“Three South Florida women, all elderly and with medical problems, say Transportation Security Administration officers made them take off their clothes during the screening process at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport last week,” says a report in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
“All three, one with a defibrillator, one with a colostomy bag and the other with diabetes, say they were forced to disrobe in a private room at the same terminal,” says the report written by Ken Kave.
“This was outrageous,” Lenore Zimmerman, 84, who winters in the Wynmoor Village condominium complex in Coconut Creek, told the newspaper on Monday. “For some reason, they decided I look like a terrorist.”
This is the main reason I avoid air travel. Nobody respects your rights or your stuff. The last time I flew, the flight attendant refused to let me keep my laptop at my seat and flung my companies laptop in the carry-on bag up in the overhead like it was a volley ball.