Continental Airlines isn’t commenting on why a 4-year-old boy was stopped repeatedly from boarding flights when his name turned up on a “no-fly” list.
Continental Airlines ticket agents in Houston and New York stopped Edward Allen of Houston and his mom, Sijollie Allen, and demanded IDs.
That’s because another Edward Allen is on the Transportation Security Administration’s “no-fly” list.
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“I get the impression that all those idiotic zero-tolerance school administrators, who have no clue how to make a judgment call, are now working for the airlines.”
These same kind of “can not vary from the check list” drones are the same type that many many companies have working their customer service lines. Thats what happens when you employee morons in these jobs.
gquaglia…
Wrong. That’s what happens when the employer or gubmint provide idiotic rules that cannot be deviated from. When common sense is applied by the employee, they usually end up fired.
you ever have one of those little monsters dump a load near you on a plane? talk about your WMD’s…not to mention the noise that comes out of those things. I say ban ’em all until they learn to STFU and control their bodily functions (realizing some people never master these skills)
TSA employees, common sense, you must be kidding. If they didn’t have that job, they would be making fredom fries at mcdonalds.
OK paul, you win this round!
Maybe it’s an identity theft thing, or, and I can hear this: Just because you look four does not mean you are four…
How is it that common sense, once a valued trait, is now beaten out of such a large percentage of the population? I blame the schools for creating a climate of “do as you are told, or else”.
The reality is…the real con artists/evil doers are skating about, while the regular folk are struggling with the officials.
“Continental Airlines isn’t commenting on why a 4-year-old boy was stopped repeatedly from boarding flights when his name turned up on a “no-fly” list.”
The article definitely says 4-year-old BOY. The word baby didn’t even appear in the blurb above.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The No Fly List is one of the stupidest thing ever devised by the government to protect us. It ranks right up there with such other dillys like lining a closet with sheet plastic and duct tap; sure to asphyxiate any occupants.
Any true criminal mind surely knows that they must remain undercover and so would either use a safe identity or travel another way. With “hardened cockpits” and federal marshals on the planes, it would be very foolhardy to try to commandeer a plane.
If my name was Edward Allen I would be asking the TSA why my name is on the list.
Thanks for pointing that out Pat. I thought I fixed the title, paul already complained about it. It appears I didn’t fix it everywhere. It should say “kid” now. Sorry.
Not only is it worthless, it’s expensive (estimates of up to a billion): http://www.hsaj.org/?article=5.1.6