Friday, October 05, 2007

Ban the Bra!

I particularly like the first sentence in the last paragraph. Thanks to Scott Cupp for the link.

The Associated Press: Woman Told to Ditch Bra to Enter Court: "COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — 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.'"

2 comments:

Writeprocrastinator said...

"'She's inflating it,"

Didn't they used to have a bra that had a pump in it?

Unknown said...

Maybe that's what she was wearing.