They are two elderly women with two humiliating stories, they say, at the hands of airport security at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The women say they were strip searched by Transportation Security Administration agents.
Now a third woman has come forward as the outrage grows.
The woman, who is in her 60s, told CBS 2 reporter Kathryn Brown a nearly identical story about her experience going through security JFK last weekend. In fact, she was on the same flight as one of the other women.
She said she is outraged and embarrassed.
On Monday night the TSA confirmed it is investigating all three claims.
“They strip searched me. I was in shock,” said 85-year-old Leonore Zimmerman of Long Beach.
“It never happened to me before,” added 88-year-old Ruth Sherman of Florida.
Zimmerman and Sherman don’t know each other and they weren’t traveling together last weekend, but the women have strikingly similar stories.
Both women said they were forced to take off their clothes in a private screening room at JFK last weekend, one day apart as part of an extended pat down by TSA agents.
“They decide this 85-year-old lady needs to be strip-searched,” Zimmerman said.
Congressman Peter King, who chairs the committee on Homeland Security, pointed out not all terrorists look like terrorists and said the incidents highlight a frustrating problem.
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So for starters, maybe they ought to strip search people who do look like terrorists, before they start on the rest of the population. But, you know, there would be SUCH a hue and cry if they “profiled” terrorists, that they would have to stop doing that. So they pick on little old ladies.