Actress Brooke Mueller, who starred in a reality show with Paris Hilton and who has twin sons with ex-husband Charlie Sheen, missed her American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Miami on Sunday after what was reportedly an hour-long search by the TSA.
They strip-searched her more than once. They combed her hair looking for who knows what and kept sending her bags back and forth. It was harassment,” a family member told me.
TSA used to stand for ‘taking scissors away’ now it stands for ‘twisted sexual assualt’:
Ms. Mueller has a history of cocaine abuse, but says she has been sober for a year and “It’s not like they had just cause to treat me like a drug smuggler.” Of course the TSA’s purpose is not even to search people for drugs but to prevent terrorist attacks but the TSA of course needs some mission to justify itself since it admits there have been no attempts to hijack planes from the US and no active terrorist threats against aviation for years.
The TSA for its part says, “TSA pat-downs are conducted by officers of the same gender as the passenger” — which hasn’t stopped improper sexually-motivated pat downs. They add “TSA does not ask travelers to remove their clothing for pat-downs. TSA is focused on threats to aircraft security, and does not look for drugs.” Of course we know that TSA searches passengers happens to find drugs, detains passengers and contacts other law enforcement.
In any case, it’s unclear what threat to aircraft security (as opposed to a threat to the notion of good acting) the TSA was attempting to thwart via their searches.
American Airlines was apparently unable to accommodate her on a later flight the same day after her screening caused her to arrive at the gate past her departure, so she purchased a new ticket on Jetblue to Ft. Lauderdale.
(HT: Reid F.)
They felt up on his wife?
Seems a rather biased take on the situation, with the report from one side taken as unquestioned truth?
An hour? Sheesh.
Cheap shot; clickbait. We are only hearing one side of the purported story. TSA must have had reasonable cause to do a thorough search, either by passenger reactions or previous data on this passenger. What’s with the photo picture not showing a TSA person? TSA staff wear blue shirts, and what’s with the cartoon image of a TSA person with a gun? TSA folks don’t have firearms.
Gary, you can do better than this; your credibility has been blemished by this article.
@Pedro: They don’t need reasonable cause and they have absolute immunity, not qualified immunity like police.
The TSA checkpoint is about the only place you’d want to be considered ugly . That way they won’t want to grope you.
Lucky for me , I guess.
TSA body searches you for an hour they better offer you a cigarette afterwards and inquire as to whether it was good for you too.
“TSA used to stand for ‘taking scissors away’ ” When did it stand for that?