It’s not just the two-legged TSA Officers who attack passengers. A 4-legged TSA Officer, employed as a drug-sniffing dog, bit a passenger in the stomach for no apparent reason.
NBC 11 Atlanta is reporting the story about the Rome, Georgia, woman:
A Rome woman is still recovering after being bitten in the side by a TSA bomb-sniffing dog.
The incident happened on May 2nd in the south terminal baggage claim carousel at Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
Sue Dubitsky told 11Alive News she was standing in the baggage claim area and noticed the K-9 officer and handler standing beside her. She said she was barely paying them any attention when the dog suddenly lunged and bit her in the lower stomach.
We can only speculate as to what kind of abuse or mistreatment the TSA subjects its canine officers to for them to lash out like this. Typically, bomb-sniffing dogs are trained to quietly sit down next to the offending item.
The victim said she wanted to speak out to keep this from happening to someone else.
“Can you imagine that [dog's mouth]Â around a child’s neck?” she said. “And that, the height of my waistline, could easily be a child.”
TSA provides and trains bomb-sniffing dogs for airport security. The dogs are handled by local law enforcement. In this case, the handler was an Atlanta Police officer.
Atlanta Police and the TSA are investigating the incident.
In the meantime, be careful around any TSA agent, whether or not they have 4 legs and a tail!
