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Old Jun 15, 2007 | 12:15 am
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Originally Posted by PHLflying
The children angle reminds me of something very scary and sad I saw at CMH recently. A mom was going through the line with an approx 4-6 year old son. ID checker checks mom's ID and BP, looks at child's BP and then stoops down and looks at the child

"What is your name"?
The other day I was flying with my son on a US domestic flight. He is clearly under 15 but still deserves to be treated as a person just like the rest of us. They ID checker asked me how old he was. I said, "Why don't you ask him?" After the second go-round of this they did ask him. Of course, they had his passport in hand when they asked so they could easily have checked themselves.
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