Woman humiliated by border search over tattoo

[Uncle Dudley]

A Montreal woman says Canadian border agents made her strip to see if she had a pink tattoo on her buttocks after mixing her up with an alleged criminal.
Sylvie Menard, who has no history of trouble with the law, returned home from a relaxing Mexico vacation in April to a stressful and humiliating airport encounter with authorities.
Menard, manager of a Montreal wine business, is still seeking an explanation as to why she was handcuffed and locked up, then told to undress.
A female border officer asked her to pull down her pants and expose her buttocks to see if she had a distinguishing mark -- a large pink tattoo.
Nothing was there but the officer later returned and made her disrobe again to check whether the tattoo had been removed with a laser.
"I showed them twice that there was no pink tattoo there, because they came back to see if it was erased."

Menard says a police officer suggested she change her name to avoid future confusion.