Mom jailed for raging on TSA agents over daughter's pat down; didn't want girl's 'crotch grabbed'
Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 11:10 AM
An overprotective mom's trip from Nashville to Baltimore took a brief detour to the slammer.
Andrea Fornella Abbott, 41, was arrested at Nashville airport after she went wild on Transportation Security Administration agents for trying to give her daughter a pat down search.
Nashville police said Abbot, from Clarksville, Tenn., shouted and swore at TSA agents, saying she didn't want her young daughter to have her "crotch grabbed."
The trouble started on Saturday after Abbott refused to go through the airports body scanning device, The Tennessean reported.
"(Abbott) told me in a very stern voice with quite a bit of attitude that they were not going through that X-ray," security officer Sabrina Birge told police.
Birge said she told Abbott that the machine was "not an X-ray" and "10,000 times" safer than her cell phone.
"I still don't want someone to see our bodies naked," Abbott fumed, according to police.
After Abbott refused to cool her heels - she allegedly attempted to try to shoot video of the agents with her cell phone - cops cuffed her and hauled her off to jail.
She was released on bond on Saturday night. Cops didn't release her daughter's name or age.
Last month, the head of the TSA ordered agents to avoid giving children pat down searches.
The policy change came after several videos showing screeners searching kids went viral, sparking months of criticism.
The more people object vociferously and it gets reported, the more people will object until this outrage is stopped. When this stuff started, it was the final death blow to any myths about freedom in the US. You have no rights when you can be physically violated by authorities without probable cause. We became the new NAZI government when this stuff started.
Chuck
I agree. More and more of our rights are being stripped from us. Each is a warning sign. Like the frog in the tepid water, how close to boiling are we going to tolerate before we jump out?
Caution must be taken here, however, as a key to the plan is "order from chaos." They want us to revolt so they can enact martial law. As Max Igan says, a better strategy is non-participation. The house of cards would fall if the majority didn't support it.