Has anyone had a security check that involved examination or embarrassment?

Has anyone had to undergo a security check that involved some component of examination or embarrassment. For example maybe the lifting of a shirt or having to undergo an X-ray or ultrasound to look for internally concealed objects

Not personally, I only had to take my shoes off at the airport which was a bit surprising. A friend of mine had to strip to his underwear at a music festival because someone from the police suspected he was on drugs but he was just drunk.

Just a minor one, but a couple of years ago I set off the security scanner at an airport. When I was pulled over by the security guard, after frisking, he lifted my t-shirt and put his hand down the waistband of my boxers to search, getting a bit too close for comfort for my liking!

Oh yes I was given an invasive prison like strip and invasive cavity search looking for someone to do it again

I went through an airport with a zip up hoodie and a sports bra. The TSA clown told me I had to take off my jacket. He could totally tell I just had a bra on. I just shrugged and took it off and went through the security X-ray camera. I have a feeling he was hoping I’d make a big deal so he’d a have a reason to pat me down. I literally have zero patience for security theater.

I have a pacemaker and a butterfly thing in my shoulder that shows up so they always pat my arms down.

Oh yes I was given an invasive prison like strip and invasive cavity search looking for someone to do it again

That must have been a play search. I can't imagine TSA doing that.

Made the mistake of leaving my belt on at JFK….next thing I knew I was getting close and personal with a TSA agent. He went to the crotch area and felt up pretty good.

Those of us that have had knee replacements can not go through the metal detector without setting it off, so we always get that extra bit of attention. The last TSA idiot grabbed my legs at the crotch and squeezed all the way down to the foot on both legs . . in front of everyone else in line! Too bad I didn't have to fart while he was bent over behind me. That would have made my day.

Ally got me thinking …

If they're TSA, it's “security.”

If they aren't, it's “sexual assault?”

I've read the diamond miners, when they are going home on leave, are routinely given an x-ray exam and if anything suspicious is seen are required to drink a very powerful laxative and wait in a special room, kinda like a cell, for few hours with a special toilet until everything has been pood out The laxative makes them poo soup and the toilet has a grate so any diamonds in their GI tract fall through into a container below.

Likely, something similar is now done with drug “mules”.

Twice: Used to train Golden Retrievers for field tests and used start-up pistols. Once I went through TSA with a pocketful of blank cartridges - had to explain it off and dump them with not too much of a problem.

Another time I had leftover steak at a restaurant on a field trip with the dogs. I stole the steak knife so I could cut the leftover meat up for the dogs in the motel. Put the knife in my shaving kit and forgot about it. TSA picked it up on my next flight - the agent said that was the most creative story he had ever heard! Took the knife with no issue.

Never had trouble with my replacement ankle going through airport security - but it lit up going into the ER checkpoint at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Simple pat down by a cop/security guard to let me in. Hardcore area - several patients were handcuffed to chairs in the hallway once inside.

Not exactly the question, but my wife once was late to take notes for a lawyer at the county courthouse.

at the top of the stairs was a security station with two or three people backed up trying to get through the metal detector.

She ran up the stairs and slipped on the top stair and fell on her front. she was holding a stack of books in front of herself and when she fell her hands were pinned to the ground by the books. she said she knew her skirt was way above her waist and everyone was looking. she had to squirm to hank one arm free to push herself up.

When she got upright she was sooo humiliated, but had to just stand there waiting to get through the metal detector. she said she was so embarrassed because she had worn kinda sexy panties. she almost always wears plain cotton white panties. so having strangers see her in these lace was very humiliating for her.

i really wish i could have seen

I flew though Washington Dulles on my way to Minneapolis. I was wearing one tranquility atn. I dribble wet maybe. My groin area was flagged by the scanner and I was told that someone would have to pat me down. I was sooooo embarrassed when he raised my shirt up without warning and revealed to everyone within eye site that I was just wearing a diaper. He then said I would need further screening and to follow him. Once in a somewhat private area he called two other officers over and told me that in order for him to clear me, he need to swab my diaper for explosives. I was appalled and humiliated when I was told to remove my pants so he could conduct further inspection on my groin area, and swab my waist band, crotch and hands. After that came back negative, he informed me that in order to proceed to my gate I needed to change out of my diaper and put on a dry one before being re scanned by the scanner. Absolutely humiliating and degrading.Having tons of people see me wearing one and on top of that, being forced to strip to just my diaper In front of complete strangers that couldn't keep there hands off me and be treated like crap the entire time!

Speaking as an old timer in the security world and knows what real security is, TSA and Homeland Security is known as an oxymoron in my professional circles.

Not me but I travel a lot and was amazed and rather.. arousef by what I saw once… A woman before me very good looking mid 30s, dressed in a short dress but with leggings underneath.. Lots of commotion during the normal security search, but then they pulled into her into secondary. 2 female security agents escorted her into a private search room right by the security gates.,, which were not too far from a cafe, So I got thru security no problem and sat to get a coffee.. about 20 minutes later I see her and the 2 agents come back out.. but this time she was not wearing the leggings anymore. She looked rather frazzled and not happy… To this day I wonder what search they did!

Yes, one time I had a bulb enema syringe in my carry-on. The female security guard asked if I had a light bulb in my luggage. I told her it was a personal syringe and she waved me through. She didn't check.

In Sacramento California year 2004. We were returning to Texas after visiting family in the area. We were about 59 yrs. They took my wife in and massaged up her every crease to their heart's desire. She is 5' 4 inches. I am only 4 inches more than that, but they left me alone. No touchy feely at all. Neither of us set off an alarm, nor had items retained. I think they figured we would not squeal or fight, so they took her to fill their quota, maybe.

What's annoying is when they act like they're not used to women wearing underwire bras. I've never been taken to a separate room, it was always off to the side. When I get patted around my breast area, I'm always looking at the female agent. I never thought to look to see if anyone was staring. It happened quite a few times since 9/11. I'm glad I don't have to fly that much anymore.

@CassieST, over twenty years ago I was traveling with a female co-worker to do real estate property inspections in several states. The trip there was very uneventful, but on the way back (in this case from the Columbus, Ohio airport) we both had to go through the metal detector. I went through with no problems, but my co-worker set the damn thing off. Seems as though she was wearing an under-wire bra. Then right on the spot, in front of everyone waiting in line, the female TSA Agent told her that “I will need to hand frisk your upper torso”. Without thinking, I replied “Only if I can watch”. The female TSA Agent immediately turned bright red as my co-worker said “Sure, why not!” My co-worker never did get frisked.

When I was in the Navy during leave I flew home. On. my return flight the Security guards went bat-shit over my suitcase that had “NO BOMB-BAY” stickers plastered over it. That was the suitcase I used for TransPac flights that held my shaving kit etc. and things that shouldn't freeze in the Aircrafts unpressurized/un-heated Bomb-Bay where we carried a lot of luggage on non-operational flights.

They had to search all my bags right there in the screening area - and this was before 911!!!