Nonnymus wrote:
>Marsha wrote:
>
>>
>> Musn't use profiling, now, should we?. My 74-year-old mother was pulled
>> over at the airport for a body check, on her very first flight. She
>> uses a cane
>
>Nope, applying any common sense to who gets searched would just be
>fodder for the civil rights creeps to begin to howl. By doing a body
>check on your 87 year old mother, making a wheelchair bound person
>submit to a very thorough body exam or examining the 8 year old child
>lets them actually ALSO go after the ones more likely to do damage.
>WIthout making all miserable, the more obvious types might feel badly
>about themselves.
I went through the Heathrow security (so not in the US) in a
wheelchair, and I had a money pouch under my clothing under my dress.
I had my day's medication in there, and it rattled. They wanted to
see what it was. I couldn't get to it without undressing, so they
took me to a booth so I could do that. My grandson thought it was a
riot. He kept saying - grandma had a cavity search. I thought it was
pretty funny myself.
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