Passenger: TSA Forced me to Remove my Nipple Ring With Pliers

Mandi Hamlin says Transportation Security Administration agents in Lubbock, Texas, would not let her fly with her nipple piercings in place. According to the AP, TSA agents declined Hamlin’s request for a female agent to look at her piercings and confirm they were benign. They instead asked her to remove the piercings if she wanted to fly.

Hamlin removed the bar-shaped piercing from one nipple, but had trouble removing a ring from the other. She said she could only do so with pliers, which were supplied by a TSA agent.

The kicker: Hamlin says she was eventually allowed to pass through security without removing her belly button ring.

“I wouldn’t wish this experience upon anyone,” the 37-year-old Hamlin said. “My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way.”

Her attorney, Gloria Allred, said, “The last time that I checked, a nipple was not a dangerous weapon.”

Hamlin wants an apology from the TSA and an investigation by the agency’s civil rights office.

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