Nipple rings now a no-no for flights?

[conehead433]

If you can't make it through a metal detector I don't want to fly on a plane with you. Thanks TSA for doing your jobs.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

She made it through the metal detector, it was a hand detector which picked up the nipple rings.

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: conehead433
If you can't make it through a metal detector I don't want to fly on a plane with you. Thanks TSA for doing your jobs.

Learn to read complete stories instead of the headlines. :roll:

 

[buck]

Woof!

 

[SirStev0]

ohhh man I feel so much safer on plans... Go TSA.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Aflac
need moar pics

After seeing the pic at the top of the article, you want more? :Q

why did they have to include that pic? it's not at all what i expected her to look like. 🙁

anyways... total bullshit she had to endure from the TSA agents. if the whole story is like presented in the article, she will sue and win.

Give me a break. You know its not like it was presented, Mosh; that's why you insured your reply with "if the whole story is like presented...". I almost puked blood when I read this fabricated sob story of B.S.

Xstatic jumped on the bandwagon like stink on shit when he posted the worthless polls. How about putting up something like "If metal was detected on someone and that person did not offer a valid medical explanation of the metal object while being searched in front of you, would you want TSA to fully investigate why this person is setting off the alarm before you get on the plane with them?" See what kind of responses you get then...

This article is bullshit. They were doing their job and MSNBC flipped the story and now we have three pages of idiotic "TSA sucks again" replies... ATOT ftw.

 

[moshquerade]

Disclaimer they will likely use:

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 says.

http://www.knbc.com/news/15722097/detail.html

 

[SpunkyJones]

I thought only hot chicks had piercings. 🙁

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: QED

Hamlin, 37, 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.

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Does not compute!!!

Looks like she's been around the block a few times and enjoyed many a fine chemical wonder. 😛

Originally posted by: MrLee

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Aflac
need moar pics

After seeing the pic at the top of the article, you want more? :Q

why did they have to include that pic? it's not at all what i expected her to look like. 🙁

anyways... total bullshit she had to endure from the TSA agents. if the whole story is like presented in the article, she will sue and win.

Give me a break. You know its not like it was presented, Mosh; that's why you insured your reply with "if the whole story is like presented...". I almost puked blood when I read this fabricated sob story of B.S.

Xstatic jumped on the bandwagon like stink on shit when he posted the worthless polls. How about putting up something like "If metal was detected on someone and that person did not offer a valid medical explanation of the metal object while being searched in front of you, would you want TSA to fully investigate why this person is setting off the alarm before you get on the plane with them?" See what kind of responses you get then...

This article is bullshit. They were doing their job and MSNBC flipped the story and now we have three pages of idiotic "TSA sucks again" replies... ATOT ftw.

TSA let her board with her belly button piercing.

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[QED]

If you read the article, the TSA agent says most nipple rings (and other forms of small metal jewelry) are so small that they don't set off any metal detector. I'm guessing this lady was so fat she had to have an extra thick and heavy nipple ring to stay in place.

Look, if you're the TSA you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. For all anyone knows that metal nipple ring could've masked something else that was dangerous and metal underneath. It's not unreasonable to remove an extra large nipple ring if it's setting off metal detectors.

 

[marvdmartian]

Her problem wasn't with wearing nipple rings on a flight........it was with wearing nipple rings on a flight from Lubbock. Honestly, I'm surprised they even knew what a nipple ring was!

The TSA guy was a jerk. She could've just as easily gone behind a screen, dropped her bra, and showed it was just jewelry to a female TSA rep. I guess the guy thought maybe it was a box cutter?? :roll:

 

[Xstatic1]

Originally posted by: MrLee

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Aflac
need moar pics

After seeing the pic at the top of the article, you want more? :Q

why did they have to include that pic? it's not at all what i expected her to look like. 🙁

anyways... total bullshit she had to endure from the TSA agents. if the whole story is like presented in the article, she will sue and win.

Give me a break. You know its not like it was presented, Mosh; that's why you insured your reply with "if the whole story is like presented...". I almost puked blood when I read this fabricated sob story of B.S.

Xstatic jumped on the bandwagon like stink on shit when he posted the worthless polls. How about putting up something like "If metal was detected on someone and that person did not offer a valid medical explanation of the metal object while being searched in front of you, would you want TSA to fully investigate why this person is setting off the alarm before you get on the plane with them?" See what kind of responses you get then...

