Baby is put into airport X-ray machine

[tom h]

Baby is put into airport X-ray machine - Los Angeles Times

Baby is put into airport X-ray machine

A woman unfamiliar with screening procedures places her month-old grandson in a bin for carry-on items. A TSA worker watching the monitor notices the shape of a child and pulls him out.

By Jennifer Oldham

Times Staff Writer

8:27 PM PST, December 19, 2006

A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.

The early Saturday accident -- bizarre but not unprecedented -- caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.

A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt. The infant was taken to Centinela Hospital, where doctors determined that he did not receive a dangerous dose of radiation.

Aviation officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, said she spoke Spanish and apparently did not understand English [ "apparently" was a dimwit, too !]. She initially did not want the baby transported to a hospital, but security officials called paramedics and insisted that the child be examined by a doctor.

The grandmother and the child were subsequently allowed to board an Alaska Airlines flight to Mexico City. ...

[MeanBuicks]

And I hope she stays in Mexico City.

[Raymond Bunch]

Are people really this stupid

[josh watson]

know why baby carriers say "do not fold with child in carrier"? This lady is why

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by josh watson

know why baby carriers say "do not fold with child in carrier"? This lady is why

great !!! had coffee coming threw my nose after reading that

[tom h]

The rest of the story, which I didn't post, also includes inane comments from the reporter such as:

The early Saturday accident ... caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.

The rare incident drew attention to whether officials are staffing often-busy security checkpoints enough to prevent such an accident.

So the incident occurred when security was not busy , but somehow the accident was partly due to inadequate staffing at the "busy" checkpoints !

And,

raised questions about the danger of X-rays used to pick out suspicious metal shapes in passenger bags, given the medical community's warnings that even low amounts of radiation can build up over a lifetime.

What "questions" are those? Whether or not kids should be placed on x-ray conveyor belts?!

[Pablo]

It was written by the L.A. Times, what do you expect.

Personal responsibility? What's that?

[Turbo6Smackdown]

This chick reproduced?? oh MAN. i hope she never moves to the u.s....
Like i said... there shouldnt be marriage licenses... there should be reproduction licenses instead... I could care less who marries... but i care who reproduces though... good lord...give it another hundred years, and the average IQ of the planet, will be around 95 or so if we keep this up...

I mean, we breed dogs, to retain a certain desirable trait, (by just killing the ones we dont want), but we let these morons roam the planet. SOMEone screwed the pooch on this one. Shouldnt it have been the other way around??? Who gives a flying goat fu** about how 'intelligent' our DOGS are, when we got morons runnin around throwin kids thru X-ray machines...
Maybe I belong on another planet....