A video of a dog getting a “full pat down” by a TSA (Transportation Security Administration) official at the airport has gone viral on TikTok.
The clip, captured on May 18, was shared by @matthewandpaul and has had three million views since it was posted on May 21.
Text overlaid on the clip says: “Guide dog getting full pat down by airport security.”
The video shows Paul Castle, who is from Seattle, Washington, at the airport security check area with his guide dog Mr. Maple.
Castle, who is legally blind and has less than five percent of his vision remaining, was born with a rare eye disease known as Retinitis Pigmentosa.
“Mr. Maple always gets a pat down at the airport due to the metal in his harness,” Castle told Newsweek.
The viral clip shows Mr. Maple walking through a metal detection device, with Castle waiting at the other side of it, standing beside a TSA agent.
The agent …