The TSA Pat Down nightmares get better and better… or rather, worse and worse. The TSA forces a woman to remove her prosthetic breast at an airport in North Carolina.
The three-year breast cancer survivor, Cathy Bossi, is a flight attendant in the Charlotte area. Bossi told WBTV that in August two female TSA agents took her to a private room for a private pat down, which Bossi said was quite aggressive. She said they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast, which is the breast where she had surgery.
“She put her full hand on my breast and said, ‘What is this?’” Bossi told the station. “And I said, ‘It’s my prosthesis because I’ve had breast cancer.’ And she said, ‘Well you’ll need to show me that.”
Bossi said she removed the prosthetic breast from her bra.
How humiliating! This woman should feel proud to be a cancer survivor and instead the TSA makes a mockery of her horrible ordeal.
"I did not take the name of the person at the time because it was just so horrific of an experience, I couldn't believe someone had done that to me," Bossi said. "I'm a flight attendant. I was just trying to get to work."
Rather than put Bossi through that kind of humiliation, couldn’t they have asked her to walk through a scanner? Also, as a flight attendant, it seems she should be given a doctor’s note to carry around.
According to Fox News, a TSA spokesperson told the station that agents aren't supposed to remove any prosthetics but are allowed to ask to see and touch any passenger's prosthetic. The agency said it will review the matter.
This pat down business is way out of hand – TSA should not be allowed to take people’s bodies into their own hands.
Do you feel this is going too far?
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