You just have to love it when court room security gets out of hand. What am I referring to, you ask? How about the Marshall Service in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho that told a woman she could not enter the court building when her underwire bra set off the metal detector? Now that is an overzealous security measure!
According to an article in the Spokesman Review, Lori Plato set off the metal detector as she was entering the courthouse for a hearing. The Marshall monitoring the metal detector stopped her and asked if she was wearing an underwire bra. When, Mrs. Plato replied that she was, the Marshall said, “You have to remove it.”
When Mrs. Plato asked if there was someplace private to remove the bra she was told there was not, but she could go to her car and remove it there. Um, because a car in a courthouse parking lot is so much more private. And, to add insult to injury, the Marshalls insisted that she allow her bra to go through the baggage screener for all to see!
What they should have done is provide a private changing room for cases such as this and then hand screened the bra in a private place.
Is it me or are things just getting way out of hand with anti-terrorism security measures? I mean I understand the need for security but, making people remove their undergarments is just ridiculous.
Why not take things one step further and make us all strip before entering a secured area? That way we can be sure that there are no hidden pockets or foreign materials being smuggled into secured areas.
Wait! What am I saying! There are some people I just do not want to see without clothes!
Guess we will just have to resign ourselves to being humiliated in the name of security and that our nation is slowly becoming a police state…
According to an article in the Spokesman Review, Lori Plato set off the metal detector as she was entering the courthouse for a hearing. The Marshall monitoring the metal detector stopped her and asked if she was wearing an underwire bra. When, Mrs. Plato replied that she was, the Marshall said, “You have to remove it.”
When Mrs. Plato asked if there was someplace private to remove the bra she was told there was not, but she could go to her car and remove it there. Um, because a car in a courthouse parking lot is so much more private. And, to add insult to injury, the Marshalls insisted that she allow her bra to go through the baggage screener for all to see!
What they should have done is provide a private changing room for cases such as this and then hand screened the bra in a private place.
Is it me or are things just getting way out of hand with anti-terrorism security measures? I mean I understand the need for security but, making people remove their undergarments is just ridiculous.
Why not take things one step further and make us all strip before entering a secured area? That way we can be sure that there are no hidden pockets or foreign materials being smuggled into secured areas.
Wait! What am I saying! There are some people I just do not want to see without clothes!
Guess we will just have to resign ourselves to being humiliated in the name of security and that our nation is slowly becoming a police state…
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