TSA denies making 95 year-old woman remove adult diaper

[catlover79]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...75Q6FU20110627

WASHINGTON | Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:14pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airport security officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport "did not require" a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper, the Transportation Security Administration said on Monday.

"While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," TSA Spokesman Greg Soule said in an email to Reuters.

"We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper."

Over the weekend, social media sites such as Twitter were ablaze with talk about the incident, including claims that the woman was suffering from Leukemia.

Jean Weber, the woman's daughter, said on CNN that TSA agents would not clear her mother because the diaper had a wet substance. Weber said her only options were to retrieve a new diaper from her luggage or to miss the flight.

Weber said that the agents did perform their jobs professionally.

The TSA said various options were provided to the woman and her daughter during a private screening, but declined to offer more details saying the agency wanted to respect the woman's privacy.

(Reporting by Wendell Marsh; Editing by Jerry Norton)

[Mr. Television]

Why anyone would fly anymore is beyond me?

[catlover79]

I know - we have drunk/cussing pilots, air traffic controllers asleep on the job or watching movies, security is a joke...in their own way, TSA and the airlines are almost as scary as terrorists!!!!!!

[Family Ties Forever!]

Wow, it's sad who they stop and scrutinize.

Hopefully they won't stop me when I fly later this year. I'll do what they ask though. It's just easier than missing a flight.

[catlover79]

It's just a mess - air travelling. No wonder more and more people are driving themselves on vacation!!

[comedyfreak]

I wouldn't fly if they paid me too, bunch of incompetant MORONS running TSA.

[old grouch]

Sometimes the way we treat the elderly is a crying shame. This lady deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, not like this. Also, the people in the article who refer to her bladder control devise as an 'adult diaper' showed bad taste.

[catlover79]

I'm sure that terminally ill 95-year-old women are a potential national security threat.

[Marvo301]

Originally Posted by catlover79

I'm sure that terminally ill 95-year-old women are a potential national security threat.

America spent millions of dollars, not to mention time and resources searching for weapons of mass destruction when the real threat was really incontinence? Something really doesn't add up here!

[catlover79]

You think they'd be hassling this poor woman if she was still alive???

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by catlover79

You think they'd be hassling this poor woman if she was still alive???

Depends

[tiredmike59]

While they were busy frisking that old lady, the guy wearing the turbin
and carrying an assault rifle and a ticking package waltzed right past.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by tiredmike59

While they were busy frisking that old lady, the guy wearing the turbin and carrying an assault rifle and a ticking package waltzed right past.

I don't think that actually happened, but I do get your point. We need to
concentrate on focusing on the right people who are terrorists. Of course,
if we did that, the ACLU would be up in arms(mock concern).

[catlover79]

Don't even get me started on the ACLU. NOT my favorite organization in the world, and that's putting it VERY mildly!!!

[comedyfreak]

It's time the ACLU were disbanded.