Remove your piercing to board the plane..

[cmyX6go]

Originally Posted by scirocco33

Why take hidden/hard to remove metal objects through a metal detector in the first place?
While it can be debated, whether airports are more secure now that before 9/11, it seems we only want security as long as it doesn’t inconvenience us in any way.

First of all...from my previous post

Originally Posted by cmyX5go

Let me say that I have no problem with being screened for the sake of security but lets use a little common sense. She offered to let a female inspect the piercings

She could have and should have handled it differently. She could have told them upfront. None of us know what her attitude was which as someone else mentioned would surely impact how she was treated. Does she fly frequently, did she even realize it? Who knows, maybe she did it intentionally.

However, what risk do nipple rings pose that they needed to be removed prior to boarding the plane? I'm allowed to have my tweezer in my pocketbook and that's sharp enough to cut someone's jugular vein.

You ask why would you taken hidden/hard to remove metal objects through a metal detector...because they were hard to remove.