This article is bullshit. They were doing their job and MSNBC flipped the story and now we have three pages of idiotic "TSA sucks again" replies... ATOT ftw.

give ME a break.

first off, i'm a female.

secondly, fully investigate a piece of metal (likely comparable to the size of a wedding ring) that was attached to a female's body part, and likely a sensitive area at that. WTF is there to *investigate*? sheesh, might as well make it a rule of absolutely no jewelry worn on flights: wedding rings, tongue rings, earrings, bracelets, belly button rings, necklaces etc. :roll:

my problem with this is that the TSA knowingly had her continue to try and remove it with the assistance of pliers. if she couldn't get the darn thing off without pliers, what's the likelihood the nipple ring would pose a threat mid-flight?

for the record, the leading answers to my poll is exactly how i voted.

it's one thing to be concerned about security, it's another to be anal about it.

MrLee FTL!

 

[Xstatic1]

UPDATE:

LOS ANGELES ? The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.

Mandi Hamlin, 37, had demanded an apology and her Los Angeles-based attorney sent a letter to the TSA this week requesting a civil rights investigation.

Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a TSA 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 she was wearing nipple piercings. The agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.

Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked whether 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 out, she said.

Hamlin was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring. She said the officer gave her pliers to remove the ring, a process which caused a lot of physical pain.

The TSA said Fridday in a statement on its Web site that the officers properly followed procedures, but that the procedures must change. In the future passengers can either allow a visual inspection of their piercings, or remove them, the agency said.

The statement stopped short of apologizing to Hamlin.

"TSA acknowledges that our procedures caused difficulty for the passenger involved and regrets the situation in which she found herself," the agency said in a statement. "We appreciate her raising awareness on this issue and we are changing the procedures to ensure that this does not happen again."

An after-hours call to Hamlin's attorney, Gloria Allred, was not immediately returned.

source

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Xstatic1
my problem with this is that the TSA knowingly had her continue to try and remove it with the assistance of pliers. if she couldn't get the darn thing off without pliers, what's the likelihood the nipple ring would pose a threat mid-flight?

Or rather, what's the likelihood of a nipple piercing posing a threat anywhere but in an MRI machine?
"Oh my god, give her control of the plane! She has a nipple ring in her hand! She might give us minor lacerations!"

Will they also ban paper? Paper cuts can really hurt. Or cardboard. I worked retail and had my share of slices from cardboard. In over 2 years of stocking shelves, I never once got cut on my boxcutter, but I got several nice gashes by accidentally running my hand or arm along the edge of a cardboard box.

Just strip each passenger down and put them in straightjackets and velvet-lined foot shackles for the duration of the flight. We wouldn't want anyone to cause problems with fists now, would we?

Can't provide genuine safety? Then provide the illusion of safety instead, at taxpayer expense of course.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Disclaimer they will likely use:

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 says.

http://www.knbc.com/news/15722097/detail.html

She said that she was never offered the pat down.

I wonder how much the TSA will settle for?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
She said that she was never offered the pat down.

I wonder how much the Tax Payers will settle for?

Fixed.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: destrekor
They let a belly button piercing go through, but no nipple piercing? Asshole TSA agents. Female agent seemed to just let the men take control.

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But we don't know if the piercing had enough (or any metal) in it to trip the wand.

Everyone knows you have to remove anything metal and have it scanned. As uncomfortable as that was for her, she has to follow the rules like everyone else.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: ryan256
Lets see.... you're going on an airplane. You know you will have to pass through security. You know you will have to go through a metal detector.
Either
A) Buy jewelry that is not going to be picked up.
B) Don't wear them.

Guess you don't realize that you cannot remove nipple rings and put them back in on a whim.

The hole closes up very fast and you would have to get re-pierced and it would take another year to heal.

Try learning things in the real world before posting nonsense and your bowing to this kind of totalarian authority is sickening.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ryan256
Lets see.... you're going on an airplane. You know you will have to pass through security. You know you will have to go through a metal detector.
Either
A) Buy jewelry that is not going to be picked up.
B) Don't wear them.

Guess you don't realize that you cannot remove nipple rings and put them back in on a whim.

The hole closes up very fast and you would have to get re-pierced and it would take another year to heal.

Try learning things in the real world before posting nonsense and your bowing to this kind of totalarian authority is sickening.

:thumbsup:

KT

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ryan256
Lets see.... you're going on an airplane. You know you will have to pass through security. You know you will have to go through a metal detector.
Either
A) Buy jewelry that is not going to be picked up.
B) Don't wear them.

Guess you don't realize that you cannot remove nipple rings and put them back in on a whim.

The hole closes up very fast and you would have to get re-pierced and it would take another year to heal.

Try learning things in the real world before posting nonsense and your bowing to this kind of totalarian authority is sickening.

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: destrekor
They let a belly button piercing go through, but no nipple piercing? Asshole TSA agents. Female agent seemed to just let the men take control.

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But we don't know if the piercing had enough (or any metal) in it to trip the wand.

Everyone knows you have to remove anything metal and have it scanned. As uncomfortable as that was for her, she has to follow the rules like everyone else.

My post applies to all spouting such nonsense.