Flying out of ATL yesterday after a misconnection due to broken lav door (finally fixed with duct tape!) there was a family of mom, dad and 3 kids who all were under 6 or so behind me in the security line. Every now and then (like every 20 seconds) a TSO barker would come out from the screening area and yell out "Everyone have your boarding passes out! Take off your shoes, coats, jackets, hats, gloves and sweaters and put them in the x-ray!"

As I putting my laptop back into its bag, one of the vacation brood came through the WTMD and it beeped. The TSO lady YELLED at the little kid "Go back through there and come back inside again and DON'T TOUCH the sides of the machine!" The mom was horrified that someone would speak in such a fashion to a 5 year old. One of the other TSOs kinda yelled at the woman..."You ought to be ashamed of yourself yelling at a little kid like that! You sounded like my 3rd grade teacher!" I didn't see what else happened but the fire in mom's eyes and way she yelled "Hey, you--come HERE!" to the TSO who yelled at her child led me to beleive that someone was going to be taken down a peg or three.