Originally Posted By: JOD
Pablo, if you feel violated by this, try flying with a bicycle.
I thought it bonkers last year when better half and I went. I thought I was getting some special treatment, here and there, until I saw them lifting my partner's breasts (she didn't want a bra for a 16 hour flight), and feel under them...yeah, it was a woman, but it seemed only to be a time filler while I was getting something else looked at/shaken...but it was in public, and up shirt.
Then my sister went...
Try being a 40 year old paraplegic in a wheelchair, with a Harrington's Rod, pinned and screwed hips, and a urostomy bag.
She asked one very attentive attendant if she had a cigarette at one stage.
And her experiences after that demonstrate that it has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with shaping opinion and intimidation.
Being wheeled through a guardless, passless door that says "Authorised Personnel only" isn't security.