This gets my blood boiling. The woman had the proper documentation, is quite ill and they strip search her at that. Cant believe we have come to this point. Three years back I got pretty angry at the frisk search that was given to me. At the time I had a incisional hernia develop on my abs from a past operation where I donated a kidney to a friend. The agent frisked my bump like he was probing and I kept telling him that what it was. That was so humiliating to say the least. Felt terrible afterwards. I got that health issue fixed, but to me what I was dealing with was and should be a private issue, not for some dumbA$$ to probe and question me about something very personal. Quite frankly I advoid flying theses days because of the experience.
http://www.9news.com/news/article/27...s-feeding-tube
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Even though she was wearing a medical bracelet with a USB drive on it that contained notes from her doctor, TSA agents still searched her.
"They had physically stripped her and saw the tube coming out of her stomach, and they decided that they needed to check it for explosives, so they had to physically handle the tube," John Deaton said.
Besides handling the tube, agents swabbed it for bomb-making material, Melinda Deaton said.
Her husband said it put his wife at risk of infection.
