Someone Comments ... In Writing ... About A Sex Toy In A Woman's Luggage

Nearly everyone who has checked luggage on an airplane in recent years at some point has likely seen a tag on their bag when they get it back indicating that it has been opened by TSA. But attorney and writer Jill Filipovic got a little something extra written on the inspection notice tucked inside her suitcase ... an unsigned note on a TSA document.

Filipovic reportedly was carrying what she called on her blog "the most basic lady-thing you can imagine" in her luggage on a recent business trip, and when she got to her hotel, she opened her bag to find an inspection notice from TSA that her luggage had been checked. On the back of the notice was a hand-written note from someone deep in the bowels of the airport reading "Get your freak on girl."

Prison Planet reports that, while Filipovic found the incident very funny ... "I ... just died laughing in my hotel room," she wrote ... she also told ABC News the note was "offensive", and she plans to file a formal complaint with TSA. The writer says she hopes the complaint will remind TSA that riffling through other people's personal belongings is a serious responsibility "and should be treated with a modicum of professionalism."

ABC News reports that a TSA spokesperson said that bags are handled by many people from the time it is checked until it is retrieved by the passenger, and there is "no concrete evidence who wrote the note." But if "inappropriate conduct is discovered," the agency will take "appropriate disciplinary action."

Meanwhile, a report in USA Today indicates that an unsecured, loaded gun made it past security in a checked bag at LAX Monday. The .38 caliber pistol reportedly fell out of a duffel bag that was being loaded onto a plane headed for Portland, OR. The gun's owner was questioned by local police, and he took a later flight to his destination.

TSA says that guns are allowed to be placed in checked luggage, but they must be in locked containers and not loaded.

FMI: www.feministe.us/blog, www.tsa.gov