He was subjected to an intimate pat-down because of a false alarm from the body scanner.

After an agent groped around his genitals from in front and from behind, Ely challenged him to explain what sort of anomaly had turned up on his full-body scan.

"He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs," Ely, 63, wrote in his RDU online comment. "I told him that something suspicious was my , you dummy."



Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/14/861264/pat-downs-anger-rdu-fliers.html#ixzz189i8hj1T

[Initech]

1. I would've used the reaction Billy Bob Thorton did in Bad Santa

"Hey your pants are awfully baggy... are you carrying anything in there?"
"Yeah - my dick, you want to see it?"

[sendero]

20. One of my..

... favorite movies of all time. Of the less serious variety anyway :)

[Poll_Blind]

2. To misquote Vonnegut "Tim had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one."

:shrug:

PB

[Arctic Dave]

3. Yes I do see the irony of this story. Thank you very much.

I bet he thought he was above such treatment.

[EFerrari]

4. Can you believe it? We have so many people doing this sh!t

they're bumping into each other.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. lol. The abuser being abused

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. cuz he was commander at Guantanamo. yes

[tkmorris]

23. You do know Gitmo existed before 2001 yes?

Once upon a time it was just a military base, like many others around the world.

[LisaL]

7. Do you think you deserve such treatment?

[Arctic Dave]

9. I don't believe anyone deserves that type of treatment.

Maybe you should ask him the same question.

[LisaL]

14. What freaking difference does it possibly make what

this guy's background is?

[rbixby]

21. The irony is the difference

[antigone382]

13. In his defense, I know a guy who was stationed at Guantanamo as a guard, I believe.

He didn't really deal with the prisoners and didn't know much about what was going on in the interrogation rooms...that's just where his national guard unit got sent. It's a big place, and the military has a reputation for the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. I don't know what role an MP would have played relating to the prisoners, so I won't rule out that he was involved in abuse and torture, but as I understand it most of the really heinous stuff was done by the CIA. The guy very well could be a monster, but I'm not at this point going to assume that he is one.

[The Doctor.]

8. That's it...

I'm smuggling neo-tropical squirrels from this day hence.

[reformist2]

10. They should all wear this badge:

[Incitatus]

11. oh damn

[EFerrari]

12. That is creepy!

lol

[badgerpup]

18. That's Pedo-Bear...

...and while he IS the poster...um...being for molestation, the operative word there is PEDO.
You know, like in pedophilia?

Pedo-bear and TSA...:yoiks:
Nope, I'm not even going to go there...if I'm going to get flamed, I want it to because I choose to open a can of worms...
:hide:

This one I ain't touchin'.

[pnorman]

15. "someting suspicious"? Like this?

[progressoid]

17. Ummm

:spray:

[xultar]

19. He wishes

[Cobalt-60]

16. he must have the DeLuxe package

And those TSA guys couldn't wait to grope it.

[AlabamaLibrul]

22. Is that a waterboard in your pants, or...

end of transmission

[Jamastiene]

24. That settles it.

If the TSA is going to grope people, they should also be required to take some simple anatomy classes. You'd think they already knew the anatomy of a man before screening him. I'm a lesbian and even I know what's hangin' betwixt a man's legs. :eyes: