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Courthouse security insists that woman remove her bra
"When I walked through [the metal detector], the gentleman said, 'Do you have an underwire bra on?'" She said yes, and he said she'd have to remove it. She took it off while her husband tried to shield her from view of others in the crowded lobby by holding up his coat. (Spokesman-Review | Associated Press)
October 5, 2007 | Permalink
Comments
It just gets more and more ridiculous every day.
Posted by: | Oct 5, 2007 1:21:55 PM
"I don't think they're considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked,"
If some security moron told me I'd have to take off my bra before going through a checkpoint, they'd see how fast a bra can turn into a weapon. I'd strangle the assclown with it.
But the woman and her man look SO PATHETIC in that picture. Someone would think the security guard shot their dog instead of told her she couldn't go through security.
Posted by: pnwgal | Oct 5, 2007 1:23:52 PM
I work in secure facilities often enough and you simply have to explain to the guards why they're wrong and you're right. I've never been wrong so far.
Posted by: DCer | Oct 5, 2007 1:35:01 PM
I'd say a good half, if not more, of women's bras have underwires. I've gone through airport and federal and local facility metal detectors with no problem. I've noticed some women having the wand passed over their chests if the detector beeped.
If this was such an issue you'd be hearing reports of it everyday in the media. Apparently, this Idaho (surprised it's not WI, TX or FL the usual suspects) courthouse is too effing podunk to deal with it. Either that, or my greater suspicion is that the idiot guards were bored and wanted to pick on and wind up the poor fat lady for their amusement. I'll bet they were talking about it at lunch and lauging about it over after work beers.
Posted by: andie | Oct 5, 2007 1:37:33 PM
If that had been me, I'd have turned it into the biggest burlesque show those assclamps had ever seen.
I once dropped my pants (in a very dramatic fashion) at the security area of the Las Vegas airport, all because a small buckle on my pants kept setting off the alarm (seven times). They kept sending me through the metal detector, back and forth, while my plane was about to take off. My solution worked. They let me go.
I'm somewhat surprised I'm allowed to fly anymore.
Posted by: Horton | Oct 5, 2007 1:46:36 PM
That must have been some freaking underwire.
On the other hand, the very young, very blond, very pretty, not much more on than a smile, lady in front of me at LAX got a good deal of attention from security.
The balding fat guy in the slightly overripe Tshirt (and pants) got a wave through.
Maybe he was Rush Limbaugh in disguise.
Posted by: NellAgain | Oct 5, 2007 1:48:54 PM
in the picture those people look like someone just ran over there grandmother, set fire to their cat, and when they got home and ordered some pizza, it came with a big curly hair on top.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 5, 2007 2:06:00 PM
I'm sure the guard only meant it in a Platonic way.
Posted by: Me | Oct 5, 2007 2:09:58 PM
I got a special search going through airport security while wearing an under wire bra. Though I had a woman doing it, I was still in public while it was occurring. It happened to be slow, so all the security guys seemed to have to watch the whole thing, with little smirks on their faces.
I didn't realize I could request a private area until later.
It was rather embarrassing, but I just rolled with it. While Standing there arms, out, in my socks while the woman waved a wand all over me, I made a point to make eye contact with every single security guy watching all this and widened my eyes ever so slightly in that " What are you looking at?" expression.
That worked well, actually.
However, all was well, the woman was very professional and polite, and I was civil and agreeable. No big deal.
Excepting for a few looky loos...
Posted by: elaine | Oct 5, 2007 2:12:11 PM
I'm a lawyer in Texas (how many strikes is THAT against me?). When they first installed metal detectors in the courthouse where I practice in the early 90's, it was set to such a sensitive level that my underwire bra would set it off every single time I came through (never been a problem in airports though). Then they would have to hand wand me and get the incriminating beep when they passed it over my chest. However, nobody every asked me to remove my bra. I got to know the security guards pretty well and we would all get a pretty good laugh over it.
Posted by: tiacheryl | Oct 5, 2007 2:20:33 PM
Remove my bra???!!!!!!!! NO!!!!! and she should not have been required to remove hers. That is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard of. Suggesting that she go out to her car for privacy?? Then they would arrest her for indecent exposure.
Stupid stupid stupid.
Posted by: ssarkies | Oct 5, 2007 2:28:17 PM
I hear laughter reverberating down the mountains of Pakistan.
Posted by: debilsadvocado | Oct 5, 2007 2:51:21 PM
excuse me sir, do you by any chance have a metal plate in your head? um yes i do. well I'm sorry you keep setting off the metal detector, I'm afraid you're going to have to remove it. tada more bullshit from idiots who just want to strut around like the king rooster, when all they really are is a bunch of twits
Posted by: Dretty Prucking Funk | Oct 5, 2007 3:09:53 PM
The terrorists have won.
Posted by: Tim | Oct 5, 2007 3:18:00 PM
Horton gets the Guffaw of the Day Award...and honorable mention for the term "assclamps".
Posted by: pnwgal | Oct 5, 2007 3:43:49 PM
I can remove a womans bra from under her shirt with one hand. Her husband clearly lacks some mad skills.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Oct 5, 2007 4:00:24 PM
Hey this happened just 45 miles south from me. Coeur D'Alene isn't some podunk town. It is really quite progressive,current circumstances withheld.
Bonners Ferry is 45 miles North. Now that town IS podunk but quaint in its own Indian Casino kinda way.
Now, guess where I'm at?(like yall give a sh*t)
Posted by: yucca | Oct 5, 2007 4:01:35 PM
BOOBIES!!! We get to look at BOOBIES!!
Posted by: Lisa | Oct 5, 2007 4:02:54 PM
Bet if it was an underwire jockstrap (ok, farfetched, but roll with it...) they woulda let 'em thru...
Posted by: oldewave | Oct 5, 2007 4:13:58 PM
A few weeks ago I came back from a week in Sweden where me and the husband were visiting his family. Getting out of the USA was no problem at all. Coming back in, strangely enough was. I wore the same bra (it had been washed) and belt coming back. They apparently set off the metal detectors in the Swedish airport. The woman then waved the metal detecting wand over me and patted me down, including my breasts which was pretty weird. Anyway she waved me through so I thought everything was fine. Then at passport control the woman that let me through was giving me really weird looks. Finally when I went through the line to actually board the plane I was pulled aside and taken behind a screen by some security guard. She waved the wand over me, rifled through my bag (unraveling half my socks), I was made to remove my shoes and my belt, then once again basically frisked. She also asked why I had been in Sweden. Upon finding no bombs or giant quantities of weed (I don't know WTF they thought the problem was), I was allowed to board the plane while these southern hicks glared at me suspiciously. They had crazy thick accents. Them wondering around Stockholm must have been pretty amusing.
If I had been asked to remove my bra I think I'd have started crying. Being treated like some sort of criminal for no good reason really is pretty upsetting. Next time I travel no underwires and belts!
Posted by: NAMELESS HO | Oct 5, 2007 4:23:36 PM
Next time I travel I just shan't wear a bra. Teach them to pick on my bra. They're nothing more than medieval torture devices anyways.
Free the ta-tas! Free the ta-tas!
Posted by: bitsy | Oct 5, 2007 4:33:29 PM
You better believe that demand would have been followed by a show so raunchy it would shut down the internets after being uploaded to youtube.
My thinking on this is, once the fuss over the bra had been made, my dignity would already be in tatters, so what the hell am I hiding? Bonus for me: they'd think twice about pulling that stunt again. At least with me. Nobody wants to see a chubby chick's ta-tas flapping free more than once.
Unless they're all drunk, which is another issue altogether.
Posted by: Soo | Oct 5, 2007 4:59:52 PM
Security guards in Idaho get very little action, and this is how they make up for it.
Posted by: Martin | Oct 5, 2007 5:03:33 PM
this just plain S*cks.........I'm a "DD" you bet there is under wire there..........this is just wrong...
Posted by: midwesterngirlonherown | Oct 5, 2007 7:49:52 PM
My man and I were going to colorado, we ride Harleys....His boots , belt, button fly jeans all were under scrutiny.....now my bra...I think, all shoud fly in speed-do's and flip flops....let the libs deal with the ramifications
Posted by: midwesterngirlonherown | Oct 5, 2007 7:54:50 PM
