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And the request was not facilitated with proper personnel (women) or privacy. When she asked if she could use a restroom, they replied "no". No one expects psychic activity. They do expect respect and personal dignity to be given.

agreed. their fault for not having the proper personal and tools.
 
Pictures or it didn't happen! :D
How come no one made this joke already?
But on a serious note, they should of let her go into some kind of empty room or something. It reminds me of that bit in the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
 
Whilst it is true that most women can take off their bra without taking off their top, there are certain items of clothing for which this just isn't possible. For example, I'll give a medal to someone capable of doing this with a long sleeved shirt, and frankly, any long-sleeved top risks getting horribly stretched in such a manoeuvre.

I'm slim, but this only gets worse the fatter the woman is.

Just sayin'....
 
That's awesome.

I say what's the big deal. My wife (along with most women) can take her bra off without taking her shirt off.

These women are magic, I say. Witches!
:eek:

Just your wife? I can one-hand most bras through shirts in under a second, and I ain't even married.

...

...Which might be why I keep getting punched.
 
Some sage advice from an experienced voice. Maybe they thought (hoped) she was packing 38s.

Hmmm, if it was Dirty Harry's wife..."Eh uh, I know what you're thinking...but seeing how this is a 44 Magnum, and it could blow your head clean off" :p

On the other hand most women should be able to remove their bra without even taking their shirt off. If you had 7th grade gym glass then it's possible this art was perfected long ago. ;) She's an amateur!

Q me in on this ritual of 7th grade :). Can you also do that with your panties, a la Sharon Stone in Sliver? I always thought that was movie magic/exaggeration when she removed all of her undergarments at the restaurant, lol. Yeah, Youtube video please :D

Whilst it is true that most women can take off their bra without taking off their top, there are certain items of clothing for which this just isn't possible. For example, I'll give a medal to someone capable of doing this with a long sleeved shirt, and frankly, any long-sleeved top risks getting horribly stretched in such a manoeuvre.

I'm slim, but this only gets worse the fatter the woman is.

Just sayin'....

And if you were a sexual harassment lawyer you'd sue big time. Being a guy without much flexibility, I can't reach back to that portion of my back anyway I twist. I'm sure there are women who cannot easily reach their backs to unclasp a bra even shirt/blouseless, not just overweight/obesse women. Try to do that with someone who has disabilities, and you'll get a lawsuit for sure...think Elizabeth Taylor, or the Queen of England :eek:

Yep, pretty soon they'll have you walking through the scanner machines like they had in Total Recall (Sharon Stone was a hotarse be-otch in that one :D), then all the male/female screeners can get their gollies off vitually.
 
Sheesh.. men are so much more open-minded about being patted down by security guards of the opposite sex.. ;)

I was once passing through a security check in Toulouse airport coming back from a rugby trip, when I noticed a very attractive female security guard patting down the first guy in the queue. She was very quickly moved behind the counter to scan the bags as soon as they noticed dozens of male rugby fans stuffing coins, keys, and any random bits of metal into their trouser pockets...

Slightly OT, felt like sharing..
 
Thirded.

Sorry, I haven't yet met a polite TSA agent -

Forthed.

Once they tried to confiscate my eyebrow tweezers. Another time it was a tube of chapstick. Frankly, I don't feel any more or less safe flying on an airplane than I did before I had to run my rubber flip flops through an x-ray machine or put my toothpaste in my checked baggage.

It's all pretty darn stupid, if you ask me. One crazy ****** tries to light up his shoe, and now we all have to shuffle barefoot through a dirty airport. Good times.
 
I'm not sure if there was very much else they could have asked for. I mean, you can't magically scan someone to see whats in their bras... damn phony X-Ray Glasses ads...
 
THe whole security thing is stupid. The security guards tend to be about as intelligent as a pile of bricks (especially the TSA ones). I've been through security where a friend of mine was stopped for what were supposedly darts in his bag. These turned out to be rollerball fillings for his pen. The lady had to go present one to her superior before she would let us go. It even said on the filling that it was a filling, come on!

Also, situations like at Heathrow airport where there is now a "one-bag" policy through security. I had a suit bag and a backpack (which were no problem when I boarded a BA flight in Boston, but were a big problem as I transferred at Heathrow!). I had to either considate my bags or check one of them (was either a suit that was going to get ruined, or a backpack with a laptop...). I came up with the solution to wrap my suitbag around my backpack. And that was fine... I just shook my head and moved on... and immediatly after security split it up and happily continued on my way. Ridiculous.
 
