Reuters photo caption: "Attorney…and her client…pose with a mannequin and nipple..." What?

[Lobster Martini]

(LM: Photo captions you don't see often: Attorney…and her client…pose with a mannequin and nipple...then there's the bra bomb...you don't hear about exploding brassieres every day...)

]LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman who claims she was ordered by federal airport screeners to remove her nipple rings with pliers demanded an apology from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Thursday.

Mandi Hamlin, 37, also called for an investigation into the February 24 incident in Lubbock, Texas, saying that snickering male agents violated TSA policy by forcing her to remove the jewelry.

"I felt surprised, embarrassed, humiliated, scared and angry," Hamlin told reporters at the offices of her Los Angeles attorney, Gloria Allred.

"This situation was totally out of control. I will not sit quietly. No one deserves to be treated this way."

The TSA, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security that was set up after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, said it was investigating the incident but that agents were trained to search people with piercings in "sensitive areas" with dignity and respect.

"TSA is well aware of terrorists' interest in hiding dangerous items in sensitive areas of the body, therefore we have a duty to the American public to resolve any alarm we discover," the agency said in a written statement.

The TSA said incidents of female terrorists hiding explosives in "sensitive areas" were on the rise and provided a picture of a "bra bomb" that was used in training its agents.


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(Link to full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/od_nm/jewelry_dc;_ylt=Ao7z8aIEOTSn39Hkg_wpvB6s0NUE)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. For 2 days in a row, my local NY NBC news had clips of the demonstration.

[flvegan]

2. Our handbasket just hit mach 1.

Whole country should be in hell fairly soon.

[depakid]

3. Oh no -it's Gloria Allred....

That woman just keeps turning up like a bad penny.