THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON!!!

[SamTheEagle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21144171/?GT1=10450

Woman told to ditch bra to enter court

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector.

Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm.

"I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn't have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available," Plato said Wednesday. "They said, 'No.'

"I wasn't carrying a shank in my bra. If it's so dangerous, why did they give it back and let me put it on?"

Patrick McDonald, the U.S. Marshal in Boise, said appropriate security protocols were followed in the Sept. 20 matter, and guards suggested she simply remove the bra in her car outside, or find a restaurant bathroom.

"She's inflating it," McDonald said. "All of a sudden she just took it off. It wasn't anything we wanted to happen and it wasn't anything we asked for her to do. She did it so fast."

Plato, of Bonners Ferry, said she was parked on a busy street and wasn't familiar with downtown Coeur d'Alene businesses. So her husband held up his coat to shield her from the rest of the people in the courthouse lobby while she removed her bra underneath her shirt.

Not generally a security threat
Generally, McDonald said, undergarments aren't considered a danger to security.

"I don't think they're considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked," he said.

He declined to discuss other ways the federal courthouse guards could have screened Plato for weapons.

Plato wants the Marshals Service to apologize and stop forcing women to disrobe.

"It was very humiliating," her husband, Owen Plato, said. "They could have handled it with a much more professional attitude."

They can have my right to privacy, and my right to toothpaste on a carryon bag, but I draw the line at taking away underwire bras!

[Horatio Dimwitty]

That woman was busted.

[JUICE]

Originally Posted by Horatio Dimwitty

That woman was busted.

Busted or busty? I'm too lazy to click the link.

[Super Silver Haze]

"She's inflating it," McDonald said.

I think that's just the wire.

[crazcarl]

She probably was trying to shank someone too.

[Jack]

I fully support women not wearing bras. They need to do it for America.

[Uncle Howie]

Only if they're under 25

[Listeria]

Buncha shanks in Jersey.






And Idaho. And in Jerseys.

[Uncle Howie]

True dat.

[Samantha]

Originally Posted by Uncle Howie

Only if they're under 25

At 25 I wouldn't have had the guts to, but if I had been her today, I'd have removed my shirt and bra and walked through topless just to make them realize what idiots they were being.

"Do you feel more secure now? Or would you like to run the bra through the X-ray machine?"

"DOES EVERYONE FEEL MORE SECURE NOW???"

I love being the age I am now.

Happy Birthday to me!