'TSA holds contractors to the highest ethical standards and has zero tolerance for this type of behavior,' the agency said in a statement.
The note-passer was an employee of Virginia security company VMD Corp, one of many regional staffing firms that the TSA works with through its Screening Partnership Program.
"TSA holds contractors to the highest ethical standards and has zero tolerance for this type of behavior," the agency said in a statement."This instance, which involved a contract employee, was investigated immediately upon receiving the complaint by the traveler. The employee has since been terminated by the contractor."
Strassner seems fairly forgiving of the odd encounter:"I travel a lot and the airport normally is spectacular," he wrote in an email to News 8."This was a totally weird event that they seemed to handle properly. I... just want to make sure they [give] some credit to their organization and don't let one lady trash their whole reputation."Getty Images
Misbehavior by airport security staff is not uncommon: In 2015, two TSA agents at Denver International Airport were fired for sexually assaulting male travelers: The pair would spot an attractive man in line for security screening and intentionally misidentify him as women. That would trigger the machine to register an anomaly in the groin area, giving one of the agents the opportunity to pat the man's crotch and buttocks.
Some agents have even faced repercussions for weird notes before. In 2011, a TSA agent at Newark Airport was fired for
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