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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Ok what's up with this bullshit? Some lady goes through a metal detector without incident and then gets wanded. The wand beeps around her chest. Instead of being offered a "pat-down" the officers demand she remove her piercings. They didn't unscrew, no, they had to be removed with pliers.

Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked whether she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was out, she said.

Basically a few male officers in the TSA decided to have some fun, at someone's expense. It's not mandatory to have to remove body jewelry. Like someone can fucking hijack a plane with a nipple ring? It's bullshit. Clearly someone was having some fun. You would think that the TSA would discipline the officers involved.

Hamlin filed a complaint, but the TSA's customer service manager at the Lubbock airport concluded the screening was handled properly, Allred said.

So in the end this woman was humiliated, and injured when she had to have the rings re-inserted later. TSA has had multiple incidents of officers mistreating woman, demanding patdowns, using their palm instead of the back of their hands across private areas.

You have to wonder what they do in the case of a Prince Albert...