Woman Rolls Through TSA Screening in Bra, Panties, and Wheelchair
- Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:08pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Imagine the shock on the TSA agents’ faces when Tammy Banovac showed up for her flight on Tuesday in Oklahoma wearing only her bra and panties and sitting in a wheelchair. Now imagine the look on their faces when Banovac failed her screening because nitrates, used in bomb-making, were found on her wheelchair.
That’s exactly what happened in Oklahoma City yesterday.
Undeterred, Banovac rolled up once again to a TSA screening checkpoint this morning wearing her black undergarments — this time, however, no nitrates kept her from catching a 7 a.m. flight with her dog to Phoenix:
Banovac told NewsOK she chose to wear her underwear because of an unpleasant experience two weeks ago at airport security. She is typically hand-searched at airports because she uses a wheelchair, she said, and she felt violated by the more invasive searches employed at airports recently.


















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commonsenseguy
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:53pmi am confused, you arrest a man for stripping down to his boxers,but not her. what is the difference? okay, besides that!!! it seems that if you show up half naked it is okay, but if you take off your clothes to be searched it is a crime. welcome to the new way of governing, we can change the rules any time we want . this is what you call a double standard and George Sorros would be proud. WAKE UP PEOPLE THIS IS A SET UP!!!!!!!
Report Post »1776Federalist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:24pmIf you had been following all of the negative reports from the last two weeks, you would know that the TSA has been changing the rules, day to day, location to location, and even for different situations. A mother with breast milk pumped for her baby showed the TSA agent their own regulations about the screening and bringing it on board, and they said they didn’t care. they weren’t going to follow their own policies. They made her pour it into smaller containers and then they irradiated it. She missed her flight home.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:53pmWhat an attention whore. Is it even legal to go walking around in public in your underwear?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:09pmyes it is same as a swim suit unless it is see thru, or not of a certain size the rule for swimsuits would apply, but since im not a girl, not really sure what the parameters are specifically lol any cuties out there want to show me?
Report Post »halfabrain
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:40pmBMartin1776 “Pls dont attack the TSO’s they are only doing their jobs”
Do the agents that are responsible for carrying out these searches realize they are unconstitutional searches? Sorry, but I for one believe they should be the first ones to stand and say “it isn’t right and I am not going to do it.”
Report Post »ressex
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 7:13pmHalfabrain, I agree. In the military, we were told not to follow unlawful orders, or you’d be in trouble along with the person that gave them possibly. If I were TSA I’d refuse to do these 4th amendment violations to US Citizens.
…and you watch what the ALF-CIO does when they union-ize the TSA… they will change the rules in our favor and claim what heros they are… and all the sheeple will cheer… and the unions will control our rights even more. The Federal Gov’t is working FOR the Unions (bosses) now, not the people… And this looks like an Overton Window does it not??? REFUSE THE SEARCHES AND THE NAKED SCANNER!!! They will tell you you can’t fly unless you do what they say, and maybe delay until you miss your flight, but they CANNOT make you give up your 4th amendment rights! Not yet anyway… DON‘T let them naked scan you and yours and certainly don’t let them lay a finger on you or your children for God sake…!!! Go striaght to the airlines and ask for the manager and file a complaint with them. If the airlines tells you to go through the violation/sexual assults, call the sheriff and complain about TSA AND the Airline, and file charges. Wouldn’t that make the airline an accomplice? If everyone refused to take these violations on site, and I mean everyone, then how long do you think the airlines will put up with it??? They will lose millions.
Sexual assault is defined on http://www.attorneysearchnetwork.com as “any sexual activity such as intercourse, penetration, touching, or any other act that is nonconsensual.” – Key word is “Nonconsensual” so, if you allow them, it’s not assult of any type, so don’t give them permission. …and if they touch you, it’s assult. If they assult you, file charges with the local Sheriff.
Report Post »Geary
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 12:08amUnfortunately, they are not people, they ARE the government.(Just look at the badge!) The Nuremberg defense didn‘t work then and it doesn’t work now.
