All Rebecca Solomon wanted to do was get back to school. She was flying back to the University of Michigan after winter break from her home in Pennsylvania via the Philadelphia International Airport. Ten days previous, her destination (Detroit) and air carrier (Northwest Airlines) were implicated in a terrorism plot after the infamous Underwear Bomber made it through security with a high-explosive load in his pants. Needless to say, she was already nervous when she was going through the security screening. Then, some TSA agent decided to play a joke on her and plant a baggie of white powder on her person.
Security screeners shouldn’t plant stuff on people, either as a joke, a way to flirt, or as a security test. If you want to do that sort of thing, do it to yourself or send a deliberate fake passenger through the system. It goes without saying that this guy is no longer employed as a TSA agent, but I doubt that information is going to make a freaked-out, crying, 22-year-old girl feel any better the next time she tries to fly back to her family home in Wynnewood.
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