Again: 4-Year-Old Gets TSA Pat-Down Following Hug From Grandma
Apr 23, 2012, 1:45 pm
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Again: 4-Year-Old Gets TSA Pat-Down Following Hug From Grandma
OK, this might not be the most reliable source, but nothing shocking here either. Another apparently brain dead TSO treating a small child like a terrorist. I'm truly beginning to think that this agency intentionally hires psychopaths.
4-Year-Old Gets TSA Pat-Down Following Hug From Grandma
http://consumerist.com/2012/04/4-yea...m-grandma.html
4-Year-Old Gets TSA Pat-Down Following Hug From Grandma
http://consumerist.com/2012/04/4-yea...m-grandma.html
Apr 23, 2012, 2:46 pm
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Asw a 4 year old , now I am 58, I was really scared of needels.
So evey time I went to the doctors office, the nurse had to drag me out of my moms car. I was screaming and kicking.And of cause crying.
To this day I still hate needles. I dont really go to doctors. But I did educated in alternative medicine.
I know what they did to me made me not liking this
as an an adult.
Scarry.
Apr 23, 2012, 4:19 pm
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personally, I'd just have the mother and kid exit and enter the wtmd, a few sec vs a pat-down... but I've also been doing this longer than most.... (so I don't really care about the supervisor yelling at me for trying to avoid children related incidents)
Apr 23, 2012, 4:25 pm
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I'm not going to jump the the conclusion that the woman's story is 100% accurate and start castigating the TSA for it.
Nor will I automatically assume that she's making the whole thing up and castigate her for it.
As with all things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But I'll say this - I see two potential courses for this story: 1) The woman is being mostly truthful, in which case TSA will never release the c/p videos because it will show their people violating their own procedures by not allowing a 4-year old to be scanned instead of invasively patted down, or 2) the woman is not being truthful, in which case the video will be released quickly and will show that she's not being truthful.
If there is no video released within a week, THEN I'll start assuming that the woman's story is 100% truthful and castigate TSA for it.
Nor will I automatically assume that she's making the whole thing up and castigate her for it.
As with all things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But I'll say this - I see two potential courses for this story: 1) The woman is being mostly truthful, in which case TSA will never release the c/p videos because it will show their people violating their own procedures by not allowing a 4-year old to be scanned instead of invasively patted down, or 2) the woman is not being truthful, in which case the video will be released quickly and will show that she's not being truthful.
If there is no video released within a week, THEN I'll start assuming that the woman's story is 100% truthful and castigate TSA for it.
Apr 23, 2012, 4:49 pm
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I'm not going to jump the the conclusion that the woman's story is 100% accurate and start castigating the TSA for it.
Nor will I automatically assume that she's making the whole thing up and castigate her for it.
As with all things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But I'll say this - I see two potential courses for this story: 1) The woman is being mostly truthful, in which case TSA will never release the c/p videos because it will show their people violating their own procedures by not allowing a 4-year old to be scanned instead of invasively patted down, or 2) the woman is not being truthful, in which case the video will be released quickly and will show that she's not being truthful.
If there is no video released within a week, THEN I'll start assuming that the woman's story is 100% truthful and castigate TSA for it.
Nor will I automatically assume that she's making the whole thing up and castigate her for it.
As with all things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But I'll say this - I see two potential courses for this story: 1) The woman is being mostly truthful, in which case TSA will never release the c/p videos because it will show their people violating their own procedures by not allowing a 4-year old to be scanned instead of invasively patted down, or 2) the woman is not being truthful, in which case the video will be released quickly and will show that she's not being truthful.
If there is no video released within a week, THEN I'll start assuming that the woman's story is 100% truthful and castigate TSA for it.
Apr 23, 2012, 8:15 pm
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Apr 23, 2012, 9:39 pm
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The TSA will never admit they handled the situation improperly, especially since so many of them were involved, and they all acted the same. That woman should request the video immediately, before it's destroyed.
Apr 24, 2012, 7:18 am
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The Daily Mail has a great write-up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1sxAVHmrN
Apr 24, 2012, 8:25 am
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Now that the War on Terror is over, can we get the Federal Government of the United States of America to end their War Against Citizens' Rights?
Apr 24, 2012, 9:08 am
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Every time I've gone through ICT they've always been courteous and professional. This is not courteous and professional. It is senseless, unnecessary, and ridiculous. I find it amazing that a grown man hiring a prostitute in a country where it is legal is huge news, but treating a 4 year old innocent child like the Unabomber or Tim McVeigh is no big deal.
Apr 24, 2012, 1:53 pm
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It was Wichita. Home of the completely insane.
The Daily Mail has a great write-up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1sxAVHmrN
The Daily Mail has a great write-up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1sxAVHmrN
'When my scared child could not do so, two TSOs called for backup saying, "The suspect is not cooperating."
When a manager was called, he decided that the distraught Isabella could be checked alongside her mother, and let the family pass through security at last.
Fox has picked it up too, probably because it affords the opportunity for gratuitous politicking.
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes...terrorist.html