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TSA screener accosts 3-year-old at airport checkpoint

Thats the problem with mandatory guidelines. Failed a metal detector twice; if TSA employees are required to pat you down then how are they taking it too far?

Tough to put the blame on the TSA or parents in this case
 
thepd7 said:
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Will you guys get a room? Make it big enough for 3...I'm joining in too...😛

Although, oddly enough, I agree with TFP, the sad reality is that "them thar terrersts" wouldn't hesitate to use a child to smuggle a bomb or other "contraband device" such as a knife or ??? on to a plane.

YES, the screener could have handled this situation much better...maybe, but the bulk of the responsibility here goes to the parents. If they can't control their child well enough to get through security, they shouldn't fly.
The TSA folks should have taken the child and parents to a waiting room, given the child a few minutes to calm down, finished the screening/pat-down/electronic wand search and let them be on their way.
The fact that they look like normal church-going white-bread Americans shouldn't factor into the decision one way or the other.
 
We have a culture where children are taught to be terrified of strangers and then we are surprised when they freak out at being groped by one?
 
The TSA needs to make that Amazon.com pedophile book mandatory reading. It could really help in a situation like this.
knowing is half the battle!!!!!
 
It's a pretty smart idea to smuggle bombs with a 3 yr old. Just saying. BTW out of control Girl parents needed a taze too due to incompetency in child raising.
 
Malak said:
The kid's a brat. WTF is the TSA guy supposed to do? Not their fault.
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This I bet you could smuggle 15 lbs of RDX on a teddybear. Plenty to blow everyone to smithereens. The ole child angle is getting old.
 
Zebo said:
This I bet you could smuggle 15 lbs of RDX on a teddybear. Plenty to blow everyone to smithereens. The ole child angle is getting old.
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Doesn't even have to be the parents doing the smuggling. A stranger hands the kid a teddy bear, who refuses?
 
The whole ordeal sucks for everyone but searching EVERYTHING is the only way to stop planes from blowing up.
 
Zebo said:
The whole ordeal sucks for everyone but searching EVERYTHING is the only way to stop planes from blowing up.
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When was the last time a plane originating in the US blew up in midair due to a terrorist bomb? Serious question, but I think it was the mid-late 80's. Clearly the invasive searching in the last year is not necessary to prevent bombings.
 
So said:
When was the last time a plane originating in the US blew up in midair due to a terrorist bomb? Serious question, but I think it was the mid-late 80's. Clearly the invasive searching in the last year is not necessary to prevent bombings.
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I'd like to play chess with you, and not have you doing anything with terrorist mitigation, if all you look at is last time. Richard Reid is the last even so.
 
Screener was wrong not to have stopped and told the parents they need their child to cooperate if they want to pass through security. The reason this looks bad is because she kept groping the child against her will.

Overall bad parenting for standing there and recording it so you can act outraged later. If you were really outraged you would have stopped the groping of your child, and used your parenting skills to explain why she was being searched. Then come back and try again.
 
I didn't see where anything wrong was done. Parents should have sedated the child. Of course, most parts got their filters going any are mostly immune to when their child is in that kind of mood.
 
Malak said:
The kid's a brat. WTF is the TSA guy supposed to do? Not their fault.
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This.
Don't blame TSA for that. The kid was tired, hungry, spoiled, whatever. Non-issue. Except maybe the parents could talk to their kid first about what is going to happen going through security. Maybe we can get the gov't to make up cheery little coloring books about going through security at the airport for parents to obtain for free to go over with their child.
 
lol some of you are funny. the screener while she had to search the child she could have done a better job.

she expected the child to act like a adult. that is not going to happen with 3 yr old. they need a better way to deal with small children.

the child is not responsible. she had no idea what the fuck was going on and didn't want someone she didn't know touching her. At 3 you can't explain why. The parents? nope they really couldn't do a damn thing. the screener? no she had a job to do and inadequate training.
 
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