Love Pats

From the Raleigh News and Observer:
So said, Tim Ely, a retired U.S. Army officer in response to a TSA employee’s comment that the x-ray scanner showed that “there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs”

Ely, who once was in charge of a military police unit in Guantanamo Bay, was flying from Raleigh Durham Airport on November 20th, 2010 when a false alarm from the full body scanner triggered a TSA body pat down.

After enduring a genital grope from the front and rear vantage points, Ely asked what exactly on the scan had triggered the alarm. In response to the question Ely says, “He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs.” Ely responded with, “I told him that something suspicious was my [genitals], you dummy.”