Airport Security brings an 82yr old woman to tears

[coffeeFreak]

This is really sad. There is a second news video that follows the first. Mrs. Striker told the security agent she could not completely lift her arm up yet because she is still bothered by having a masectomy. They told her she would have to anyway...that's sickening.

Woman, 82, 'humiliated' by airport security
CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Thu. Jan. 13 2011 10:51 PM ET

An 82-year-old woman says she was humiliated by airport security who forced her to reveal her gel prosthesis during a recent public pat-down at Calgary's airport...

read more and watch news report: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110113/woman-to-launch-airport-complaint-110113/

(I tried to find the discussion on airport security to post this on but couldn't find it)

[robhynes]

None of this crap is going to end until society stands up and says "WE'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!". but of course that's never going to happen, we'll just follow along like the nice little sheep that we are

[grumpydigger]

saw the lady talking on the late news.

there just doesn't seem to be any common sense when it comes to airport security. has there ever been a case of an 82-year-old Canadian grandma trying to do a terrorist attack with her breast implant


Causing a cancer patient to do movements that put them into pain rates right up there with taking away her fingernail clippers.........................I feel so safe

[V-Rated]

I too saw the story on the late news. There really needs to be exceptions made for situations like that. Sounds like a power tripping security guard. My heart goes out to the 82 year old.

[Piecemaker]

Unbelievable. Is there no room for discretion and common sense!?
(Oh wait...maybe it was a young person in a realistic mask of an elderly person...it could happen!) :127:

[Homeownertoo]

Unbelievable. Is there no room for discretion and common sense!?

No, they are not allowed.

[ochema62]

When you pay peanuts you get monkeys. These people are morons with no common sense. Their actions are reprehensible.

[The Green Barbarian]

At some point the airlines have to pressure the government into doing something about how bad CATSA is at their job. Every one of these stories just makes people not want to fly, and without people to fly on planes, these chumps wouldn't have jobs. They always forget that. The airline industry is loaded with parasites - the airports (with their "AIF" to continue to expand airports and add more shopping malls to sell stuff at double the price you can buy it anywhere else) - NAV Canada (NAV Canada charge on your ticket) - Transport Canada - and of course now CATSA (the "security charge" on your ticket). Every one of these bureaucracies takes a cut off of your ticket, one way or another, yet they all operate like they have carte blanche to screw with passengers at their whim.

CATSA gets the most complaints and attention as they directly interact with passengers, and of course, they are the lowest paid and poorest trained. The other day Westjet's check-in was down, and so they were issuing manual hand-written boarding passes. So now we passengers all head to security with our hand-written passes and the CATSA idiot doing the "ticket check" turns us all back as these boarding passes "aren't approved" by them. I was so angry - I felt like saying "hey moron - what do you think we are doing here - like our hand-written boarding passes are some sort of terrorist plot? YOU FREAKING IDIOT!!" Luckily a supervisor came out and told the bozo to let everyone through, before things got crazy. It was a perfect example of an airline just trying to respond to a problem with a solution and a bureaucracy just making things far more difficult than they had to be, and *bleep* people off for no reason - the very people they depend on to fly so they have jobs. This is just plain stupidity, but until something changes, it will continue to happen.
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[Merry]

A couple of years ago I was flying out of Williams Lake and I had all my small liquid containers in a clear plastic bag that was zippered closed. The security people told me the bag had to be a certain size (I've forgotten the actual measurement, but it's mentioned on their website if you want to look it up). I told them it was my understanding that the bag could not be any bigger than the stated size (and mine was smaller), but they insisted it had to be exactly the size stated and made me take all my stuff out of the small bag and put it in a zip lock bag that they provided.

I had previously travelled through several airports using my own smaller bag with no problem (Brisbane, Singapore, and Vancouver), and I told them that. But to no avail, they made me change the bag.

When I got home, I looked up the regulation, and sure enough, it DID say the bag could be no larger than a certain size. It did NOT say it had to be that exact size. However, being right didn't help me at the time. I still had to do as they said, even though they obviously were not as familiar with the regulations as they ought to have been. Incidents such as these would not happen if these people were trained properly.

[WorkinHard]

The most effective airport security I can picture would be the exact opposite of what they do... Instead hand every passenger a gun. Then if one person decides they want to hijack the plane there'll be a hundred guns that will win. lol

[Merry]

The most effective airport security I can picture would be the exact opposite of what they do... Instead hand every passenger a gun. Then if one person decides they want to hijack the plane there'll be a hundred guns that will win. lol

You might have a difficult time dodging all the bullets!

[ILBT uh-huh]

You'll note it's called Swissair, not Swisscheeseair. There is a reason for that. Too much ventilation does bad things to airplanes.

[WorkinHard]

The most effective airport security I can picture would be the exact opposite of what they do... Instead hand every passenger a gun. Then if one person decides they want to hijack the plane there'll be a hundred guns that will win. lol

You might have a difficult time dodging all the bullets!

Seriously though, would you try to hijack the plane with your gun when you know there's a hundred other people with guns who want to land at the airport? lol