Underwire Bra sets off alarm

When Nancy Kates arrived at Oakland International Airport to board the JetBlue flight 472 to Boston, she ended up in a standoff with Transportation Safety Administration officials. Her underwire bra set off the metal detector and she was pulled aside and checked by a female TSA agent. 8220;The woman touched my breast. I said, 8216;you can8217;t do that; you can8217;t treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra,8217; 8220; Kates said.
The supervisor told her she had the choice of submitting to a pat-down in a private room or not flying. Kates offered a third alternative, to take off her bra and try again. The metal detector didn8217;t beep the second time through, but officials took 40 minutes to go through Kates8217; carry-on luggage.

Dressing down for bikers
Bob Poelker and his three Hollister, California, biker buddies from the Top Hatters Motorcycle Club vroomed into the Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 30 eight years ago, hoping to sample the festival8217;s fare. Wearing denim and leather vests festooned with the club8217;s winged skull and top hat insignia, they had purportedly run afoul of an unwritten dress code for the annual gathering that attracts more than 100,000. The bikers sued the city and festival organisers, alleging their First Amendment rights had been abridged by Gilroy police who insisted they remove the offending garments or get lost.
The United States District Court for Northern California ruled that city officials couldn8217;t be held accountable for a dress code enforced by the hosts of what was a privately managed event. After the bikers appealed, 11 judges of the appeals court in Pasadena upheld the district court decision.

Mail maladies
A Scottish letter carrier working in Frankfurt hoarded at least 20,000 letters at home because he felt his work was too taxing, the police. The postal worker was caught when a neighbour saw him tipping a bag of mail into a garbage bin and alerted the police. 8220;It8217;s worth mentioning the 23-year-old didn8217;t deliver mail addressed to himself either,8221; the police said in a statement.
Investigators found garbage bags and boxes full of letters and other mail stashed around the man8217;s apartment and basement. He told the police that he had gotten behind with deliveries because of night school studies and felt too overtaxed to catch up.