Elderly woman says she was molested by pervert TSA thugs at airport!
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 4, 2011 - Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80s at the very same terminal says she was exposed the previous day.
From her home in Sunrise, Florida, 88-year-old Ruth Sherman says she knows for a fact that senior citizens are being violated at a screening checkpoint at JFK.
“I felt like I was invaded,” she told CBS 2′s Dave Carlin.
Sherman says a week long Thanksgiving holiday with her family in New York ended with an ordeal that started when the screeners wanted to check the bulge from Sherman’s colostomy bag.
“This is private for me. It’s bad enough that I have it,” she said. “I had to pull it out from my sweatpants and I had to pull down my underwear.”
“You don’t do that to anybody,” she added. “I felt invaded.”
She says she initially complained to JetBlue and told her family, but is now going public after watching Zimmerman on television, recounting a frighteningly similar tale of what she says was her strip search, at the same JetBlue terminal at JFK.
“They decided this 85-year-old lady needed to be strip searched,” Zimmerman said. “After they patted me down, they took me into a private room and strip searched me. I said, ‘Why are you strip-searching me? Do I like look a terrorist?’” she said.
Zimmerman says she was allowed to keep wearing her top.
Zimmerman, who lives most of the year in Long Beach, Nassau County, and spends winters in South Florida, says she will sue the Transportation Security Administration. . She said she wanted a pat down, that her defibrillator is why she cannot go through the machine, but that she never expected a strip search.
The fascist pigs at the TSA released a statement Sunday, apologizing to Zimmerman but disputing her story.