It’s Friday night and I should be kicking back with a glass of wine after a long hard week, but this caught my eye and I had to pass it on:
A striptease of sorts at a federal courthouse has an Idaho woman fuming.
While passing through security, the woman was asked to remove her bra because it had an underwire. The undergarment set off a metal detector.
The woman says she had no choice but to have her husband shield her from others so she could take off her bra. However, the embarrassment did not end there.
“I had to place my bra on the conveyor belt to go through the X-ray machine,” says Lori Platto. “When I got to the end, well, one of the security officers said to me, ‘That’s a girl. Now you can go put it on.’ I was humiliated. I feel demeaned, because I was just… what was I to do?”
The U.S. Marshal’s office says its guards followed appropriate security protocol.
Considering how common underwire bras are, I have to wonder why this particular woman got asked to remove her bra; this can’t possible be the first time they’ve had a woman go through the metal detectors wearing an underwire bra. Were the guards looking for a a cheap thrill at her expense? If so, they should all be fired.
Hat tip, Peter at PR Differently.