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TSA to Fire Screener Who Left 'Get Your Freak On' Note

A woman found it in her suitcase, near her sex toy
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 28, 2011 4:25 PM CDT
TSA to Fire Screener Who Left 'Get Your Freak On' to Note to Woman With Sex Toy in Luggage
The note reads, "Get Your Freak On Girl."   (Twitter)

The TSA screener who found a sex toy in a woman's suitcase and left a note saying, "Get your freak on girl" will soon be out of a job. The agency called the note "highly inappropriate" and said it plans to fire the Newark screener, reports AP. The unidentified worker will first get a chance to appeal. The story gained traction after Jill Filipovic posted a Twitter photo of the note earlier this week.

"Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room," she wrote initially in a blog at Feministe. Since then, she's watched with dismay as the story turned into a media frenzy. "I get no satisfaction in hearing that someone may be in danger of losing their job over this," she wrote in a later post. "I would much prefer a look at why ‘security’ has been used to justify so many intrusions on our civil liberties, rather than fire a person who made a mistake." (More TSA stories.)

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