OW, OW, OW, OW, OW!!!!

Mandi Hamlin, 37, is mad at the TSA, and she wants them to apologize! She was preparing to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas. When the security agent scanned her body with the hand wand, it went off as it passed Ms. Hamlin's chest. It seems Ms. Hamlin has a nipple ring.

Ms. Hamlin wanted to just show the jewelry to a female agent behind a privacy screen, but the order was that the jewelry would have to be removed. Ms. Hamlin was able to remove a bar-shaped piercing, but she informed the TSA officer that she would have to have pliers to remove a ring. The TSA obliged her with a pair of pliers, and she was able to remove the ring.

Ms. Hamlin says she heard snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and allowed to board the plane, she says, even though she still had a belly button ring. (I assume the belly button ring did not cause the scanner to go off.) Does this woman enjoy pain? Wonder how many other piercings she has? Ms. Hamlin wants an apology from TSA. Her attorney says, "After nipple rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove." NO JOKE! As far as the snickering, when you do something stupid, you have to expect to endure a little humiliation!

The TSA says that if an alarm does sound "until that is resolved, we're not going to let them go through the checkpoint, no matter what they're wearing or where they're wearing it." So Ms. Hamlin, save yourself some pain and embarrassment -- wear your rings on your fingers like normal people do!