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Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals
McGruber writes: The CBS affiliate in Denver reports: "Two Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International Airport have been fired after they were discovered manipulating passenger screening systems to allow a male TSA employee to fondle the genital areas of attractive male passengers." According to law enforcement reports obtained during the CBS4 investigation, a male TSA screener told a female colleague in 2014 that he "gropes" male passengers who come through the screening area at DIA. "He related that when a male he finds attractive comes to be screened by the scanning machine he will alert another TSA screener to indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is a female. When the screener does this, the scanning machine will indicate an anomaly in the genital area and this allows (the male TSA screener) to conduct a pat-down search of that area." Although the TSA learned of the accusation on Nov. 18, 2014 via an anonymous tip from one of the agency's own employees, reports show that it would be nearly three months before anything was done."
Many years ago (199o's) I had a lay over in Warsaw, Poland. That would be my first flights. I still remember some American dude who quarrelled with the staff about some trivial security procedures (like asking a question). Why are they interviewing on us - he would yell. And now, my gosh, they grope him in his own country. What a disgrace.
Seems like it is sexual assault.
If I am hired to set up a security checkpoint in front of a bar, I could do security pat downs without it being sexual. If, on the other hand, I intentionally manipulated the system to pat down attractive bar patrons for my own gratification, I'm pretty sure I would be arrested and end up on some sort of sex offender list.
Why didn't the TSA refer this to law enforcement?
We've seen a number of stories involving TSA agents being arrested for any number of crimes. Everything from assault, to child pornography, to murder. This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Which is not to say that all TSA agents ARE the scum that they tend to be made out to be. But it's a worrying program.
In terms of this kind of activities detailed in this story... well hell. I know from talking with a former TSA employee that this sort of thing is VERY common. I've even meet a former TSA agent that not only admits doing this at an airport in California. But he did it aallll the time. And he wasn't the only one doing it.
"After controlling for time trends, weather, road conditions, and other factors, we attribute an increase of 242 driving fatalities per month to additional road travel undertaken in response to 9/11."
It's highly likely that more people have died due to the response to terrorism than from actual terrorism in the US.
This is probably more common than people realize. I was groped by a TSA screener at EWR a few months ago.
I usually get TSA Pre and don't have to go through the nude-o-scope, but occasionally when TSA Pre does not work - I opt out of the machine and choose the "pat down". Usually it's a fairly benign experience - screeners make a point to say that they will "stop just short of the private areas" and "use the back of their hand", and normally do so. I go through a dozen of these a year and it's normally a non-event.
On this particular occasion, however, the TSA guy didn't say any of those things, and made sure to run palm of his hand up the inside of my leg on both sides, firmly groping my privates. The action was pretty obvious, and I even considered complaining - but I was running short on time, and (to be completely honest) I am not terribly shy about being touched and don't really care, though I think he is not supposed to be doing this and it would be good to "make a point". After many searches I know how they are supposed to be properly conducted, but many others may be subject to search only rarely and would not know what is "legal".
Also - I'd take it as more a compliment if *he* was more attractive, but the TSA guy was really not my type. Posting anonymous, don't want TSA to get upset with me or anything, that's our life in the Land of The Free :)
I know this is a joke but I was recently reading the wikipedia article about Eunuchs and pretty much at every point in history we have had jobs that we've considered castration as a de facto requirement - harem manager, treble singer, etc.