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Nipples ARE Terrorists

Travel · March 28, 2008

People are always asking me, “Why don’t you get your nipples pierced?” And my response will forever be the same…it’s too much of a hassle for traveling.


Read below.


Mar 27, 2008 8:29 PM (14 hrs ago)

By GREG RISLING, AP



LOS ANGELES (Map, News) – A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

“I wouldn’t wish this experience upon anyone,” Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. “My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way.”


Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.


The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin’s chest, the Dallas-area resident said.


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Roxane Martino

Roxane is the creator of "Well, hello," the co-founder of iProv, a marketing agency in the Little Rock, follows a whole food, plant-based vegan diet, is the wife of Dane, and the dog mom to Badgley, a hairless Chinese Crested.

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