We wrote about a similar situation on the site a couple months ago. Looks like it’s more common than we previously thought.
From AJC.com:
The 53-year-old Dallas woman told KXAS-TV station in Texas that she was halfway to her gate to catch an American Airlines flight to Dallas when she started hearing shouts.
“”˜Hey you! Hey you! Ma’am! Ma’am! Stop! Stop! The lady with the hair! You!” Brantley told the station.
When the Transportation Security Administration agent caught up with Brantley, she was told she would miss her flight if she didn’t allow her hair to be searched.
Brantley said she was in tears as the agent started “digging” through her hair to check for weapons. She asked the agent to “just find what you’re looking for and please hurry and leave. It was just humiliating,” Brantley told the station. “I was so embarrassed.”
In a statement to the Dallas station, the TSA said Brantley left the checkpoint area before screening was completed and she refused a private screening that was offered.
“Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair where prohibited items could be hidden,” the statement said.
Brantley, who told the station she hasn’t cut her hair since age 12, said her hair had never been searched before.
BMWK family, what do you think?