31. TSA is not allowed to have you remove your body piercings. All you have to do is let me know that it is a piercing, if you are questioned. That's why they have body scanner wands. I use to work at the airport for a airlines last year and the people they hire for TSA are uneducated and think that they are real cops or FBI. As long as you can pass a background check then you are hired. TSA gets paid around $7.50-$9.00 per hour. They get enjoyment off making people pist. I just know this info from being around them and listening to them talk.

Posted at 8:05PM on Mar 27th 2008 by js

32. Please give more rational choices if you want people to particpate in your poll.

Posted at 8:25PM on Mar 27th 2008 by TMZ needs better choices on the polls

33. I think this idiot that is filing the suit knew what she was doing when she kept the nipple ring on. Gloria just need to retire. Every time we turn around she is on tv bitching about something else that is ridiculous. This idiot should have known that she would have to pass a metal detector.

Posted at 8:34PM on Mar 27th 2008 by BayouLovebug

34. I think all Airport Security should hire people specifically to search for nipple jewelry and I'll be the first to volunteer for the job (strictly for research purposes only, of course)

Posted at 8:41PM on Mar 27th 2008 by moveover00

35. From an article on another website "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."

UMMM....if it was so painful to have them put back in...maybe she should have left them out - DOH!!

Posted at 8:44PM on Mar 27th 2008 by see ya

36. Who cares if they make someone remove their nip rings? We should be more concerned with the fact that the woman in question is an aging hag with nipple rings. Ew!

Posted at 8:56PM on Mar 27th 2008 by Katie

37. Gloria Allred scares the Hell out of Harvy Levin. She's a pit bull, he's a wiener dog. kb

Posted at 8:57PM on Mar 27th 2008 by ken bailey

38. Hey #6 (STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES, AND STUPID WORE NIPPLE RINGS)

It's obvious you're one of those people that obey laws no matter how broadly written or outlandishly enforced. So what if the girl wore nipple rings to the airport? She probably didn't even think about them, while preparing for her trip.

Let's look at the TSA for a moment. (We won't bother with the Patriot Act and its many civil rights trampling provisions under the guise of 'homeland security'). Some of the TSA employees have been caught stealing items from luggage, among other issues. They are not supervised well enough and should hardly be given the power to humiliate someone like that. Any supervisor with an ounce of common sense knows that a woman with nipple rings isn't a security threat, by any stretch of the imagination. As long as the rings were the only source of the alarm, she should not have been made to remove them just to silence it.

What's next, making a 6 year old remove his/her mouth braces to quiet the alarm? Now there's a security threat!

Posted at 9:15PM on Mar 27th 2008 by More Bush Admin Bullshit

39. Honestly, this is the most ridiculous thing ever. The TSA has gone too far. I live in Lubbock and have flown out of Houston, San Diego, Las Vegas, and NEVER in any of those latter mentioned cities have I been treated as horribly as I have in Lubbock. The TSA agents truly abuse their authority and act like they are some kind of FBI agent when in reality, they are people who can't hold down a regular job. They have stolen things out of my bags and treated me like a second rate citizen for no reason. I realize the importance of their job and appreciate the fact that we have such an agency, but these rabid agents here have made us look like a bunch of idiots. Thank you Lubbock TSA, you have embarrassed Lubbock, again.

Posted at 9:17PM on Mar 27th 2008 by DD

40. come on people are we not told everytime we go to fly make sure all metal is off your person or you will be scaned and made to take off whatever it is thats is making you bep.
It is for our safty what if she had a knife in her bar trust me I can be done, no one knows unless she is made to take them off .
yeah I wish we could be free to have this stuff go away but unless you can say no more creeps are going to hi jack a plane and kill alot of people we have to have rules like these and the cry babys need to do their part to.

Posted at 9:23PM on Mar 27th 2008 by concerned

41. Gloria Allred is becoming as big of a Media Whore as Kaplan and Paris Hilton. Some people will do anything to get publicity.
If Allred is going to represent Heather Mills (why?), she's going to really be in trouble. Americans hate Mills as much as the people in England. Don't you DARE move to America, you slut Heather !!!!

Posted at 9:34PM on Mar 27th 2008 by Shouldn't Allred be retired? She's so old.

42. Guess I'm getting old. Why would anyone want nipple rings? Seems like a stupid idea to me.

Posted at 9:42PM on Mar 27th 2008 by Ann

43. I don't know which is more preposterous, that woman claiming she's only 39, or someone actually agreeing to pierce her nipple! There outta be a law

Posted at 9:49PM on Mar 27th 2008 by tnttoo

44. I'm with you, Ann. What's the point in having Nipple Rings ? Somebody tell us. Some fads should not be fads - like hair extensions on women and errings on men. Really dumb looking.

Posted at 10:07PM on Mar 27th 2008 by Kay

45. The TSA had every right to ask the woman to remove her piercings. As someone commented earlier, the woman very well could have had something else hidden on her person, and security had to make certain that it was merely the nipple rings that were setting off the detectors--------for everyone else's safety. As for security checks that allow people to just pass on through after they confide that they have piercings, THAT concerns me. People do lie, ya know. I guess if I was a terrorist and wanted to sneak a weapon on board all I'd have to do is say "oh, it's only a prince albert tee hee, do not worry"? Psssssssssht. Hamlin knew the rules.
And another thing, in the AP's story on this Allred says she sent a letter to director of the TSA's Office of Civil Rights and Liberties, and in this letter she says:
"After nipple rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove."
Ok, sure cb rings can be a pain in the butt to remove or change out I agree with that but for pete's sake if your skin is grown up around the darned thing you should have removed it a long time ago! That's NOT normal. So, no sympathy from me for Hamlin on that one if she's stupid enough to walk around with a deformed, badly healed piercing.
For the record, I have 12 piercings and I'm aware of when it is appropriate to sport them and when it is not. IMO, I'd venture a guess that preparing to pass through a metal detector is not a good time.

Posted at 10:10PM on Mar 27th 2008 by squeaky