Report Post »NO_POTTERSVILLE
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:38pmI wonder if she had any dollar bills stuffed in her panties by the TSA?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:28pmInsert cigar here…………
Report Post »Paul G
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:34pmIf I click to ‘watch’ this video…will my puter start ‘beeping?
Report Post »pittsburghjohn
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:33pmhow do we know that the TSA is not carrying a weapon should we pat them down
Report Post »inferno
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:28pmQuestion…Did the wheel chair that showed a trace of nitrates belong to the airport ?
Report Post »If so, how did the last person who used it get on a plane ?
Bevaboo
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:20pmPeople who use wheelchairs in their everyday life generally don’t use airport chairs. It would be kind of like leaving your own prosthetic leg at home, using a loaner at the airport, and then how would you get around once you got to your destination?
Report Post »James83940
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:25pmWow could she be any more robotic? Freaky. The blank look on her face as she moved slightly from side to side is just weird…creepy.
Report Post »BMightyOne
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:12amI thought the exact same thing – in fact, when I was watching, it seemed like she is a robot. I am glad I am not the only one…
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:25pmThis is Hope and Change.
Report Post »PsyopJedi
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:25pmNice bra.
Report Post »Fox
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:24pmI understand her point, but I fear people are now using this TSA situation to find 15 minutes of fame. Gals and guys walkin’ through the airports in speedos and bikinis… meh. I think there are better ways to protest the TSA which don’t draw so much attention to yourself and your mega-hot bod. Come on guys. Let’s be serious here.
Report Post »1776Federalist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:16pmThink about it, She is seriously trying to avoid having her genitalia touched. I feel sorry for her and other handicapped people.
Report Post »Fox
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:48pm@1776FEDERALIST — She seriously may want to avoid having her genitalia touched (who doesn’t?), but this is still a seriously silly thing to do. I‘m supposed to believe that she’d rather go through the highly public airport wearing nothing but a bra and panties? She may not want any hands on her, but she definitely doesn’t mind having all those eyes on her.
I have sympathy for handicaps as well, and I also have sympathy for everyone who’s been inappropriately groped at the airport. However, I think showing up at the airport virtually naked does nothing constructive. Just my opinion. I can’t help but think this is more of a stunt for attention, rather than change – and it’s going to encourage more inappropriate behavior when folks realize this kind of thing will get you on TV or other media outlets.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:19pmWhat a bobble head. Look at her, she has got to be stoned. A stripper, what a nasty thing, yuck.
Report Post »code green
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:27pmThat isn’t a kind thing to say.She is probably (if you look at her face) someones grandma.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:29pmI bet when she peeled herself off that seat it left stripes on her arse. They then had to dispose of the chair. Contaminated. ( had to do spell check on that word arse)
UlyssesP
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 5:00pmWhen you get to the top of your mountain, please JUMP OFF!
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:30pmDear ULYSSESP,
Report Post »The lord will help you with your porn problems, talk with your wife.
MrObvious
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:00amJumping to assumptions much?
Maybe we should rename the T S A to T & A.
People are doing this sort of thing, now, in droves.
Next time I fly, if they haven’t changed policies by then, I will may decide to dawn a bathing suit and a tee-shirt, just in case, especially now that we know the x-ray boxes are not as safe as promised; although, I may just time my position in line based on their 1 out of 10 random selection criteria.
What a joke the whole process has become.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:18pmHer way of saying, “So THERE”? Just sayin’…..
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:18pmGod bless We The People!!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:18pmI thought dogs had to be in a crate?
Report Post »katy the mean old lady
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:56pmService dogs can go anywhere.
Report Post »zagfan
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:17pmI don’t blame her! People are getting sick of sexual assault for the privileged of paying for a ticket to fly.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:17pmHAhahahahahaa !!! But why was the guy told to stop filming ??
Report Post »FedUP
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:17pmBut why was traces of nitrates found on her wheelchair?
