College student Aaron Tobey was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor after he was forced to endure a search and pat-down in the Richmond, VA Airport. When forced to undergo the search, Tobey stripped down to his underwear, and presented the Fourth Amendment written across his bare chest for security and travelers alike to see.
When Tobey filed his $250,000 lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the Richmond Airport Authority and several security guards, police dropped the misdemeanor charges against him. He’s still suing.
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that is the kind of activism i can get behind!
very cool buddy thanks for sticking up for the rest of us
I like that “to be secure” is written right underneath his nipples.
Hell yeah Aaron! You rock! I live in Va and flown out of RIC many times and TSA there think they are gods or something! I now take Amtrak to avoid TSA, it works for now. Hope you win your lawsuit!
Hell yeah, it’s about damned time someone steps up and proves that TSA truly do take things too far.
Did the police really think that dropping a misdemeanor charge would quiet him down? He didn’t do this by accident and I’m sure he knew what the consequences would be.
Consequences are for when people do something WRONG. Writing on himself in a form of peaceful protest against UNLAWFUL search isn’t wrong.
And we aren’t any safer.
Conesequences are actually for whenever anything happens. It’s called cause and effect or action and consequence.
Wow, this guy is legit.
And sexy too.
Me and my husband were going through Richmond airport, with our kids, and they wanted him to strip in a back room and he refused and chose to drop his pants right there. All over a gum wrapper in the cargo pockets. He was not arrested and they passed him through. We are a gay couple who always feel uncomfortable in that airport.