A PASSENGER is furious after being manhandled at a US airport and left drenched in his own urine… for the second time.
A bladder cancer survivor, Thomas Sawyer, 62, has a urostomy bag underneath his shirt. He claims that on July 14 a security screener at Detriot Metro Airport ignored his warning about the urostomy bag and dislodged the lid.
He was also not offered a private screening.
This is not the first time this has happened to Mr Sawyer. Last November the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was forced to apologise for humiliating him during an aggressive pat-down that left him covered in his own urine.
The TSA promised to investigate how screeners handle passengers with sensitive medical conditions.
“I thought that I had really made a difference for people flying with urostomies, I really did. I’m angry this time,” Mr Sawyer told the Daily Mail.
“(When I told him) he said “Yeah I know” and he patted me down. He was rough and he squeezed the bag a couple of times.”
Last year he spoke of the ordeal that left him “humiliated” and “crying”.
“I have to wear special clothes and in order to mount the bag I have to seal a wafer to my stomach and then attach the bag. If the seal is broken, urine can leak all over my body and clothes.
“One agent watched as the other used his flat hand to go slowly down my chest. I tried to warn him that he would hit the bag and break the seal on my bag, but he ignored me.
“Sure enough, the seal was broken and urine started dribbling down my shirt and my leg and into my pants.”
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