Not Just a Mental Mistake
Dec 23rd, 2006 by Jeremy
I recently came across this article on Yahoo News. It is titled “Woman puts baby through airport x-ray“. I am not sure this needs much more explanation, but then that wouldn’t be all that fun now would it?
I have kids, four of them in fact. Kids alone can make you do stupid things as they run try your patience and generally wreak havoc. One of my favorite hot drink mug quotes I have read is “Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your kids.” So true. Add on top of that traveling by air, with the accompanying airport security frivolities, and you have a real circus on your hands. I have real empathy on people traveling with kids. I revel in the times when I get to travel without them.
Yet, with all that said, how could you ever put a kid through the x-ray machine? Even crazier, the article mentions another case where this happened.
Great quote from the head of security: “‘This was an innocent mistake by an obviously inexperienced traveler,’ said Paul Haney, deputy executive director of airports and security for the city’s airport agency.”
Translated: this lady should never again be allowed to travel with kids. She needs to stay focused on just getting herself from point A to point B all by herself.
Giving her the benefit of the doubt, lets hope she just laid down the carrier and the baby was so bundled up that the TSA rep didn’t notice the baby and sent it on through. Everyone here knows my faith in the news reporting things as they actually happened.
I travel constantly for my job, and I have to tell you, I have getting through security down to a science. I’ve never traveled with kids, but I cannot see how a woman could put a baby into one of those bins and pass it through the x-ray machine. I would just as quickly cut off my foot while I’m taking off my shoes and put IT in the bin along with my shoes. The woman needs to be examined closely.
Jeremy, I admire you for being able to empathize with her some, but I just can’t. My word!
I read that article and was laughing out loud. How could you blame that on inexperience? She doesn’t know that you don’t throw the baby into the black hole and hope it comes out the other end like a purse or wallet? Did she think they might believe she was hiding a bomb in the baby somewhere and that they would like to check? hahaha