12 yr old disabled girl detained by TSA for an hr

jonesable wrote: Damn TSA done hoodwinked folk There is a congressional report about TSA's inefficiency and glaring vulnerabilities . There are so many journals and articles and reports about the wastefulness of TSA from the staff to the wasteful technology they've bought only to he stored in warehouses of no use to us. Also the body scanning machines they have can even check for weaponry in certain spots. I could go on and on but Im glad that Congress has noticed and have made cuts to their budget and I hope there are more to come.

I'll take the TSA's work in all of its short-comings. Something is better than nothing.

ETA: And this is from someone who's written in religiously about restricted items that I accidentally got through TSA.


Edited by dee1672 - Dec 16 2012 at 12:59pm

They could have let them mom comfort her tho.

Based on the article, I'm not upset by how they handled it. They wiped her hands, which is procedure, found something and had to check further. They couldn't just take little mama's word that it came from her chair, they had to check.

And her mom knows she would have really raised hell if they took her kid off in some other part of the airport... TSA does come up with a lot of bullsh*t but this is not one of those cases.