Does a TSA Employee With a “Small Penis” Deserve to Have His Name All Over the Internet?

No.

Here’s the fact pattern, if you haven’t already heard it: One way the TSA trains screeners to use full-body scanners is by having the employees screen each other using the machines. One employee who was screened in the course of the training was thereafter teased “on a daily basis” by his co-workers for having a “small penis.” He eventually flipped out and non-lethally beat up one of his daily teasers. Not going to name the employee in question here, but The Smoking Gun has the police report.

The story touched a nerve because 1) people are uneasy about full body scanners and worried that they may endure similar teasing or even have pictures of them leak onto the Internet, and 2) it involves the phrase “small penis.” Got it. It’s a tech story, a security story, and an “oddly enough” story all at once. But does the employee in question really deserve to have his name and face plastered all over the Internet, including on at least one newspaper’s website?

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