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Kallish said she is enthusiastic to accept heavy security — including intrusive searches — but said the TSA must come up up with a better way to check over fliers with acute medical needs.
“There has to be a way to location this,” she said.
Kallish’s ordeal happened on Nov. 29, the same day Lenore Zimmerman, 85, of Great Beach, L.I., ran into trouble with TSA at the same airport.
Zimmerman claims the TSA took her to a private block after she decided not to pass through a scanning machine for fear it would cause problems with her pith defibrillator. Once in the private room, she was ordered to remove some clothing and back shore up steady, exposing her private areas.
Zimmerman cut her leg in the process, and missed her stampede flee, she said.
The previous day at the same checkpoint, cancer survivor Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Fla., was affected to show TSA screeners her colostomy bag, which can cause pain if it is touched.
TSA officials uphold that in each case, its screeners followed procedures aimed at detecting threats from terrorists.
Source: New York Daily News