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:05pmlawn fertilizer is primarily nitrates, and this is the season for fertilizer. its freakin everywhere this time of year. all it takes is rolling that chair across a lawn, or a sidewalk that has been sprayed, or those little pellets that are everywhere when you have a lawn company take care of a lawn. found in many apartment complexes. (i would know i have them do our lawn at my complex once a month with fert. and most complexes and businesses do to
tsa looking for nitrates is like looking for a sidewalk in new york city
Report Post »1776Federalist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:13pmFertilizer, medicines, hot dogs and other normal items have nitrates in them. They just assume it has to be explosives. Kind of like the ridiculous zero tolerance policy gaffs at our schools (a student expelled for bringing a dull butter knife when she accidentally grabbed her Mom’s lunchbag).
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:17pmgood for her.. wonder what happened with her wheelcheer before?? That’s a good story I bet..
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:16pmI don’t blame oeople for protesting against these perverted searches, but, there are kids at the airport. I know the underwear shows about the same amount of skin as a swimsuit but … The makeup and thong don’t sit right this feels more like showing off then protesting…and there are kids there.
Report Post »1776Federalist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:56pmSo you think she should be okay with being sexually assaulted? That is what the groping would be called anywhere else in the country.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:10pmNo I don’t think any of us should be OK with this assault. Maybe you like your kids exposed to middle aged women in thong underwear and black bras while going about thier lives but I don’t. You are so concerned with HER that you don’t care if she is making other people uncomfortable with her display. I have rights too, not just the half naked woman.
Report Post »TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:01pmHey… Kate..
Report Post »Where you point your head and your eyes is your choice. Remember choice? Treasure it.
Egad
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 7:51pmAmother takes her little daughter Suzie to the park, then settles down to read her book, a few seconds later, she looks up to see Little Suzie and Little Johnny with their hands in each others crotch. Shocked, she yells “What are you doing?“ The children look up and proudly say ”We are playing airport”.
Report Post »Egad
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 7:54pmA mother takes her little daughter Suzie to the park to play, while she relaxes and reads her book. A few seconds later, she looks up to see little Suzie and Littler Johnny with their hands in each others crotch. Shocked, she yells “What are you doing?” The kids look up and proudly announce that they are playing airport.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:05pmWell, if you think the kids is gonna be shocked by a woman in bra & panties, the poor little tyke will need a lifetime of therapy after having some big, hairy TSA goon putting their hands in the kid’s own groin and fondling their “junk”.
Sort of seems similar to a mother in an old west town in the late 1800s complaining that the town needs to do a better job of cleaning up the horse manure in the streets so as not to be offended when she and the little ones go to the town square to watch a lynching.
Just seems wrong to complain about kids seeing someone in a reduced state of attire when the parent is about to allow a stranger to do “bad touching” and/or even undress the child. It would seem just wrong to have a child there under either circumstances. I would think the underwear-wearing fellow-flyers would be about the least offensive thing going on here.
Just sayin’…
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:15pmNice!!!!
Report Post »letonagasi
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:13pmThis is great. went to the Airport to get felt up and all I got was a crappy T-Shirt
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:06pmI wonder what they would say if someone had an erection????
“what’s that?“ ”what’s in there?” would they still conduct a strip search, and if so, how would it end up? Probably still not let him fly, thinking it would be a dangerous weapon. I may take some viagra before I go thru the security line.
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:44pm@Silentwatcher who asked “How would it end up?”
Report Post »Umm! It would end UP.
MidAmerican
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:11pmWhat in the world can I say????????? lolol
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:10pmLonnie Anderson ?
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:45pmI’m curios , how does she keep her legs in shape like that if she doesn’t walk ??
Report Post »Never mind I probably will blush if I hear the answer..
UlyssesP
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 4:59pmThey actually look kind of thin. I wouldn’t call them in shape. I see no tone.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:09pmGo girl, go. These TSA lunatic KGB needs to be stopped at all means legally allowed.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:14pmGod bless her for her stand against Big Brother.
It may be 26 years late, but 1984 is here. And it wasn’t the Right that brought it about, afterall.
