The culture of groping runs deep at the TSA: Nilda C. Marugame, a TSA agent from Hawaii, claims that she faced sanctions from her superiors when she reported a sexual assault by co-worker who had generated similar complaints from two other women at the job-site. She says she was intimidated into signing an official retraction of her complaint. She's suing. (Thanks, Marilyn!)

  • BookGuy

    Makes sense.  I mean, what are TSA agents supposed to do when there are lulls?  Gotta grope somebody.

    • oasisob1

      It’s on-the-job training.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TGZ75URQ6DKTCNXV3RV36ZKALQ Matthew

    Can we please shut down the TSA already?  I mean, I doubt they could really stop a box-cutter from making it on a plane if people were determined to hide it.  And passengers would NOT let somebody with a box-cutter take over a plane, ever again.  We Americans would kick that person’s ass, even if it meant getting some cuts from a box-cutter to do so.

    • Lobster

      I agree with you there but… but what if they also have shampoo in a container that’s larger than 3 oz.?

      • flosofl

        Well, in that case we’re obviously fucked.

        • Ambiguity

          Yea, that stuff STINGS like the dickens!

      • jackbird

        I recently realized that the liquids restriction might make some sense, but because of the nature of the threat they can’t publicly say what it is:

        How much gasoline would you need to spill and light in the cabin of an aircraft to kill the passengers and crew from smoke inhalation, thereby bringing down the plane?

        If that figure is around a gallon or more  (128 oz.) then it would make sense to want liquids on board to be contained in lots of tiny bottles (gasoline stinks; someone is going to notice before you open dozens of bottles) rather than a handful.

  • Lobster

    “I was… practicing?”

  • soylent_plaid

    So a TSA agent is suing over… being groped by a TSA agent?  They might not like the precedent this sets…

    • That_Anonymous_Coward

      in all fairness if we let them spend time groping each other maybe they will give up on groping us.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7KOJ6PNIXUNHEZZQUQFZUBPLA Lady

    I don’t see a problem here… If you work for an branch of our government that sexually assaults the very public it is suppose to protect then you should expect on the job training.

  • TheMudshark

    “I´ve told you a hundred times, not the ones in the blue shirt!”