TSA thug leaves cancer-survivor covered in urine after "pat down"

From the Detroit Free Press:

Cancer survivor tells of humiliating pat-down at Metro Airport

A Houghton Lake man says he was so aggressively patted down by an agent at a Detroit Metro Airport security checkpoint this month that it caused the lid on his urostomy bag to come loose, spilling urine on his shirt and pants.

Thomas Sawyer, 61, said he sent complaints to several Transportation Security Administration officials Saturday.

 

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Sawyer said he and his wife were heading to catch a plane to Orlando on Nov. 7 when he went through the airport’s new full-body scanner and was then selected to be patted down by a TSA agent.

 

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Sawyer said one agent began the pat-down, but when he began sliding his hand firmly down his chest, he said he told the security officer that the pressure could pull the lid off his urostomy bag — which, Sawyer said, is what happened.

 

“When I got out of the room my wife knew something was wrong and I just broke down crying,” he said. “I was just so embarrassed, so humiliated.”

 

He said once through security, he changed his bag, but didn’t have time to change his clothing and had to board the plane soaked in urine.

“I was embarrassed to death,” Sawyer said.

He said he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2007 and had to have a procedure that left him with a urostomy bag to catch re-routed urine.

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Sawyer said he came home from his vacation Tuesday and waited to go public with his story until he was able to write a statement that satisfied him.

He said he was assisted by the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, a group he said he is a member of.

Claire Saxton, executive director for the network, called Sawyer’s claim “the most egregious incident I have heard of since the new procedures have been put in place,” and said agents should be trained to understand such medical issues.

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