I’m tired of these mutha fucking tits…
Oh wait, no I’m not.
carry on.
Oh, come on. She could have had machine gun jubblies.
My thought is that the reason why the nipple rings had to come off is that with them on, the metal detectors could not distinguish between harmless metal rings and harmful other metal in the vicinity. If the nipple rings were removed, any other metal could be detected, and that’s what the guards really wanted to do.
No, that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it is entirely possible. Sort of like appearing pregnant while actually wearing a booster box for shoplifting.
I imagine she was sent back thru the metal detectors after removing the rings.
Now I’m starting to wonder what happens when they detect a metal implant or the slug from an old bullet wound.
“Well, ya see sir, there’s a bullet there from when I was a police officer and…what do you mean I have to take it out? Do I look like a surgeon to you?”
So . . . they thought she was hiding, as tdn suggested, machine guns under her nipples, and the rings were a decoy?
I don’t know how these metal detector things work, but they seem pretty body-part specific (that wand thing they wave over you after you step through the doorway thing). If they stripped her naked and the wand beeped only when they were over her breasts, I think it’d be safe to say that there’s nothing else there.
And why’d they let her keep her bellybutton ring then?
Cat Fight, did your friend ever file a complaint?
I’m not really sure why this is so horrible. I mean, she wasn’t a threat, but what is so distressing about removing the piercings?
How can we be this far in and have no linked pictures from “Mars Invades”? (I can’t link from work, sorry.)
Last time I crossed the border into the US, they took my grapefruit. My grapefruit! Can you imagine the outrage? It wasn’t even pierced!
(Yeah, I know, fruits/vegetable/wood have special rules.)
Probably this bit. It seems she was having problems getting them out.
This story was so much more titillating* before I saw a photo of the woman involved.
Coincidentally, a woman whom I’ve often thought could do with a good working over with a pair of pliers.**
- Don’t even start.
** Not really. Don’t even start.
Guys, this is a serious threat. Really, check it out!
And this is the reason why, if I ever fly to the States, I plan to put in a retainer.
I’d be both embarassed and extremely pissed if I had to take my piercing out behind a curtain in an airport.
These were pretty much permanently inserted- another story said she hadn’t taken them out since getting the piercings.
I suspect removing them with pliers was a tad uncomfortable.
If I read the OP right, she was being wanded after having passed through the metal detectors. She offered to show her breasts to the female officer(s), which would have proven she had no other metal on her person. This strikes me as a power play.
As others have said: what if it was a clit piercing? Or if she had been a male with a (shudder) Prince Albert?
This is not the first time the TSA has had a tit-related problem, though, if I recall correctly.
This probably didn’t help either:
If it isn’t a threat, then why should she have to remove them? Some person, puts on a security uniform and it goes to their heads. They need to be stopped. That guy needs to be fired. He is not keeping us safe, he is off on his own personal power trip that probably caused this woman to bleed from her nipples.
If they were simply hooked in, like earrings, I suspect there’d be a lot less outrage. But nipple rings are often rather permanently inserted.
OK, I realize that Inigo Montoya is kidding, but can someone explain to me why (probably in the next Austin Powers movie) explosive breast implants with nipple rings leading to the detonator are impossible?
Does ‘removed them with pliers’ mean that she had to yank them out and tear the nipple?!
A lot of body jewelry is very difficult to remove. And besides, why should she have to?
It’s such a miniscule amount of metal only the hand-held wands pick it up. And they can also pick up underwires. What if they had made her (or any other woman) remove her bra and go back through the machine? Same concept, just as invasive.
The whole thing strikes me as an overeager and underducated sercurity guard throwing his weight around.
Well, aside from the technical difficulties, modern plastic explosives all contain metallic elements to allow easier identification.
In any case, if you were going to go to the trouble of inserting explosives into a person, you could just as easily use a remote detonator- a cellular phone, for example, as in the 2004 Madrid bombings. The receiver implanted in the carrier would be no larger than an implanted defibrillator, which don’t usually set off metal detectors.
Isn’t that what the wands are for?