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Offline Chris

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TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« on: February 15, 2010, 02:37:40 PM »
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Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan.

Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart.

The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.

Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.

No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.

TSA policy should have allowed the parents to help the boy to a private screening area where he could have been swabbed for traces of explosive materials

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/84368492.html

f**king ridiculous :censored:
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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 02:41:22 PM »
What if he had one leg cut off like my dad. Without crutches he could not walk. F....idiots.
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Offline thundley4

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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 03:17:54 PM »
In the mean time , Omar Abdullah is allowed to waltz right through while shouting "Allah Akbar".
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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2010, 04:42:55 PM »
F-ing stupid TSA people....I swear the people holding TSA jobs and one step above the "Would you like fries with that" people.
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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2010, 04:43:10 PM »
**** the TSA. Pieces of **** one and all.
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Offline The Village Idiot

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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2010, 04:44:10 PM »
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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2010, 04:51:06 PM »
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Offline thundley4

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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2010, 04:53:35 PM »
This guy was allowed through, no questions asked.

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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2010, 05:10:11 PM »
That is soooo bad.   :banghead:
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Offline rich_t

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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2010, 06:59:18 PM »
Yup....  Strip search kids and old ladies.

But God forbid you look twice at an arab adult male.

Shear lunacy.
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Re: TSA makes four year-old take off leg braces so he can't walk
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2010, 08:09:18 AM »
Shouldn't surprise anyone--this is Philly, where the TSA screener planted "drugs" in a passenger's bag a few weeks back.  That whole airport blows.  NEVER go there or fly through there if you can possibly avoid it.
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