Objects to being frisked, tells agent "If you touch me, I'll touch you."

This business of frisking male and female passengers without taking into consideration the gender of both the "frisker" and "friskee" is getting out of hand.

A woman who was in the process of taking a flight from Fargo (ND) may be charged with a misdemeanor assault charge for hitting an agent of the Transportation Security Administration after he tried to pat her down. The weapon?

Her boarding pass.

The unidentified 48-year-old woman did not take kindly to the agent telling her that she was going to be patted down by the male agent after she repeatedly set off the metal detectors at the airport, according to Lt. Tod Dahle of the police department.

"She said if anybody was going to touch her, she was going to touch them," Dahle told the Associated Press. She was "just an average middle-aged person who got upset."

The passenger was eventually sent on her way, but on a different flight. She will, however, have to face the assault charge.

Complaints from women after airport pat downs are on the rise since the measure was instituted after two female passengers allegedly set off bombs on two Russian airliners, killing 90 people. As with all TSA searches of passengers, they are conducted in full view of any other passengers in the area. A TSA spokesperson stated that the agency has received 250 complaints since the policy was put in place in September, mostly from women complaining about TSA agents putting their open hands on their shoulders, waists and breasts.

FMI: www.tsa.gov