In today's news of the absurd:



A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far.



Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA security checkpoint before boarding a flight home.



Peterson said she was selected for extra screening. First, security officers lifted her out of her wheelchair and helped her stand in a full body scanner. Then, she was given a physical pat down.



"They took me to one side and they patted me down, and they made me stand for, with my arms out, for over 10 minutes," she said. "I was beginning to feel that I wasn't going to be able to continue to stand, I was going to fall down or something."



Message to al Qaeda: You can't fool us with your whole "falling-down old jihadist named Peterson" trick anymore. Think of something else.