TSA Screener Arrested For Beating Co-Worker
"A Miami airport screener, agitated at continued ribbing after colleagues saw his body parts in an imaging scanner, attacked a colleague, police said.
A Miami International Airport federal security screener has been arrested for allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker.
The source of their conflict, police say: daily ribbing about the size of the screener's genitalia.
Screener Rolando Negrin's private body parts were observed by his Transportation Security Administration colleagues conducting training on the airport's full-body imaging machines." Read more
Usually it's hatred of the Great Satan America that's behind acts of mayhem and violence at airports. But this time the violence was provoked by airport workers mercilessly poking fun at one of their colleagues.
What lessons can we learn from this disturbing, but interesting incident?
The most important lesson to be gleaned is that full-body scanning machines make a mockery out of the concept of privacy. When our blind fear of terrorism compels us to place machines at airports that can look right through us, the terrorists have won. I'd rather travel by bus than have my privacy violated, we are either too afraid of terrorism or too weak-willed to protest this horrendous invasion of privacy.
The second less to be learned is that workplace harassment shouldn't be tolerated, Negrin should have filed a complaint with human resources, and the offenders should have been disciplined. Negrin should file a lawsuit against his company for tolerating such blatant harassment.
I feel sorry for Negrin, but he shouldn't have lashed out in violence. Now the whole world is aware of his shortcomings, the poor guy will never again get a date.
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