Traveler gets 'personal' note on TSA card

By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com contributor

The Transportation Security Administration?reserves the right to physically inspect baggage checked at the airport. When an inspector does go through a bag, a traveler will often find a pre-printed inspection card letting them know someone was there.

But after traveling with a small vibrator in her checked luggage, New York-based blogger and lawyer Jill Filipovic discovered that someone had scrawled ?Get your freak on girl,? across the TSA paperwork left in her bag.

Under the title ?Your tax dollars at work,? Filipovic posted the note on the Feministe?blog and added her own comment, ?Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room.?

She also Tweeted a photo of the note, adding: ?Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA. Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow.?

The TSA inspection card is printed in Spanish on one side and English on the other.

?The fact that TSA rifles through our personal items isn't a secret, but it's also something most of us don't particularly want to think about,? Filipovic told the Daily Dot. ?The fact that they would leave a note takes it to another level of invasive ? especially since I imagine they assumed I'd be embarrassed by their discovery.?

Because TSA is just one of several entities that handles checked baggage, TSA cannot confirm yet if it was a TSA employee who added the handwritten comment to the note received by Filipovic. But, according to TSA spokesperson Greg Soule, ?TSA takes all allegations of inappropriate conduct seriously and is investigating this claim.??

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Source: http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/25/8481160-traveler-gets-personal-note-on-tsa-card

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