This blonde bombshell wearing just black lace, a pearl necklace and a white dog is Tammy Banovac, a retired surgeon on a wheelchair. She got almost naked while going through airport security and still got a pat down. Twice.
Dr Banovac always refuses to go through the metal detector. She has to use a metal wheelchair and that means that she always gets a pat down no matter what. Lately, she says she feels violated because the pat downs have become increasingly invasive during the last few months. “If it happened anywhere else, it would have been sexual assault,” she said to a local newspaper.
She was so angry with the situation that she decided to change things. On November 30, the 52-year-old arrived at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City en route to Phoenix, wearing just a trench coat. When it was time to pass through the check point, she took off her coat, stripping down to her black lace lingerie. She hoped that, by showing that she had nothing to hide, she would not be hand-searched.
Sadly for her, things got worse: The perspicacious TSA agents wanted her to go through the metal detector, anyway. When she understandably refused, they decided to give her a pat down.
At this point, the quick-witted TSA agents said they found traces of nitrate on her body. Banovac claimed that it was probably her medication or a result of a hunting day. However, since it’s obvious that the retired surgeon could be a secret Al-Qaeda terrorist carrying a bomb somewhere in her lace bra or panties, the astute TSA officials subjected her to a one-hour hand-search. Yes, one hour.
As a result, she missed her flight to Phoenix and had to return home.
But hold on, because it gets even more surreal: She returned the next day and the same thing happened. She got down to her lingerie and got a hand-search anyway. This time, however, she could make her flight on time.
If this is not an example of everything that is fucked up with the TSA, I don’t know what is. [USA Today and CBS]
JT...
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 6:18 PMThat was one freaky stare she gave the camera 0:37. Me thinks she might have a few screws loose.
RawPrawn
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 7:01 PMTSA is totally out of control. Thats what happens when you give small minded people a bit of power, they turn into total control freaks. I lived in the US about 20 years ago, when people had rights and freedom of speech, so much for their constitution. Though Tammy, like many others, is trying to make a stand against TSA rights, reality it is probably quiet futile until America has a quick dose of wake-the-fuck-up
Steve
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 8:51 PMShe has a really fake/creepy/plastic love robot vibe to her… 0:38, I’m getting Blade Runner flashbacks.
Danijel Markovic
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 12:19 AMthats is just low, yes it might be a secururity threat ,but who ever employs those people should be strip searched them selfs everyday,
james whatsit
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 1:23 AMfar out. what pervs. they probably hand searched her BECAUSE she got (almost) naked
FBI
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 2:18 AMThat is a Robot, its not real, i have seen it in person somewhere else…
Abhi Pai
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 4:36 AMI’ve also had a bad experience with them.
When I was 17, I sprained my ankle while in LA and had to get one of those tight lycra ankle brace supports. I should also mention that I’m Indian, and probably got targeted because of this. When I was departing LA, I went through the metal detector, and nothing happened. They used the wand on me. Nothing Happened. They gave me a pat down. Still nothing. After all that, they still somehow had the idea that I was hiding a bomb underneath my skin-tight ankle brace. I told them that it was incredibly painful and had swollen to twice its normal size, yet they forced me to rip it off anyway which hurt like crazy. I was a minor as well at the time, yet they were steadfast in their beliefs that I was a terrorist, even after all scans were inconclusive.
Nodeity
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 9:14 AMHeh heh,.. TSA .. Totally Stupid Assholes :}
Chris
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 11:12 AMIt’s fun to watch the decline of the United States. It’s a slow painful death that hopefully will not spread too far.
Mike
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM+1!!
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Friday, December 3, 2010 at 3:46 PMYeah, coz we’d *never* try to spend millions of dollars on censoring what our population can view on the Internet or anything.
Smoker
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 7:32 PMA lot of pressure is building up quickly, and a lot of the same stuff that fueled the 1989 Romanian revolution/government overthrow are showing up in America. I think it will end in civil war or a similar bloody conflict. They even have a precedent, since it took them a civil war to solve (among other things) that whole slavery thing.
Matt L
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 3:09 PMI think it’s funny too… The US have been in a constant state of shitting themselves since september 11, it’s ruining them… I must admit, us Aussies are in a constant state of shitting ourselves also, but thats because we’re too kick back to go to the shitter lol.