Daniel_

Seconded.

The point here is not that thwoman was not taking responsibility for her jewelery, it's that the rules were not applied universally or consistently (she had to remove her nipple jewellery, but not her navel jewellery) and it's further that the TSA's own rules were not followed - she claims not to have been offered a pat down search, and claims that if she had, she'd have accepted.

From the article in the OP it seems like an odd rule that is itself a bit of an overkill was applied in an odd fashion in a way that caused her humiliation and pain when the rules in place should at most have caused her to have to explain her piercing choice and show she was not armed.

In the litigious culture that appears to exist on the US side of the pond, I'd expect this woman to take the TSA to the fucking cleaners.

I'm not saying I approve, but she's got a big name civil rights lawyer on her side and the TSA's gonna get raped.

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