You know it's going to be a long day when you're already hearing stupid, idiotic comments at 6:45 in the morning.  Today's "Stupidest Comment of the Day" comes to us via Susan Kim, co-anchor of Live at Daybreak on TMJ4.  They were discussing this news story, about a woman who was humiliated for no good reason by TSA personnel while trying to board a plane:

A WOMAN in the US says she was forced by airport security guards to remove her nipple rings with a pair of pliers before she could board a flight.

Mandi Hamlin, 37, is demanding a civil rights investigation, as well as an apology from federal security agents after being forced to remove a nipple ring before boarding a flight from Lubbock to Dallas in Texas.
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She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped nipple piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.

"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," Ms Hamlin's lawyer, Gloria Allred, told the director of the TSA's Office of Civil Rights and Liberties.
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"After nipple rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove," said Ms Allred.

Ms Hamlin said she heard the male security agents snickering as she took out the ring, before being scanned again and eventually allowed on the plane.

Ms Allred said Ms Hamlin had filed a complaint to the TSA's customer service manager at Lubbock airport, who said the screening was handled properly.

First of all, this is yet another horrifying example of TSA incompetence, all in the faux effort to make us feel more secure after Sept. 11th.  I'd say this is right along with mothers being forced to drink their own breast milk, but at least that doesn't cause significant pain and later scarring.  But in a truly horrifying display of how complacent with government idiocy we've become, Susan then said during banter with her co-anchor Vince Vitrano (and I'm paraphrasing a bit)... "She deserves an apology, but not a civil rights investigation.  What did she expect getting on a plane with nipple rings?"

I'm sure she expected to be treated with dignity, and also didn't expect to be treated like a terrorist because she had two little bars in her nipples.  What's next Susan?  Are you going to make a child with leg braces take them off and prove they can't walk without them before being allowed to board a plane?  Jesus, I'd be scared to get on a plane if I had a plate in my arm... they might insist on performing surgery right there on the spot to remove it.  Honestly... is this what we've come to in the name of security?