Woman Forced To Remove Nipple Rings With Pliers At Texas Airport
 Friday, March 28th, 2008

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Yikes!  A woman in Lubbock, Texas was about to board a flight to Dallas when she was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).  37-year old Mandi Hamlin says she passed through the metal detector, but was then scanned with a wand version that beeped at her chest.  Mandi advised that she was wearing nipple rings, and claims she offered to show the female TSA agent her...jewelry...in private.  Instead, several male officers were reportedly called over, who said she would have to remove the hardware.

High-powered attorney Gloria Allred - who is a household face, if not name - is taking on Hamlin's case.  Attorney and client describe a situation where the woman had to remove her nipple piercings with a pair of pliers, was reduced to tears, and was even laughed at by some of the male TSA agents.

Wow.  I've had to remove a naval ring with pliers, and believe me, it can really hurt!  Really, really, really hurt!  As Allred said in a letter, "The skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove."  See?  I can't even imagine doing that on...okay, let's just watch the news conference, where Mandi takes a pair of pliers to a peach bra with nipple rings on it.

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