Oh well. The post 9/11 world has really breached the border of plainly cautios to sheer paranoia to the max. Well, I can say you just can’t blame people since it takes a lot of social engineering and politics to sway the general public that they’ve can fear their psycho-killer of a neighbor more than some suicide-bomber on the morning bus.

Now how about this report on SFGate about Nancy Kates having a standoff with Transport Safety officials due to her bra? Yup. Underwires can cause those darned things to beep. Too bad for her, the officials weren’t convinced that the bra wasn’t the only WMD on her.

So she went to the rest room, then through the security line a second time. Walking through the airport braless can be embarrassing for a large-chested woman, not to mention uncomfortable. The metal detector didn’t beep on the second time through, but then officials decided to go through Kates’ carry-on luggage, she said.

The whole undertaking took 40 minutes, Kates said, and caused her to miss her flight. JetBlue put her on another one, but she was four hours late getting to Boston.

As far as I’m concerned, underwires are a good thing. Bras keep things together pert and pretty. Too bad the people concerned with public safety don’t seem to share the same point of view.