Newsstand - Boy Says a Security Order Made Him Sick

DENVER, April 5 — A 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy said he became ill on Sunday after security officials at Aspen Airport made him drink water he had collected from a creek for his biology class.

The boy, Elliot Gosko, said he was carrying a bottle onto the plane when he was told to drink some of its contents as a security precaution.

Elliot said the water made him nauseated and might have contained giardia, parasites that can cause life-threatening intestinal illness.

A Federal Aviation Administration official apologized to the boy and his family but said airport officials were only being careful in the aftermath of Sept. 11.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/06/national/06AIRP.html

Airport officials were only being careful??

No they weren't. They were overbearing and stupid. Will I have to drink some shampoo or contact lens solution??

If not, then why do the checkpoint idiots only suspect danger in a water or soda bottle?

Will they make me open a Can of soda to prove it's ok??

This is out of hand.

Maybe this is the lawsuit we've been waiting for. I am sorry if it took exposing this boy to dangerous microbes, but this crap has to stop.

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