Please remove your, ummm, nipple ring?
Another wardrobe malfunction? Well, there's a nipple ring involved, but this time, it's more like a malfunction of common sense. Francisco Vara-Orta explains.
A woman was forced by Transportation Security Administration officials to remove her two nipple rings before she was allowed to board a flight, claims Gloria Allred, the well-known Los Angeles-based attorney. Allred's office has declined to release various details on the case, including the name of the woman, the date of the incident and the airport involved, until a news conference later today.
“The woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples,” Allred said in a statement. “The rings had been in her nipples for many years.”
There's no official nipple ring policy at the TSA, said Dwayne Baird, a spokesman, but added he's "really curious to know what this woman had in her nipples.”
This won't be the last you hear of this, as Allred plans to -- let's say it together -- hold a news conference this afternoon. Not your garden-variety gabfest, though. She's bringing along a mannequin for a demonstration.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Los Angeles Times
