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WND HOMELAND INSECURITY
Airport screener 'roughs up'
woman, 83, in wheelchair
'I don't know if she thought my mom
had a bomb in her Depends or what'
Posted: April 2, 2006
4:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
An infuriated Denver woman has filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration after a security screener forced her 83-year-old mother to get out of her wheelchair and walk to a pre-flight screening area, despite doctor's orders not to stand and an orthopedic card saying she had a metal plate in her hip.
The incident at Denver International Airport occurred eight days ago when Sally Moon, her sister and a Frontier Airlines employee were transporting Bernice "Bea" Bogart to a special security screening area. Moon's sister, who did not have concourse clearance and the Frontier employee were left behind as Moon pushed her mother to the screening site.
Bogart, wheelchair bound since a 1999 fall that broke her hip and further disabled by breast cancer surgery in 1997 and a major stroke in 2004 that caused dementia, was under strict doctor's orders not to stand without assistance or her walker. She carried a special orthopedic card to alert airport security she had a metal plate in her hip.
Moon had been told by Frontier and TSA staff that screeners would not require Bogart to leave her chair for the security check, so she turned to put her mother's carry-on luggage through the x-ray device. When she turned back, she discovered her mother had been picked out for further screening and was out of her chair, "hobbling" through a glass-walled corridor.
"There were no grab bars," Moon told the Rocky Mountain News. "What I could see really was her fingers trying to hang onto a little ledge."
Moon says she instinctively reached out to assist her mother, fearing another fall and another broken hip.
"Don't touch her!" Moon says the screener warned.
Moon attempted to tell the young screener, a woman in her mid-to-late 20s, that her mother was under doctor's orders not to stand without her four-wheeled walker, but the screener shot back, "You'd better change your attitude. Or do you want me to make it so you don't fly today?"
These TSA employees are the ones with attitude problems.
Bogart, who is also hard of hearing, was allowed to sit briefly, but the screener soon instructed her to stand again and lift her arms, according to Moon. She then reportedly lifted Bogart's arms because the elderly woman couldn't, due to her earlier breast cancer surgery.
Moon says she was told to sit across the room "or else" when she continued to protest.
After the "prolonged search," the pair was cleared to continue to their gate and Moon put her "shocked" mother on the flight to Tennessee for a month's visit with Bogart's youngest daughter.
An angry Moon attempted to complain to Denver's TSA management, but was told to make her complaint to the national office. Supervisors would not tell her the name of the screener who had made boarding her mother so difficult.
"I don't know if she thought my mom had a bomb in her Depends or what," Moon said.
While Moon is still angry and cynical that TSA will do anything about her complaint, a Denver TSA spokeswoman said the agency expects a high degree of professionalism from screeners and Moon's complaint would be investigated. TSA's Office of Civil Rights will soon issue a response, she said.
"When we receive complaints, we take them very seriously, we investigate them and we address any personnel issues as appropriate," she said.
Bogart, now in Nashville, says she doesn't want to see anyone get in trouble.
"They were all kind except for that one girl. I thought she was a little harsh," she said. "She wouldn't let my daughter help me. And I have a hard time standing very long at a time at all."
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Have you flown anywhere lately?These TSA people know they can block anyone from flying that rubs them wrong or doesn't show them the respect they think they deserve.It's scary stuff.I've had to bite my tongue on more than one occaision. Thermit ,these folks are patronage workers,period.They owe their jobs and souls to the folks that put them there. Anyone not familiar with patronage workers need only research the late Mayor Daley of Chicago.He ruled that town with an iron fist.He had people on the city payroll that got paychecks every week, and their only job was to make sure the vote got out.Say Joe Pulaski was working for the Streets and Sanitation Dept.Joe only went in to pick up his pay check every week. He never went to work on a real job,in a real city truck.Every time an election was coming up Joe passed out literature on the Machine Candidates- aka -Cook County Democrats.Made phone calls of the registered voters in his area to make sure they were going to vote ,Joe would personally drive voters to the polling places to make sure they voted,than take them home or to the store or whatever.After the election Joe went about business as usual picking up his payroll check from Streets and Sanitation Dept They had a large pool of ghost-workers.Kinda like Tom DeLay.
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Don't hate me for this:
I know from security checks that I have had to conduct:
ANY person who comes up with metal MUST BE SEARCHED COMPLETLY in order to protect yourself and your fellow co-workers. I would have searched her too.
Sorry if that upsets you; but that is just how it is if you believe in self preservation. They are just doing the job they were hired to do. I would not let ANY metal through my station without it being checked out. That means these people are fulfilling their job descriptions.
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quote:
That means these people are fulfilling their job descriptions.
That is all fine and dandy.They still have attitude problems.Not too many were enrolled in any type of Dale Carnegie Courses. We can agree to disagree.
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Don't hate me for this:
Bhang, you speak from experience.Hate is such a strong word. Appreciate the heads up from someone that's been there,done that.
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