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n2doc

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Tue Feb 14, 2012, 08:31 PM Feb 2012

Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners

By Kim Zetter
February 14, 2012 |



TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.

One woman who flew out of Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport several months ago said a female agent sent her through a body scanner three times after the agent commented on her “cute” body.

“She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’‘You just have such a cute figure,’” Ellen Terrell recalled to CBS News in Dallas.

Terrell said the female agent appeared to be acting on a request from male agents who were in a separate room viewing the scans and who apparently asked the agent to send Terrell back through the scanner twice because the scan was blurry.

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/female-body-scans/

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Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners (Original Post) n2doc Feb 2012 OP
i won't go through them. barbtries Feb 2012 #1
Bastids . . . jeez, guys, get a life. nt mistertrickster Feb 2012 #2
Oh no way! mindwalker_i Feb 2012 #3

barbtries

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1. i won't go through them.
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 09:21 PM
Feb 2012

i've steeled myself to the pat down. i kind of meditate so it won't ruin my day.

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