Originally Posted by Spiff
You should have refered this moron to a supervisor for retraining.
This "screener" is not a doctor. He had no business demanding any use of medicine.
Please call the TSA Hotline and let them know that their employees are exposing the TSA to serious legal action.
While the cowards "in charge" of the TSA may be good about skirting privacy laws and shielding themselves from prosecution on most other matters, an employee forcing someone to consume a product in a manner for which it is not prescribed should be easily proveable negligence.
This is a good thought, but I may be able to go you one better...
...I would assume that the manufacturer of the spray is Big Pharm somehow. Call their consumer affairs number and tell THEM what happened. Believe me, the last thing that a drug company wants is a lawsuit coming from someone's else negligence/stupidity. Tell them that the TSA at LAX is advising that their drops be used "Off Label." (Use those exact two words.) Then explain how.
I am becoming increasingly convinced that it is Big Business that will get this madness changed.