With Jackson still sitting in my lap (he was being so good despite all of this chaos) I said ok and continued to hold on to my son, expecting the male TSA agent to start touching Jackson.
He then told me, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I rolled my eyes and sternly told him “It’s his pacifier clip that went off, can’t you just run that back through the belt and let us go. We are going to miss our flight.”
The female TSA agent, who had been standing there the entire time said to me, “You need to adjust your attitude and do as you are told.”
The male TSA agent repeated, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I handed him my son.
I handed him my son and he walked away with my child.
My eyes welled up with tears, I stood up from my chair and I asked the female TSA agent, “Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?”
Read the whole pathetic story.
Found by Jalen Jade via Twitter.
Now for the rest of the story…..
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2009/10/response-to-tsa-agents-took-my-son.html
It’s all over Twitter this morning- she faked the whole thing. TSA released the security footage, it never happened.
#32 — well, surprise surprise. Again, I know full well that checkpoint authorities get away with being arrogant prix. But there are so many signals of hysterical exaggeration in the story this woman tells, and it’s so clearly emotionally manipulative … Let’s hone up on our critical reading skillz, people!
I just watched the TSA video. Wow, is that what people have to go through these days to fly?
I don’t travel much, so I have no first-hand experience with the TSA.
so why didn’t they put the kid through the xray machine and be done with it?
#31, JustSaying,
Thank you for posting that link.
#25, Number 5 1/2,
First, the stories about the brutes at TSA are happening all across the USA. We’re not safe from them anywhere.
And you will find that many of them are extreme exaggeration as we see here. I fly often and am always met with professionalism. When you know what is expected and help make their job easier, things go much smoother. Make an ass of yourself and yes, their job becomes a little more difficult.
Second, of course he TSA is only ever thuggish to crazy people. You’ll never have to worry because your a normal American.
I wouldn’t know. I’ve never seen the TSA act “thuggish”.
Third, those brilliant public servants at the TSA could tell that women was a terrorist in the making. They are as psychic as you, and know she was just itching to be a threat to you normal people.
So you now claim she is a terrorist? And here I thought she was just interfering with the TSA agents doing their job.
Fourth, only people you agree with read the article. Anyone you disagree with couldn’t possibly have read the article and come to a different conclusion. Not unless they are as crazy as this women who actually doesn’t like having her kid taken from her.
Anyone applying some critical thought and analysis to her blog would certainly ask questions about inconsistencies. Although I have no way of knowing who read the article, several people before me raised questions about the veracity.
As I said earlier, if someone takes a child, the parent will attempt to follow. She mentions only that they took the baby and she cried about it. If that isn’t a big sign something ain’t right then I don’t know what is.
Fifth, It didn’t happen anyway. The TSA is always kind to the people they control … oops, sorry I meant serve. Crazy lady just made it up.
Well, you got one right. She made it up and the TSA did post a video of what really happened. One out of five is still a pretty miserable failure rate.
http://tsa.gov/blog/2009/10/response-to-tsa-agents-took-my-son.html
#31 you go ahead and just say it!
Excellent post, that lying bitch, now I’m pissed off for ever feeling sorry for her. Her body language isn’t fearful or like someone with an anxiety attack. And her son was never taken from her. Boy that makes me angry!
Check out the extra traffic the story is generating for her ad-laden blog… jumped from 100/day to 40,000/day!
Hey, she may have faked it, but that doesn’t change the fact that Atlanta-Hartfield is a shit airport…
I made the mistake, once, of sending my toddler first through the metal detector before her mom and me.
Then, I set the detector off and they pulled me back. My daughter was panicked and on the verge of tears but the TSA people held her, not letting her come to me or her mother.
After that, we always had her come through between us. I’m not sure how single parents do it.
This is a completely false report as you can see from this video released by TSA.
The baby was never in the arms of the TSA. The baby was either in the stroller or in the arms of his mother.
My disabled severely traumatized daughter was separated from us (her family) AND her service animal. We won’t be able to fly for probably a year now — it will take us this long to desensitize her to the trauma from the TSA agents who re-traumatized her. Full story here:
http://inciid.blogspot.com/2010/08/tsa-violates-10-year-old-child-at.html