Tammy Banovac is ready to give Corrine Thiele, the LAX Bikini girl a run for her money. She wasn't allowed to pass through the Oklahoma City Airport TSA checkpoint while she sat in a wheelchair wearing just a bikini and top. But it wasn't the outfit that did her in.
Her wheelchair tested positive for nitrates. Nitrates are also used in bomb making. Tammy Banovac had no knowledge of the nitrates on her wheelchair.
Banovac told NewsOK she chose to wear her underwear because of an unpleasant experience two weeks ago at airport security. She is typically hand-searched at airports because she uses a wheelchair, she said, and she felt violated by the more invasive searches employed at airports recently.
“If it happened anywhere else, it would have been sexual assault.”
