85-year-old woman strip searched

[Northeast News]

"An 85-year-old woman en route home to her retirement community in Florida claims that she was strip-searched by Transportation Security Administration staff at New York's John. F. Kennedy Airport, the Associated Press reports.

"Lenore Zimmerman, who was heading for a JetBlue flight to Ft. Lauderdale, told the wire service that she asked to be patted down rather than going through the body scanner but was made to take off her clothes and ended up missing the plane. 'I'm hunched over. I'm in a wheelchair. I weigh under 110 pounds,' she said. 'Do I look like a terrorist?' However, the TSA asserted that strip searches aren't part of their procedure and denied one was done in Zimmerman's case."

[Northeast News]

I forgot to cite where I saw this. IYahoo Finance.

[Anil]

I do find it hard to believe. At least the Terminal 2, The TSA has a 6' divider on the side for probable patdown. Wheelchair bound people cannot go through the L3 scanner anyways. More to this story than what is being described.