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<blockquote data-quote="C_Hallbert" data-source="post: 3947314" data-attributes="member: 42957"><p>About six years ago, my wife and I traveled to NYC, LaGuardia Airport from DFW for my Mother’s 89th BD. I was 70 y.o. at the time, stooped over with Rheumatoid Disease and walked with a crutch. At security, they wanted me to remove my f’ing shoes???!!! I asked for a chair and the anthropoid, female TSA Entity became visibly annoyed. Lesser primates can become irrational and antagonistic due to various unfathomable reasons. Perhaps it was already plagued with fleas, liver flukes and/or toxoplasmosis? It started jumping up and down and let out a primal alarm call. I think I heard the words, “….Special Screening ….” within it’s tirade of gibberish. My Grandson took a picture of me surrounded by this growing group of obviously hostile creatures. “NO PICTURES ALLOWED!”, one of them howled, “Who took that picture?” He wisely hid his cellular telephone in his pocket and assumed a disinterested expression. Needless to say, I was removed from the line under armed escort and placed in an antechamber where I was forced to strip to my underclothes and subjected to a search with gloved hands and finally an electronic explosives detector. I almost missed the flight. I honorably served this country in the USMC 1966 to 1970 and my community in Pittsburg County, OK for four years as a Reserve Deputy. This kind of treatment is unacceptable, unreasonable and unnecessary. I’ll never fly again. In fact, I would rather be flogged to death for a crime that I didn’t commit than to set foot in another Commercial Airliner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C_Hallbert, post: 3947314, member: 42957"] About six years ago, my wife and I traveled to NYC, LaGuardia Airport from DFW for my Mother’s 89th BD. I was 70 y.o. at the time, stooped over with Rheumatoid Disease and walked with a crutch. At security, they wanted me to remove my f’ing shoes???!!! I asked for a chair and the anthropoid, female TSA Entity became visibly annoyed. Lesser primates can become irrational and antagonistic due to various unfathomable reasons. Perhaps it was already plagued with fleas, liver flukes and/or toxoplasmosis? It started jumping up and down and let out a primal alarm call. I think I heard the words, “….Special Screening ….” within it’s tirade of gibberish. My Grandson took a picture of me surrounded by this growing group of obviously hostile creatures. “NO PICTURES ALLOWED!”, one of them howled, “Who took that picture?” He wisely hid his cellular telephone in his pocket and assumed a disinterested expression. Needless to say, I was removed from the line under armed escort and placed in an antechamber where I was forced to strip to my underclothes and subjected to a search with gloved hands and finally an electronic explosives detector. I almost missed the flight. I honorably served this country in the USMC 1966 to 1970 and my community in Pittsburg County, OK for four years as a Reserve Deputy. This kind of treatment is unacceptable, unreasonable and unnecessary. I’ll never fly again. In fact, I would rather be flogged to death for a crime that I didn’t commit than to set foot in another Commercial Airliner. [/QUOTE]
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