This Seems Kind Of Wrong of the Day: According to a formal complaint filed by Destin resident Jean Weber, TSA agents working security at Northwest Florida Regional Airport detained her 95-year-old wheelchair-bound, terminally ill mother, and forced her to remove her adult diaper which they said was impeding their pat-down search “because it was soiled.”
Weber said her mother, who is in “the final stages of her battle with leukemia,” was in the process of boarding a plane to Michigan to spend her remaining time with family members. “It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber told the Northwest Florida Daily News. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz told the Daily News she couldn’t comment on the specific case, but that wheelchairs “trigger certain protocols,” and that “[d]uring any part of the process, if there is an alarm, then we have to resolve that alarm.” “TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” Koshetz added.
A representative of Northwest Florida Regional responded to Weber’s complaint by telling her that the TSA agents followed search procedures. “[I]f you’re just following rules and regulations,” Weber said, “then the rules and regulations need to be changed.”
[nwfdailynews / image: weaselzippers.]
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