Woman forced to remove nipple ring at airport

ircoha · 31-03-2008 07:27PM #1

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0328/us.html

Friday, 28 March 2008 17:46
A woman who was forced to remove her nipple rings with pliers before boarding a flight in Texas, has demanded an apology and said she wants the US government to investigate the incident.

Mandi Hamlin, a 37-year-old graphic artist from Dallas, said: 'It was just total humiliation in front of people I had no earthly idea who they were.'

Gloria Allred, Ms Hamlin's attorney, said the woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples. She added that the rings had been in her nipples for many years.

Ms Hamlin said she wanted a public apology and for the US Transportation Security Administration to investigate the incident, which happened in February as she was boarding a flight from Lubbock in Texas, to Dallas.

TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird said he was unaware of the nipple ring incident.

He said: 'I'd be really curious to know what this woman had in her nipples,' adding that he had 'never heard of any of our people having anyone remove something that sounds as small as a nipple ring.'

Ms Allred said the TSA's measure was 'cruel and unnecessary.'

She said: 'The last time that I checked, a nipple was not a dangerous weapon.'

Dudess · 31-03-2008 07:29PM

But it set off the metal detector and they hardly made her do it in front of the other passengers... etc.

AARRRGH · 31-03-2008 07:30PM

ircoha wrote: »

She said: 'The last time that I checked, a nipple was not a dangerous weapon.'

Tell that to the guy who lost an eye!

WizZard · 31-03-2008 07:32PM

Ha, you will be able to allow the TSA officers to have a visual inspection in future, instead of removing the piercing! :eek:
http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/lubbock.shtm

Tha Gopher · 31-03-2008 07:34PM

dublindude wrote: »

Tell that to the guy who lost an eye!

The japs eye?

Sweet jesus no!!! :eek:

The fact she had one in the first place shows she is not even mentally fit to board an aircraft without parental supervision anyway.

Wacker · 31-03-2008 07:38PM

I'd say she ran into one god-fearing redneck hick security officer who wanted to teach her a lesson in decency.
Good jobe she hadn't invested in clit-jewellery!*

*Actually, can I say that here? I'll edit if not.

Rb · 31-03-2008 07:54PM

Wacker wrote: »

I'd say she ran into one god-fearing redneck hick security officer who wanted to teach her a lesson in decency.
Good jobe she hadn't invested in clit-jewellery!*

*Actually, can I say that here? I'll edit if not.

Now you can't.

AARRRGH · 31-03-2008 08:00PM

If any of you, like me, were imagining a hip graphic designer chick, I'm sorry to break your boner:

A picture of Mandi Hamlin

connundrum · 31-03-2008 08:08PM

Serves her right. Bleedin hippie

Overheal · 31-03-2008 08:38PM

Dudess wrote: »

But it set off the metal detector and they hardly made her do it in front of the other passengers... etc.

Stateside metal detectors are calibrated to ridiculously high standard. Im convinced if you had an Iron Supplement for breakfast that you would be blocked from passing through security. It only takes as much metal as is in a 1 cent coin or your phones sim card to set it off.

Tbh I dont know why they didnt treat it like a medical implant, for instance.

Mossy Monk · 31-03-2008 09:36PM

Wacker wrote: »

I'd say she ran into one god-fearing redneck hick security officer who wanted to teach her a lesson in decency.
Good jobe she hadn't invested in clit-jewellery!*

*Actually, can I say that here? I'll edit if not.

I am disgusted.

randylonghorn · 31-03-2008 09:46PM

So what happens next time some guy tries to go through with a PA?

thelordofcheese · 31-03-2008 09:50PM

Overheal wrote: »

Tbh I dont know why they didnt treat it like a medical implant, for instance.

because the people running the security in american airports are backward-ass retarded?

AARRRGH · 31-03-2008 09:59PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

backward-ass

Backward ass?

They poop backwards?!

AckwelFoley · 31-03-2008 10:09PM

Bizzare.

Surely shes not the first person to pass thru there with a nipple ring?

andrew · 31-03-2008 10:14PM

I heard about this on Digg etc. and its impossible to give a feck. Boo hoo, cry me a river etc.

Steve · 31-03-2008 10:23PM

Overheal wrote: »

Stateside metal detectors are calibrated to ridiculously high standard. Im convinced if you had an Iron Supplement for breakfast that you would be blocked from passing through security. It only takes as much metal as is in a 1 cent coin or your phones sim card to set it off.

Tbh I dont know why they didnt treat it like a medical implant, for instance.

Depends on which ariport and which line you go through - they're all calibrated differenty.

They are generally calibrated to detect copper & copper alloys - i.e. bullets. I generally walk through with phone etc in my pocket and they don't go off.

She must have had some cheap ass nip-rings though, doesn't copper make youre skin go green? /needs a puking emoticon

lizardfudge · 01-04-2008 12:59AM

randylonghorn wrote: »

So what happens next time some guy tries to go through with a PA?

Yeah... and I never go anywhere without my Personal Assistant.

Manic Moran · 01-04-2008 01:21AM

TSA has since announced that they're going to change the rules a little bit.

NTM

Adam · 01-04-2008 01:36AM

Overheal wrote: »

Stateside metal detectors are calibrated to ridiculously high standard. Im convinced if you had an Iron Supplement for breakfast that you would be blocked from passing through security. It only takes as much metal as is in a 1 cent coin or your phones sim card to set it off.

Tbh I dont know why they didnt treat it like a medical implant, for instance.

You don't even need to go to the states, my ex girlfriends father had such high iron content in his blood he set off detectors travelling in mainland Europe, he had to get a doctors cert for future flights!

AckwelFoley · 01-04-2008 01:41AM

Mirror wrote: »

You don't even need to go to the states, my ex girlfriends father had such high iron content in his blood he set off detectors travelling in mainland Europe, he had to get a doctors cert for future flights!

Best one yet i seen was when i brought a box of Crunchies over to an american mate of mine for his kids..

He took a few with him when we were flying outof Manchester New Hampshire to go to Vegas for a few days, and there is some arabic writing on the side of this gold coloured wraper.. and hes a little dark skinned.

They stripped him down to his boxers.. broke open the crunchies smashed them up and then put them back in his case.

Most funny.

Adam · 01-04-2008 01:53AM

Poor bastard...though he should have bought mars bars, at least the fu(kers would have gotten messy in the process.

Woman forced to remove nipple ring at airport

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