Go figure.
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:19pmNo, this is all about attention. It says she typically gets hand searched, this is not out of her comfort zone and she knows it, she wants attention.
RightWrite
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:20pmDid the gay woman TSA agent have a cigarette after the search?
@leftfighter
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:23pmNow, I don’t know why YouTube called her a stripper. Yeah, she’s stripped down for the screening, but I doubt she’s an actual stripper.
Then again, maybe she is. How do you figure she does her pole routine? The pic’s grainy, but she looks decent enough to be one, and you can see a lot of crazy looking things onstage at a strip club on Tuesday afternoon. Just sayin’.
Kidding, folks! ;-)
Report Post »SoWhatsNew81
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:42pmYes, MRLOGAN3, because if you are typically hand-searched then it must be in your comfort zone! Or if you’re typically, hit, groped, berated, etc. As long as it happens regularly, then you must be okay with it! :)
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:42pmWhat is she doing with a dog.It’s a while since I flew are they letting dogs inside the planes?
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:44pmTSA Agent-
Report Post »“Where is that dollar… oh where did I put it… Oh, wait. I don’t need to give her a dollar, I get paid to do this…”
1776Federalist
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:54pmThis is in reply to MRLOGAN3: Showing up in a bra and panties is no more revealing to others than a bikini. Having your genitalia groped by a TSA agent is much more invasive and immoral. Sure the screener is supposed to be of the the same gender, but are they gay? That would be no different than a grope from the opposite sex. And don‘t forget they don’t change gloves in between gropes to different people. If the have a disease, the virus or bacteria can be spread that way. It is sad that she has only two choices; be sexually assaulted or wear almost no clothing.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:56pmI partially agree with MRLOGAN as much as I hate to do it, I look at the way she is made up and the thong underwear and I don’t know. Seems like an attention grab to me.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:59pmIn the middle ages, the noblemen would take advantage of any opportunity among the serf women. When a knight told her to lay down, she layed down. The serfs could not complain too much and keep their head. History repeats.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:00pmThey must let the dog on the plane since he’s a service dog. They let them in the stores. We have a service dog that regularly comes to our church.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:19pmI’m going to guess that @SNOWLEOPARD3200 had his/her account stolen.
Report Post »ME
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:32pmI use to fly a lot but have recently contacted (drooped me from list) all the airlines that send me email for points and travel deals and let them know. Till my 4th amendment right are not subject to violation by purchase of airline products I will no longer be traveling by air. please drop me from your email list till this is resolved.
Report Post »I am to ugly to go through in a thong myself so I will get use my money that seem to be the sexiest commodity I have anyway:)
@leftfighter
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:33pm@ mrlogan3
I respectfully disagree. I suspect she has to travel and has decided that if she has to do it, she’s going to make a statement in so doing.
I commend her on taking a stand.
I’ve decided that my family will not fly until the gate rape policy goes away. I have two children under 10, and rounds intended for anyone that molests or takes pedo pics of them.
That said, I don‘t care what Big Brother’s excuse is. They can‘t feel my kids up because won’t let the TSA take pedo pics of them.
As to myself and my wife? For 223 years, the standard for search & seizure has been probable cause and a warrant. We’re not criminals and flying is not a criminal act. That said, there‘s no probable cause to pat me or anyone esle down and I don’t see any judges at the gates, do you?
Aside from that, despite Big Brother’s assertions otherwise, a person has an expectation of privacy as it pertains to their body, particularly in the case of a person being forcibly compelled to have nude pictures taken of them in order to recieve a service. If it wasn’t the government actually doing it, they’d be prosecuting the person who was.
Here’s the more rediculous aspect to this whole mess: Someone that holds an active Top Secret clearance has to go through a Single Scope Background Investigation (including polygraph analysis in many cases) that goes back seven years and gives every aspect of their lives a figurative miscroscopic proctological analysis.
After all that, you‘re gonna tell me they’re deemed to be enough of a threat to other people that some TSA agent that holds the gutter-level “Confidential” clearance can pat them down because they’re supposedly a threat?
