TSA agents save us from a 5 foot 1, 74-year-old Holocaust survivor grandmother

Source: New York Post

A 74-year-old Holocaust survivor on her way to Rockland County to visit her family for Passover was arrested at a Florida airport for shoving a cop, authorities said yesterday.

But the 5-foot-1 granny said she was manhandled by security.

"They were pulling me and they were pushing me and before I knew it, I had cuffs on my hands," Elena Reichman said.

The grandmother of nine told TSA agents a wad of cash secured with a safety pin inside her pants triggered the alarm.

"I told them I would have to take my pants halfway off to take out the pins," she said.

Reichman was then escorted to a room, where she shoved a cop brought in to calm her down, according to her arrest report.

But she claimed cops treated her roughly.

"I fell on my left knee, Reichman said. "I said, 'I can't walk so fast. I'm not so young like you.' "




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makes no sense to me. And to add to the problem, these agents are poorly trained.

we are germany.. 1930s

One day when at the airport watching the TSA agents harass a mentally handicapped man and his mother, I realized that the goal of all this is to get us used to waiting in lines like sheep heading to the slaughter.

throw the book at her. HOW DARE SHE HIDE MONEY!?! Only terra-sts HIDE MONEY! She prolly hid tissues in her purse, and tissue make a great detonating device.

I had tears. Everyone was sewing money and jewelry into their clothes as they tried to escape the Nazis. Maybe she knows something we don't.

"Never own anything you can't jump over a fence with."

Gil never bought a car, and rented an apartment, although he made a good living and could afford both a car and a house, easily.

Old habits die hard.

We're so scared we're roughing up old ladies.

waste their time, money, effort and lives to terrorize us. We do it for them. OUr government has created a climate of fear that has made the terrorist irrelevant.

Be very afraid!

I came through Chicago yesterday. I was sick with food poisoning and exhausted from a 15 hour flight. The clowns there were rude and arrogant. I think the whole TSA thing is a stupid.....if Bush and Rice had bothered to pay attention to the intel warnings, there'd be no reason for millions of Americans to be treated as suspected terrorists every day.

to channel to terrorists.

:sarcasm:

What sense does it make to force an 80 year old woman in a wheel chair to throw away the TCBY yogurt she bought 10 feet from the security line - then feel up and down her spine, for what? It is simply the path of least resistance for these workers - TSA agents must have to meet a quota for random search.

Grab this woman's family, bring them down to the station and take the arresting officer inside a windowless room and cuff his hands and ankles together. Then give all of her family members a nightstick tell them "You have five minutes, make'em count". Problem solved.

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disbands the TSA on his or her first day in office. TSA is a sad joke and a blight on travel and liberty. Two years ago I was flying down to Orlando with my then 3 year old daughter to attend a family wedding. I got randomly picked for extra security searching at BWI airport. I suspect that the agent who did so, thought that my daughter, who is Chinese, was with the Asian family in front of me, because when he motioned me to go to the extra security area and I took her hand, he was visibly annoyed. The agent told me to face a wall and assume the classic searchee position. The problem was I could not see my daughter who, as so many toddlers will, had decided to walk away. When I realized that she was not at my side, I became frantic and twisted my head around to locate her. The agent searching me got very nasty and told me to stop moving immediately. I didn't and in fact left to grab my daughter who was walking out of the area, with none of the 6 or 7 TSA agents standing around the area and not working, did nothing about. The TSA agent followed me (we are talking roughly 8 feet) to tell me that I had to return immediately or else I would be sorry. I grabbed my daughter and walked back to the wall. The agent then decided that she didn't want me there, but that I should go through the metal detector again. My daughter happily followed me through, with the agent screaming that she didn't want the damned kid to go through again. The agents seemed unhappy that they didn't find anything to use to deny me access to our plane flight.