May 7, 2010 10:22AM 

# The Onion? No, Real Life 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The [*Smoking Gun*](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0506101tsa1.html) and [*Miami Herald*](http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/06/1617423/miami-airport-screener-beats-co.html) report that a Miami International Airport TSA worker has been arrested for beating up a co-worker who joked about his endowment after observing the assailant walk through a whole-body imager or “strip-search machine.”

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[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy) 

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