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TSA Agents Now Becoming Cartoon Candy-Stealing Villains

It's only Wednesday and already TSA agents have embroiled the agency in new scandals. First singer Nicki Minaj, who has an at-best complicated relationship with civilian aviation, complained on Twitter about being "overtly fondled" by "a very old lady w/an accent" during a pat-down. She punctuated her tweet with the query "word?"

Minaj then started taking pictures of the agent and posting them online. When instructed to stop she expressed outrage over how federal airport security agents are allowed to take pictures of her, but for some reason she's not allowed to take pictures of them. While that observation is indeed technically true, we do not anticipate that the online whining of a self-entitled, self-absorbed, overly privileged celebrity will significantly damage TSA's reputation.

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