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Woman: The TSA broke my ankle
A Washington state woman is on the hunt for a lawyer to go after the Transportation Security Administration, after screeners at the Pasco, Washington airport made her remove a foot brace she was wearing for a sprained ankle.Screeners at the airport not only made her remove the brace -- apparently against regulations -- but then made her balance on one foot, then the other.
The woman, Lona Dunlap, had a sprained left ankle and had been told to keep off it.
It seems that the screener asked her, essentially, to prove it, which is why Dunlap was forced to do the one leg shuffle.
Visiting two doctors after the incident, Dunlap claims her ankle now has two fractures.
"Then she made me lift up each foot individually and put all the weight on it. It was incredibly painful," Dunlap tells KEPR TV out of Pasco.
According to the TSA Web site, screening regulations do not require the removal of leg or foot braces, but rather screeners are required to swab those braces down for explosive traces.
A TSA spokesman out of Spokane told the television station that the agency is looking "seriously" into the matter, including reviewing video of the encounter.
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Reader Comments (Page 6 of 6)
raychmb Jan 8th 2010 5:50PM
While I didn't sue, and don't intend to, I was ordered to take off a full brace that went all the way down my back, stabilizing my neck, not more than 1 .5 weeks after rods were inplanted in my neck, and I'd had Brain surgery. I was even in a wheelchair at the time. They took away the cane that I needed, made me stand up, take the brace off, so that they could put it through the scanner, and then scanned me with hand wands. then they threw everything back at me, not even helping me get the brace back on or anything. The brace was titanium. they scanned my cane too, to make sure that it wasn't something else. they could SEE that I'd just had brain surgery, I even had a note from my surgeon, saying that I was able to fly. That stress was the LAST thing I needed. the pain from taking off the brace and having to stand without my cane made me cry the entire flight home. Thank God it was a short flight, and my family was waiting at the other airport.
Chickadee Jan 19th 2010 1:45AM
I can believe it. When going through security to leave for our honeymoon, TSA employees where consolidating bins at the end of the scanners. They dumped the bin containing our pocket contents and small items we were carrying onto the steel rollers. Everything fell through and we were not allowed to stop and pick it up. We grabbed what we could as we were pushed along. In the process we lost my new husband's ID and wedding band. Don't even get me started on the whole process of trying to get them back. Lets just say that he sat in the airport calling TSA to see if they were open, and the same lady "operator" was saying that no one was in yet. When he finally got an answer that someone was in, it turned out to be the same lady "operator" who kept telling him to wait.