62 year old woman found guilty of assaulting a federal aviation security staff member. Mark Frauenfelder:
Traveling Salesman says: "62 year old ex-school teacher and member of
the community in a sleepy Wisconsin town, Phyllis Dintenfass was just
found guilty of assaulting a federal aviation security staff member.
She squeezed the breast of the security person after she claims the
security person had done the same to her.
"She claims that she had made repeated verbal efforts to tell the
security person that she didn't want to be felt up. When the security
person said that she wasn't feeling Phyllis up, Phyllis responded, "My
husband has been feeling me up for 40 years, I know what its like to be
felt up". "But...maybe the security person was right. Lets consider the other possibilities:
"1.) Phyllis was horny. she likes breasts. We all do. She saw the opportunity and she went for it.
"2.) Phyllis is a terrorist. This really seems to be the most
likely scenario. The homeland is now secure thanks to the fine
judgement of our people in airport security.
"I'm sure the federal prison inmates are quite worried about the threat Phyllis will pose to their safety."
[F]ederal policy required that Phyllis Dintenfass
undergo a body search. As a result, she now faces imprisonment and
financial ruin because of her understandable reaction. This does
nothing to protect the public from terrorism, but a great deal to
reinforce the idea of illimitable federal power âo[base "] which is,
apparently, the entire point of the "war on terrorism."
Link [Boing Boing]
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