One of the problems with social networks like Twitter is that people use them far more for self-promotion than social networking.
A truly disturbing trend in this respect is the way people seek attention by making patently specious claims about TSA agents sexually assaulting them. The latest is model Bar Rafaeli who tweeted yesterday that the agent who gave her a patdown recently “left no doubt about her sexual preferences (sic).” Of course, the real story here is that Bar is having to resort to this for attention after being dumped by Leonardo DiCaprio.
But you’d be hard-pressed to find a single TSA agent who has been arrested for groping a passenger at the airport. And it’s an indication of how plainly contrived these claims are that you’d be just as hard-pressed to find a so-called victim who has even bothered to file a civil lawsuit against an agent for assault.
Truth be told, they are far more likely to steal your iPad than cop a feel.
Meanwhile, if an underwear bomber (male or female) were to get on board and blow a plane from the sky, these same complainers would be the first ones tweeting their self-righteous condemnation of TSA agents.
For the record folks, a proper, non-sexual patdown will invariably, indeed necessarily, entail touching around the breast/chest and crotch.
But think about it: what TSA agent in his orher right mind would try to fondle anybody sexually while doing this thankless job at the airport? They probably hate giving patdowns just as much as passengers hate receiving them.
And don’t get me started on the idiots who complain about being sexually violated by airport scanners.
Get over yourselves people! (Or don’t fly.)