TSA Leaves Special Note For Jill Filipovic About Sex Toy In Luggage

[Whisper]

NEW YORK (PIX11)— One woman found out Saturday that the body scans and intimate pat-downs weren't the extent of TSA's ability to violate privacy -- she got a very personal note in her luggage.

The woman, Femeniste blogger Jill Filipovic, received the standard TSA-issue notice that her luggage had been checked, but with the message, "Get your freak on girl." Filipovic says she believes it was all due to a small vibrator she was reportedly carrying in her suitcase on the flight from Newark to Dublin, Ireland.

After landing, Filipovic discovered the unrequested advice from TSA, and tweeted, "Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA. Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow."

Responses to her tweet and picture varied from horror to approval.

One follower wrote, "Might as well read, 'We've just invaded your privacy. Haha. How does that feel?' Icky! Sorry."

While another responded, "A rare human moment/connection from a normally humorless agency. I like it & whoever wrote it."

Still others just saw it as a hygiene issue, "I don't how personal the "personal item" is but I wouldn't even touch it anymore. Ewww!!"

Filipovic seems to have taken it in stride, tweeting, "So this song has been stuck in my head all day."
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Woman finds special note from TSA after agents find 'personal item' in her luggage

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[malq]

It kills me she is so concerned about her privacy that she blogged about it and ended up here on DD! LMFAO!

ETA: TWEETED, 'cuse me

[gee]

Wait a minute no @biteme on this yet!

Personally I wouldn't travel with my Jack Rabbit Vibrator
Obviously she isn't that concerned about privacy if she is blogging about it. TSA is suppose to be a professional agency and I don't believe leaving personal notes in people baggage falls in the professional category.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

It kills me she is so concerned about her privacy that she blogged about it and ended up here on DD! LMFAO!

ETA: TWEETED, 'cuse me

Doesn't seem like she had an privacy issue with it.

Filipovic seems to have taken it in stride, tweeting, "So this song has been stuck in my head all day."

Some who responded to her may have, but she "took it in stride" and @gee more or less echoed it. From her blog:

Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archive...ars-at-work-2/

Probably the same reaction I would have. Anyone who flies knows that they go through suitcases at random. I wonder if next time I should leave a candy bar with a note like this: For the TSA person inspecting my bag: Accept this token of my gratitude for doing your job. Don't touch the vibrator, it has girl-splooge on it.

[Athena]

The article doesn't actually say anything about HER being concerned about privacy - that was the journalist's phrasing. It doesn't appear to say Filipovic is "concerned" about anything, really.

That said, I'd fall on the "A rare human moment/connection from a normally humorless agency. I like it & whoever wrote it," portion of the spectrum. They're already going through my shit... they may as well have a sense of humor about it. Don't fly with anything you don't want people to see.

[gee]

@Dakota Valkyrie

I wonder if next time I should leave a candy bar with a note like this: For the TSA person inspecting my bag: Accept this token of my gratitude for doing your job. Don't touch the vibrator, it has girl-splooge on it.

I think this is a Brilliant Idea! A little deflection so as to insure that one personal Item does not get man handled.

[Robynne]

Hahahahahaha!!!! DV

I would have laughed about it myself. I mean, they are gonna find it in there. Someone thought they were funny. (they were) BFD!!!

[biteme]

Doesn't seem like she had an privacy issue with it.



Some who responded to her may have, but she "took it in stride" and @gee more or less echoed it. From her blog:

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archive...ars-at-work-2/

Probably the same reaction I would have. Anyone who flies knows that they go through suitcases at random. I wonder if next time I should leave a candy bar with a note like this: For the TSA person inspecting my bag: Accept this token of my gratitude for doing your job. Don't touch the vibrator, it has girl-splooge on it.

TSA goon would read that note as "call the bomb squad"
@gee, unprofessional as expected from TSA hiring binge, minimal background check government trained goon squad
Many I'm sure will defend the fact TSA hires goons without extensive background checks to go through people's Luggage
they have that whatever Big Brother does is OK with me, my Government is here to protect me mentality

[Dakota Valkyrie]

TSA goon would read that note as "call the bomb squad"

That would just my luck! I never have good luck when I need it.

[carolinablue]

I wonder if next time I should leave a candy bar with a note like this: For the TSA person inspecting my bag: Accept this token of my gratitude for doing your job. Don't touch the vibrator, it has girl-splooge on it.

It is not a good idea to put such thoughts in my mind. Next plane trip I might load up a silver bullet and put it in my carry-on. Of course I'd get flagged! I'd tell them I have screaming panic attacks and need it to relieve my anxiety. Then I'll get hauled off by the TSA and banned from flying forevah. Imagine the fuss!

This really happened: Our last camping trip to Yellowstone, we loaded up on trail mix, granola, energy bars and lots of other snack foods. Sis wasn't about to spend money on storage bags when she could get them free from the hospital, so all our edibles were stored in biohazard bags. We made a couple of connecting flights, and the last was in some Podunk town so small they checked your baggage by hand at long tables in front of what passed for an airport...a Quonset hut on a weedy runway, shades of WWII! You should've seen the looks on their faces when they pulled out bag after bag of WARNING! BIOLOGICAL HAZARD! WARNING! Especially since we were munching away on the contents as they checked. The flight was something else; we refer to the airline as Ride 'em Cowboy Airways because it was like riding a bronc, according to my white-knuckled sis. I fell asleep.

[TACO]

A Transportation Security Administration airport security worker has been removed from checking baggage because of a note with sexual implications he left for a passenger at Newark's Liberty International Airport.

Jill Filipovic, a New York blogger who is also a lawyer, tweeted Monday that a note was left in her bag — which contained a sex toy, according to reports — that said "get your freak on." The note was written on a TSA notice of inspection form, leading Filipovic to believe it was written by someone at airport security.

TSA said on its blog Tuesday that it had conducted an investigation into the incident and removed the employee that was responsible from duty.


"That individual was immediately removed from screening operations and appropriate disciplinary action has been initiated," the agency wrote.
"The handwritten note was highly inappropriate and unprofessional, and TSA has zero tolerance for this type of behavior."

http://thehill.com/blogs/transportat...your-freak-on-