TSA Sticks Hands Down Charlotte Woman's Skirt in Tampa: Lisa Daidone Says She is Done Travelling

Lisa Daidone was flying home from Tampa to Charlotte on December 3. She was pulled out of the TSA scanner line, after receiving a high dose of radiation from the scanner which one Congressman admits is 20 times greater than the TSA is telling Americans, and went through a harassing pat down including the TSA putting their hands down her skirt.

At the Tampa airport, we were both randomly selected to go through the full-body scanner. Going through the scanner was uncomfortable and a bit creepy, but I didn't think it was a big deal until I tried to leave the scanner.

I assumed I was finished, but a female Transportation Security officer yelled at me for "trying to get away from her." She told me I had to stand in front of her - while I was still barefoot and trying to watch out for my stuff, which had gone through a different scanner - until my scan was read.

I told her I had never undergone this process and was a bit afraid, and she laughed at me and told me I didn't know what I was talking about.

The woman grabbed my wrist and said she had to look at my plastic watch. I tried to take it off and hand it to her, and she yelled at me not to interfere with her search.

Then, with no explanation, she pulled up my shirt, exposing my stomach and the top of my underwear, and stuck the top half of her fingers inside the waistband of my pants. I yanked my shirt down and told her she was not showing the top of my underwear and my naked stomach to anyone.

She put her hand up in front of me, threatened to call security and have me arrested if I "tried to get away from her again," and called security for a private screening.

I was not allowed to get my things. I was not allowed to put on my shoes. I was taken through a side door, down a dirty hall, to a dark dingy windowless storage room.

I had to pull up my shirt, and the woman put half her hand down my pants to search me. She complained that I should have cooperated originally and this would not have happened. Then I was allowed to put on my shoes and get my things.

I left the area and cried. I was touched and humiliated in ways that have never happened to me.