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June 26, 2011 01:39 am PDT

TSA asked 95 year old woman in a wheelchair in terminal stage of leukemia to remove adult diaper for pat-down

Jean Weber has filed a complaint with the TSA over the way they treated her mother prior to boarding a Northwest Florida Regional Airport-Michigan flight last weekend. Weber's mother is 95 years old and in the terminal stages of leukemia; she was flying to Michigan so as to be closer to her family in her final days. The woman, who is wheelchair bound and weighs 105 pounds, was made to remove her adult diaper during the pat-down procedure. Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search. "It's something I couldn't imagine happening on American soil," Weber said Friday. "Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this..." "I'm not one to make waves, but dadgummit, this is wrong. People need to know. Next time it could be you." Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search (via Reddit)...


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