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TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-what-you-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TSA employee Theldala Magee has filed a lawsuit against a blogger demanding $500k in damages for alleging a particularly invasive search involving multiple incursions of a finger into the passenger's vagina. The passenger, who likened the feeling to being raped, is being sued for defamation for supposedly sullying the otherwise good name of a checkpoint smurf."

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  1. Re:If I ever take my family overseas by EaglemanBSA · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why I don't fly anymore. Molest me, fine, it'll piss me off and I'll want to talk to a manager. Molest my kid, and I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

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  2. Re:USA by scamper_22 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's posts like this that should show you that Europeans are just as enlightened or ignorant as Americans.

    Do you really think that is the average person's experience at the airport? Do you really think Americans are nuts?

    Seriously, you think the US is some crazy place?
    I was born in Africa, have a very Muslim name, live in Canada now, and have been to the US dozens of times. Sometimes for work. Sometimes for play.

    You know what US border/airport security is like? It's pretty routine... apart from the whole taking off my shoes thing. But the personnel are pretty normal. No different than I've experienced in the UK or Holland.

    During my last trip for work in Florida, I left my shaving cream and toothpaste in my carry-on bag by accident. Normally I throw it all out. It got flagged in the scanners. The guy called his supervisor. They had me step aside, emptied the bag... found out it was shaving cream, cracked a joke... threw out my shaving cream, and I was on my way. Pretty regular behavior.

    I'm sure some people have had bad experiences. But people have had bad experiences in the UK, Canada, France... too. The US just isn't that nutty.

  3. Re:Theldala gonna to be gettin' PAID! by KingAlanI · · Score: 4, Informative

    "doing what they told me to do" defense ... is no defense at all.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Defense

    Very subtle Godwin. And one that's actually on-topic ;)

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