Recently, OK WASSUP! reported the story of an elderly cancer patient who was forced by TSA officials to remove her adult diaper during their security search. After such an embarrassing and insensitive episode, you’d think the TSA learned their lesson and altered their search methods, right? WRONG!
Thomas Sawyer was travelling from Detroit Metro Airport to Orlando on July 14th, when TSA officials become overly rough in their security search of him. Despite his pleas that they be gentle during the patdown, since he is a bladder cancer patient and was at that very moment wearing a urostomy bag, the TSA official went about his business and seemed to ignore Sawyer’s warning. Except the security official’s unnecessary roughness caused the bladder bag to burst, spilling urine everywhere and soaking Sawyer in his own human waste. And the worst part is, this is now the 2nd time in less than a year that a TSA official’s rough search methods has ended with a burst bag and Sawyer drenched in his own urine!
The TSA apologized for the first incident, which occurred last November. TSA administrator John Pistole even issued an official apology, assuring Sawyer that an investigation would be underway and changes would be made. So what happened?
“I thought that I had really made a difference for people flying with urostomies, I really did,” the 62-year-old Sawyer said in a recent interview. “I’m angry this time. They can’t be training them properly.”
These TSA guys are so dumb. Theres always something going wrong with them at alot of the airports. They look all intimidating like they know what they're doing but many times they don't. Somebody needs to train them better on how to handle the older and handicap travelers.