TSA Goes Through Woman’s Luggage, Finds Vibrator. Leaves Encouraging Note.
You have to hand it to the TSA, they’re consistently finding new ways to become the bane of our existence. Yet, despite the sheer creepiness of the story I can’t help but chuckle at it. Motherfuckers searched a woman’s bag, found a vibrator, and then left her a note. Tsk tsk! It’s always the indefinite article, a vibrator.
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“Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA,” tweets writer and attorney Jill Filipovic of Feministe. “Guess they discovered a ‘personal item’ in my bag. Wow.”
It was a standard-issue we got all up in your baggage business Transportation Security Administration Notice of Inspection (NOI), but with these handwritten words in pen, overlaid: “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL.”
“Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok,” Filipovic writes in a post titled Your Tax Dollars at Work, “but I also just died laughing in my hotel room.”
The “personal item” in question, Ms. Filipovic tells Boing Boing, was this $15 “Silver Bullet” vibrator from Babeland. I suppose a case could be made that an airport screener would have a legitimate reason to probe more deeply see what I did there you guys if this sort-of-ammo-shaped sex toy popped up on an imaging display. But the creepy note? Yeah, that definitely didn’t have to happen. And TSA agents behaving badly with female travelers’ intimate stuff? Not uncommon. Nor are women the only recipients of inappropriate notes from screeners.
So was it still there when she retrieved her luggage, I asked Filipovic?
“Yes, the vibe was still there. No theft, but I’m unsure if they handled it. Given that uncertainty, it’s definitely being retired.”
