TSA Pats Down 6 Yr-Old
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http://www.newser.com/story/116285/tsa- ... r-old.html
A video getting quite a bit of attention today shows a TSA agent patting down a 6-year-old girl. The video was posted on YouTube yesterday, Jezebel notes, and it shows the New Orleans agent running her hand over Anna Drexel's chest, groin, and inside her waistband. When asked by the mother if they can simply re-scan her, the agent says, "No."
In the video, mom Selena claims her daughter is also being given a "drug test." Jezebel reports that a TSA rep denied that claim to the Boston Globe, saying, "We screen passengers for dangerous weapons and explosives. I realize the mother of this little girl speculates that we're going to test her for drugs, but that couldn't be further from the truth." (The Globe's story doesn't appear to include that denial.) A Good Morning America report on the incident notes that the TSA says it is "exploring additional ways to focus its resources and move beyond a one-size-fits-all system."
A video getting quite a bit of attention today shows a TSA agent patting down a 6-year-old girl. The video was posted on YouTube yesterday, Jezebel notes, and it shows the New Orleans agent running her hand over Anna Drexel's chest, groin, and inside her waistband. When asked by the mother if they can simply re-scan her, the agent says, "No."
In the video, mom Selena claims her daughter is also being given a "drug test." Jezebel reports that a TSA rep denied that claim to the Boston Globe, saying, "We screen passengers for dangerous weapons and explosives. I realize the mother of this little girl speculates that we're going to test her for drugs, but that couldn't be further from the truth." (The Globe's story doesn't appear to include that denial.) A Good Morning America report on the incident notes that the TSA says it is "exploring additional ways to focus its resources and move beyond a one-size-fits-all system."
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The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
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*shakes head in disappointment*
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
I guess...but where's the limit ?
Undressing my 1 year old and checking her diaper ?
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Good question, I don't know what the limit is. I just know the TSA should be doing everything they can to keep us safe
and i had no issues at all on my honeymoon last month.
edit--if this was september 20th, 2001, i don't think people would be outraged too much. how quickly people can forget how dangerous this world can be....
Agreed.
And I fly quite a bit (2-3 times per month) and have no clue what all the complaining is about, never really have any issues.
beat me to it. pat down everyone for all I care. I have nothing to hide
Ummm...it may come down to that. For years people used kids as drug mules. When I was a little kid, they took my teddy bear away (she literally snatched it out of my arms) and put it on the scanner...that was in the early 80s too.
I agree with Cliffy, and TSA said that the agent followed all the rules. Fine, adjust the pat downs for kids, but terrorists are not above using any tactics for hiding bombs. If TSA excludes certain groups, it screams 'Hey terrorists! We won't screen these people, so they make the best mules!'
- Christopher McCandless
right. i edited my post after you replied. but something like 9/11 can happen again at anytime. people just want to forget about shit like that go about their merry way without being realistic.
shifty is an underrated word. I need to start using that more often :thumbup:
i'm a white middle aged man. leave me the fuck alone.
Agreed again. I am all for TSA doing whatever they have to to keep planes in the air, whether it slightly inconveniences me or not
so was timothy mcveigh.
hey. oh.
are you suggesting we send a uhaul employee along with every uhual rental to ensure our safety?
Hold the phone! Since when did 37 get put in the middle-aged category?
BTW, I didn't mean they should not do their job. What I find absolutely absurd that we even have to do this at all...It always makes me wonder about every event that led up to all this need for protection...could they have been prevented? If so, why weren't they?
The US used to be the land of the free...what's happening over there? :?
:think: Maybe this thread should have been on the AMT...
no. that is not what i am suggesting.
i am merely comparing you to a homegrown terrorist.
timmy wasn't middle aged. your comparison is null and void
I did not see anything inappropriate.
edit: and if that was my child no way i'm allowing that to continue. i would have stopped it. arrest me i don't care but there was no need for that thorough of a pat down of a freakin 6-year old. maybe maybe if her clothes were baggy or bulky maybe i can see some cause, but that was ridiculous.
Is all this crap really worth it???
And why the deal with planes? There's a million other things terrortsists could blow up and kill just as many, if not more people. Why are we only overly protected of planes?? Because of 9/11?
If they start blowing up buses, will we get pat down before every bus trip? You can cram a lot of people on a bus..
Living in fear is what they want. If you feel safer because of all the security, you are already a victim of terrorism.
well stated.
neither are you.... :?
BANG.
DONE.
and this seriously has nothing to do with living in fear.
ummm...it was just in the last year or so, a terrorist rented an SUV, planted a bomb, and left the vehicle in the middle of times square...someone thought it was suspicious so the cops checked it out, because the terrorist was too dumb to hook up the bomb correctly, it never would have went off...and another middle eastern man was caught at the Canadian border with large amounts of explosive making materials and maps of Seattle, Portland and LA in his car in 1999, BEFORE 9/11...google 'terrorist plot' and many news articles will pop up-terrorists are not above planting bombs anywhere.
- Christopher McCandless