A woman sent her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, security officials said Wednesday.
The woman, who spoke little English and was traveling to Mexico, put the infant in a plastic bin used to hold loose carry-on items for security scanning at the busy airport Saturday morning.
Airport officials said it was an innocent mistake by an inexperienced traveler and only the second such incident there since 1988, when a baby in a car seat went through an X-ray scanner.
Oops!
C’mon !!! The TSA must have procedures to prevent this from happening. If they don’t then why don’t they and if they do, why did it happen? Even something as simple as a screener watching the containers enter the machine.
“A little radiation never hurt anyone”
– Chernobyl resident
I feel sorry for this woman, and strongly believe the TSA should review this matter and determine how it can be prevented from happening again.
They didn’t find that swiss army knife inside the kid, did they?
Oh well, just think, if the kid glows enough, the family will be spending less on lighting.
1. I agree in an airport like LAX. But in small town airports it could be easily done. In departing some US Territories, there is nothing but a bored screener siiting behind the XRAY watching the monitor.
From the story the woman sounds like the perfect canidate for the TSA. I have yet to find a security worker that was hired because they had brain power.
I wonder if she got a job application as she was putting her shoes back on.
What about that Zippo in the diaper?
Look at the bright side(and I don’t mean the glowing kid), at least 2 Mexicans went back to Mexico on their own. 🙂
Don’t mean to be picky, but that’s a post mortem radiograph.
Sure blame the TSA. Let’s cause the government to hire an additional person at every single x-ray machine at every single airport nation wide because something that causes no damge has happened exactly twice since 1988.
Yes, let’s blame the TSA. It’s their system, and their job to prevent accidents like this.
Did you take too much radiation at some point in your life, or were you born this stupid?
It has happened exactly twice since 1988 so the forst time the TSA wasn’t even around then.
I personally think the child should be taken away and raised by the TSA.
“Yea, uh-huh go ahead, put him in there”
#9 — actually it’s a “Statscan” digital radiograph — designed especially for ER work, it can produce a whole-body image in 13 seconds.
Yeah, just a slight oversight by the TSA. At least we could say they are being a bit more thorough in they’re searches of our carry on.
Yeah, just a slight oversight by the TSA. At least we could say they are being a bit more thorough in they’re searches of our carry-on’s right!