Final thought: What happens when they get send the first rectum bomb through, or *ahem* “strap-on” a bomb inside of a ballistics gel mold shaped like John Holmes’ “implement of destruction,” to get it past the pat down? Are they going to perform strip searches and rectal exams on everyone trying to fly? Where’s the line?
This is asinine. OK, my rant’s done.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:35pmThis is a very attractive lady with some kind of very unfortunate affliction that prevents her from walking. I can only imagine how creepy it must be for her to have some strange TSA thug put their hands under her thigh, behind her back, all around her thighs, and all around her breasts. Profiling is the ONLY way to do this professionally. Did they search her service dog too? It would not take much to hide some PETN on a dog. Are body orifices next?
Report Post »TNT1
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 3:44pmSorry Brooke but it didn’t look like a service dog to me,not to say thats not what she told the airline it was.Looked more like a pampered pooch
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:02pmWhy is Loni Anderson in a wheelchair?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:18pmmrlogan3.., Wanting attention or not she has more balls than those that CLAIMED they would over the holidays
Report Post »->Click For Brain Enema<-
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:37pmThe best thing about this is that the kid completely ignores her. He was the only one that had the right idea; ignore the attention whore. This video also demonstrates why the people who got upset about the boobs of a no talent singer on sesame street are getting excited about something their kids will ignore.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:07pmI don’t think I am ever going to fly again – it is just not worth it!! This whole deal with the pad downs etc – just doesn’t seem to me to be a logically way to handle the situation of keeping bombs off an airplane.
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silentwatcher
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 8:57pmThe woman pictured looks like one of the alien actors from MARS ATTACKS!!
Report Post »casseopea42
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 9:45pmOMG i was thinking the same thing. The way her head sort of tilted left and right over and over and she has this deadpan stare. It was a bit creepy.
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:35pm@Rightwrite.
Report Post »No, not a cig. she pulledout her book of ZigZag Orange,pulled a sheet out and rolled a ganja smoke.
It’s illegal to smoke cigs in the airport. Weed is quite OK.
All TSA screeners are under doctor’s care. the ganja is for medicinal Perp-ous.
psst
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 10:41pm@Polwatcher.
Report Post »Yes! They checked the dog, they thought they saw some PETN running around, but it was only white fleas.
A TSA agent said terrorists have develop a strain of PETN that mimmicks fleas.
Can’t be too caeful nowa-”daze’.
GrannyATL
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 11:24pmSorry, but look at the tone of her leg muscles. Her calve muscles are too defined. Even her midriff is not one that you’d find in someone who lives in a wheelchair.
This is all for attention. She’s not wheel-chair bound outside of this airport schtick. And that dog is not a service dog. You can bring a dog on flight as long as it’s crated and under your seat.
Expect more of this attention-seeking from insecure people that crave their moment of fame on YouTube.
Report Post »goldmankc
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:59amremember when they first introduced more tsa agents? they said they were there just so we had extra eyes looking for any terrorists.
Report Post »look what it has morphed into.
seems to me that EVERY time the fed comes up with a good idea, it starts out small so we’ll accept it, then it runs away with itself.
GIDDIONKANE
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:37amonly the goverment can assult people sexualy and get away with it “ in the name of security” has any one checked these folks against the sex registry?..
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:37amIs she a fembot??? and why wouldnt they let her through?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 8:28am… Nice rack …
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 12:22pmI cringe to see that the majority would much rather witness the the TSA put their hands down her pants/jeans and grope her breasts. What she is wearing and displaying is a brave stand for her rights not to be belittled in front of the public. Either way she is going be humiliated. She is just taking control of which way the humiliation will play out.
Report Post »Modern television allows more crude language, and dislplays of sexual prowess, than her simply wearing a thong and bikini top. Children will be exposed to gay teletubbies (sexual orientaion shouldn’t be an issue at a young age) and other sex driven messages on t.v. that should gain the attention of the public, first and foremost.
Snowleopard was right….U go girl!!!!