I came up with the solution to wrap my suitbag around my backpack. And that was fine... I just shook my head and moved on... and immediatly after security split it up and happily continued on my way. Ridiculous.

Ah yes... when I fly up to Scotland, I take a small hand-baggage suitcase with my laptop in it, my plastic bag of toiletries and carry my handbag since it won't all quite fit into the suitcase. Since they insist on laptops and toiletries out at security, I can then fit the hand bag into that space until I'm through the check.

I had a surprisingly quick transit through the SFO security check yesterday aside from the officious woman at the entrance who scrutinised my passport, boarding pass and me for some time. Was gratified only to have the boarding pass checked once though rather than at 10 yard intervals.
 
Thirded.

Sorry, I haven't yet met a polite TSA agent - I was once flying through Miami International and the guard (a guy) asks me to dump the contents of my purse into one of those plastic bins after it went through the X-Ray. I do so, and he picks up a zippered pouch that I kept pantyliners in, opens it and proceeds to thumb through them (no gloves). He fans them out like a deck of cards, and asks me, "what are these?" I was so pissed off I told him they were a food processor, at which point a female agent finally came over and asked him why he was pawing through my pantyliners.

Last year I was going through Chicago and the TSA agents had an old lady, I mean seriously old, who needed a walker to stand up isolated next to the security checkpoint. She was crying because she needed her walker to stand, but they wouldn't let her have it because they were wanding her. Two other guards had to come over and hold her up by her arms while they wanded her.

This past March I was going through JFK International in NYC and having injured my ankle in the City I was walking with a metal cane. I put the cane down on the X-Ray machine, and the TSA agent told me that because I didn't tell them I had a cane (which I thought was pretty apparent), that after it went through the X-Ray I'd have to be wanded and it would need to be wiped for bomb materials. He also gave me a stern lecture about how I could have shut down the checkpoint for failing to alert the guards to my cane.

Oh, but I feel safer. I really do.

And yet, the last time I went through the metal detector, I accidentally left my keys and some change in my pocket and it didn't go off. What if that would've been a knife instead of my car keys and I was a terrorist rather than some guy just wanting to get on the plane and get home?

You can't bring soda on the plane. You can't bring toothpaste on the plane. You have to take your shoes off to go through security. Now it looks like you need to take your bra off too in order to board a plane. And god forbid you NEED a walker or a cane and you try to get that on the plane, all hell breaks loose. But a small pocket knife could probably make it through security no problem.

I sure do feel safer too :rolleyes:
 
Pictures or it didn't happen! :D
How come no one made this joke already?
But on a serious note, they should of let her go into some kind of empty room or something. It reminds me of that bit in the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Seen her picture may want to reconsider
 
And yet, the last time I went through the metal detector, I accidentally left my keys and some change in my pocket and it didn't go off. What if that would've been a knife instead of my car keys and I was a terrorist rather than some guy just wanting to get on the plane and get home?

You can't bring soda on the plane. You can't bring toothpaste on the plane. You have to take your shoes off to go through security. Now it looks like you need to take your bra off too in order to board a plane. And god forbid you NEED a walker or a cane and you try to get that on the plane, all hell breaks loose. But a small pocket knife could probably make it through security no problem.

I sure do feel safer too :rolleyes:

Problem with metal decetors is they can only pick up alloys with only 3 types of metal in them. Chances are you keys are all made out of a material that will not be picked up that or you do not have enough keys.

I have set off the metal dector more than once with something as simple as forgetting to take off my belt. (cell phone is my common one.)
 
Problem with metal decetors is they can only pick up alloys with only 3 types of metal in them. Chances are you keys are all made out of a material that will not be picked up that or you do not have enough keys.

I have set off the metal dector more than once with something as simple as forgetting to take off my belt. (cell phone is my common one.)

So what's stopping someone from making a weapon out of something that isn't one of those 3 alloys?
 
So what's stopping someone from making a weapon out of something that isn't one of those 3 alloys?
Wasn't that a James Bond movie where some gal fired off a bra shot at someone? :D Recoil must have been something she took to heart.
 
Wasn't that a James Bond movie where some gal fired off a bra shot at someone? :D Recoil must have been something she took to heart.

Oh you mean the Femme Bots from Austin Powers right before he does his mojo dance
 
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