"The woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples."
Yikes. Just reading that quote makes me wince. It comes from lawyer-to-the-cameras Gloria Allred, who today will be -- you guessed it -- holding a press conference denouncing TSA for forcing a passenger at LAX to remove her nipple rings before boarding a flight. According to Allred, this is some sort of terrible violation of civil rights, although TSA defenders say that, depending on the nipple ring in question, this could just be consistent with the practice of barring passengers from bringing sharp objects, chains, etc. onto planes.
Either way, sounds painful to me. And yes, a little overboard. But seeing that TSA won't even let you bring a nail clipper aboard an airplane, we shouldn't be surprised. If national security can't handle mile-high nose-hair trimming, it probably can't handle Axl Rose nipple rings, either.
Then again, maybe TSA should make an exception here. Taking nipple rings off the banned list could inspire countless al-Qaida to take various sharp objects to their own nipples -- an excruciating fate they richly deserve.
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