Saturday, April 12, 2014

TSA harasses stroke victim; demands mute woman talk to screeners in order to fly...

What kind of a security threat is a wheelchair bound stroke victim who is unable to talk or write? Apparently a big one, if TSA screeners at Los Angeles International Airport are to be believed.

Sherry Wright was attempting to fly with her sister to Phoenix recently, but was barred from doing so by TSA agents who set about forcing her mute sister to try to talk in order to clear security lines.

Heidi Wright, who suffered a stroke ten years ago and has been left disabled, is unable to talk to her family. This did not stop TSA screeners from demanding that she say her own name in order to board a flight. Screeners insisted on the proviso after stopping the sisters because of an expired driver’s license, ABC reports.

“I showed her ID, her social and her DMV (licence) papers,” Sherry told reporters.

“He just wanted me to make my sister talk, and I couldn’t believe it. I was just standing there, tears were coming out and I was like, ‘Are you serious? We can’t get her to talk’.”

Ms Wright described the TSA agents as rude and insensitive as they eventually forced the sisters to take an eight hour bus journey in order to reach their destination. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. “He’s wearing a diaper!”: TSA agent humiliates cancer victim...
  2. TSA agents harass & call bomb specialist on wheelchair child...
  3. TSA assaults & traumatizes three-year-old girl in wheelchair...
  4. TSA looks under bandages of dying woman in front of crowd...
  5. Teen accuses TSA of breaking her $10,000 insulin pump...
  6. TSA agent spills grandfather's ashes, laughs about it...
  7. TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room...

No comments:

Post a Comment