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TSA: We're Sorry About the Whole Nipple Thing

Gloria AllredGloria Allred 1, TSA 0!

The Transportation Security Administration has officially changed their screening process regarding nipple rings.

Today they acknowledged that they may have gone too far by having a woman remove her nipple rings during a stop at airport security clearance in Lubbock, TX.

The TSA posted the following statement on their website: "TSA acknowledges that our procedures caused difficulty for the passenger involved and regrets the situation in which she found herself. We appreciate her raising awareness on this issue and we are changing the procedures to ensure that this does not happen again."

Hooray for nipples everywhere!



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46. Nipples...nipples...nipples....America - the land of the BIGOTED! :-)

So ridiculous....

Posted at 4:59AM on Mar 29th 2008 by German duckie

47. You people who are telling this woman to get over it, wait until you are asked to do something equally humiliating!! You will be singing a different tune then. I hate Gloria Allred, but what those TSA agents did was wrong, they should be fired.

Posted at 8:10AM on Mar 29th 2008 by Chacha

48. "32. I thought only Strippers wore nipple rings. That old lady doesn't look like a Stripper.

Posted at 11:06PM on Mar 28th 2008 by B.B."

Don't be stupid, that's the lawyer not the victim.

Posted at 8:50AM on Mar 29th 2008 by Dexan

49. The airline owes this lady nothing-not even an apology. Wear nipple rings if you want to-it's your choice-- but be prepared to remove the 'jewelry' at the airport. Doesn't everybody know the drill by now-sheesh!! It will go off at the metal detector-duh! If you don't want to go through that 'humiliation'-don't wear 'jewelry' that will need to be removed with pliers. Dumb lady.....

Posted at 8:54AM on Mar 29th 2008 by WHESS

50. If that nasty woman really had her nipples pierced...they'd need more than pliers to get them out....perhaps a forklift....ugh, going to throw up now.

Posted at 12:35PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Tommy

51. .


Oh, for crying out loud, I wear underwire bras, and I have NEVER had a problem at the airport!!



Posted at 12:36PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Kate

52. Nip it...nip it in the bud!

Posted at 4:03PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Barney Fife

53. Gloria Allred was born in 1941 and is 67 years old, and so looks absolutely amazing. She has a stand up history of taking rights cases, and cut her legal teeth in a time (60's, early 70's) when it was sorely needed. She has simply continued her passion, and has a gut instinct for real rights transgressions and winning cases, which is probably why she wins so much. Read her bio at Wiki and you may have a new found respect for her. Personally, I don't think they make them like her anymore. Kudos to Gloria.

Posted at 5:23PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Flames Fan

54. My son is severely head injured. A few years ago, I was literally in tears when the screeners searched him. They were pretty rough with him and even lifted him up in his wheelchair. I begged them to be gentle with him and to take us into a private room, but they continued their search in plain view of everyone.

Posted at 6:46PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Alexa

55. I like cheese nips.

Posted at 10:20PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Howard Sprague

56. Kate, perhaps your boobs, and thus your underwire, are too tiny for folks to take note?

Posted at 10:39PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Sad

57. The grope and grope and grope and knead and fondle and lift and seperate and grope some more breast searches conducted at Seattle and San Diego airports made the news.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/201123_airport25.html
Even a COP said she felt totally violated by this in Seattle. The film of it, right out in the open in front of gawkers and at least 1 person filming who gave it to the news, was some naaaaasty stuff. In San Diego a woman with a small child who asked to be taken in a back room and allowed to just take her clothes off, rather than be felt up, was told that she would then be considered to have "flashed" the screeners and was banned from boarding her flight. She drove 15 hours to get home with her toddler. We've turned over feeling people up for pay to Burger King quality people. Gross.

Posted at 11:30PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Alexa

58. A little nippy tonight.

Posted at 11:38PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Gilligan

59. I like to take a little nip once in a while.

Posted at 11:55PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Nipsey Russell

60. Why doesn't Gloria Allred just shut the hell up and go away. All she does is scramble to get media attention no matter what it does to her poor clients. She doesn't even know how to practice law...she has her unknown real lawyer underlings do the heavy lifting. And why the hell does her nose go over to one side??? She is known to ambulance chase anyone she thinks can help her get on tv. She's a narcisstic no talent has been.
She looks like a drag queen corpse. GO AWAY GLORIA. We are all sick to death of you.

Posted at 2:05PM on Mar 30th 2008 by Feeling Truthy

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