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Brooklyn Man With Huge Penis Frisked By TSA, Lives To Tell The Tale
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 16, 2012
Modified Jul 17, 2012
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File this under either "Of course" or "You should have problems like this." Apparently a Brooklyn resident who has the world's largest penis (9" flaccid, 13.5" erect) suffered the humiliation of the TSA when traveling through San Francisco International Airport today. Jonah Falcon told the Huffington Post that one "guard stopped me and asked me if I had some sort of growth."
Falcon explained, "I had my 'stuff' strapped to the left. I wasn't erect at the time. One of the guards asked if my pockets were empty and I said, 'Yes.'" Then he was taken to an X-ray scanner and metal detector. While that sucks and everything, we feel worse for the grannies made to get naked and show the TSA their colostomy bags.
Anyway, here's Falcon on the Daily Show:
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And here's Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls suffering a similar humiliation at the airport:
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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