TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.

Comments

Re:Lots of pilots and flight attendants...

[blair1q]

And there's a reason for that. Check out the "buxom younger woman" in this video:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/16/the-inevitable-taiwa.html

There are those who say the terrorists have already won.

Terrorist anchor babies

[fermion]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has stated on multiple occasions that illegal aliens come to the US to have babies which they then raise to be terrorists, or use as human bombs that will pass security checks simply because the baby has a US papers, even though the parents are from terrorist countries, for instance, to choose a random country that is so dangerous that US citizens are prevented travel, Cuba. Recall that n the later part of 1962 Cuba tried to nuke the US out of existence. While we might suspect a Cuban adult, and do a virtual strip search, who would suspect that a Cuban baby was filled with plastique. Clearly, we must search babies, because, as was said in congress, if given a choice people would chose a thoroughly screened plane than an completely unscreened plane.

And if we think this anchor baby threat is to be taken lightly, realize that we have at least on anchor baby in congress. This anchor baby has access to the top leaders of the US and all our security plans. In one step, he could give Cuba, who is still under the same government that wanted to kill every man, woman and child in US, the means and opportunity to kill every man, woman, and child in the US.

I never have problems with TSA anymore

[Vinegar Joe]

I simply wear a kilt and go commando.

Re:I never have problems with TSA anymore

[Lemmy Caution]

Ah, it's the True Scotsman Phallacy.

Re:My First Cavity Search

[tmosley]

I, for one, won't feel safe until we replace all TSA workers with members of the clergy. They are the only ones we can trust our children with.

Re:Terrorism is EXTREMELY RARE

[antifoidulus]

Obligatory Dave Attell:

"If you are really afraid of terrorism, don't travel by airplane, travel by bus. You ever been to a bus station? People walking around all dirty, in rags. A terrorist goes to a bus station and sees this and thinks, 'damn, someone already did up this joint'"

Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re

[rleibman]

You're right. The whole thing is security theatre at its finest. That's been true for years. Does anybody really think that an old ladies sewing needles are a threat to the airplane?

Of course they are, they could knit an Afghan... thanks, I'll be here all night.

Re:TSA applying pressure to submit to AIT

[jtownatpunk.net]

OMG, you just gave me a good idea. As soon as the screener's hand "meets resistance", curl up in a ball and start crying, "No, Father Jim, no!" Probably get a meal voucher and a free flight.

TSA has a new mascot

[Phizzle]

its the PEDOBEAR!

Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re

[Obfuscant]

If you set the metal detector off it's never a "oh, must be your shoes, you can go." It's always, take whatever you have on off, and if you set it off a 2nd time you get the full pat down.

Before the "take off your shoes" nonsense, I used to wear lightweight hiking shoes when flying. Better ankle support. So, one time I'm flying out of PDX (Portland OR) and I go through the metal detector -- BING BING!

I get wanded, and when they get to my feet, BING BING! They make me take them off and then carry them over to another Xray machine. The dope is telling me "your shoes have metal plates in them. " I know that is ridiculous. It's a lie. I say so. The dope tells me, well, sometimes they put a metal plate in the sole of one "by accident". I say that he's full of shit.

So, to prove me wrong, he takes me over to the xray machine where he says the image from my shoes is still on the screen. Except what is on the screen is obviously a full-sized, calf-high boot -- not like mine at all. Complete bullshit.

What this dope did not know, or did not admit, is that the metal wanding process at Portland Airport was being done without raising your feet off the floor, and the wand was reacting, every time, to the REBAR in the concrete flooring. EVERYONE who got wanded had metal-shanked shoes! Obviously!

Security theater at its best. Or worst.

Now we xray all boots, even metal containing ones, so all a bad guy has to do is put his knife in the sole of his boot and take it out when he gets on the plane. Oh, wait, this is clearly impossible. Never mind.

Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re

[Tetsujin]

The rule works in principle, but we all know the part about best-laid plans.

They usually involve your mom?

Re:TSA applying pressure to submit to AIT

[CAIMLAS]

That is a pretty good idea.

I think the next time I'm (fucking) forced to fly (for work), I'll do something similar: I'll insist that I must be frisked by nobody other than a member of the opposite sex (assuming there is one) due to past traumatic experiences of abuse.

Even better, I'll get a note from a psychologist friend of mine who hates this kind of shit saying that anything otherwise might result in a psychological regression.