In Brief: Man Puts Cat Through X-Ray Scanner at LAX, Passengers Go Viral With Concerns
Jesse Tabit July 02, 2015
Passengers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) took to Twitter Wednesday to voice their concerns after allegedly seeing a cat put into an x-ray scanner at a JetBlue terminal.
“The Skylar Brothers” tweeted:
The amount of screaming that's happening in the Jet Blue terminal at LAX is incredible right now and yet it feels completely appropriate.
— The Sklar Brothers (@SklarBrothers) July 1, 2015
While another user – “Sara Benincasa” – wrote:
I have seen people pulled out of the TSA line for knives. Guns. I have never seen the rage of the TSA when dude just put his cat in the XRay
— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) July 1, 2015
Reports state that at one point, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was deciding if they should arrest the cat’s owner, call a veterinarian, or just simply pummel him for allowing his cat through the machine.
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Oh no, da Twidder Folks are so poutraged that they almost form an English sentence. How cruel. This again seems to be a fuss about nothing. In ZRH, HKG, and SIN, I have witness checkpoint personnel [i]forcing[/i] pet owners to put their animals on the X-ray conveyor. In ZRH, the pax offered that she'd take the doggie out and hold it on her while walking through the metal detector but the police officers of ZRH security told her that this was against protocol. So this seems to be entirely normal.
Wait, wait, wait! ... From personal experience, I can fog photographic film with an x-ray dose that is far less than you'd find in a checkpoint cabinet. Typical dose inside a checkpoint xray cabinet is 1 mrem; a chest xray is 10 mrem and a dental xray is 1.5 mrem. TSA workers don't even have to wear radiation badges at the security points. Sheesh. This is a frenzy inside the social media echo chamber.
What is the xray dose on one of these devices? Is it even close to a medical CAT scan? (See what I did there, but also, serious question.)
"Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was deciding if they should arrest the cat’s owner, call a veterinarian, or just simply pummel him for allowing his cat through the machine." They should have called the police to have this passenger arrested. The idiots ought spend a night or two in jail and be prohibited from having any animals in his possession.
How is that "viral"? ugh, editors.