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(2,259 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2012, 11:14 PM Apr 2012

Family Misses Flight After TSA Gives Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy [View all]

Source: CBSnews

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy which caused her family to miss their flight.

The girl, identified as Dina Frank in a report by The Daily, was waiting with her family on Monday to board a flight departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York headed to Florida.

Since Dina walks with the aid of leg braces and crutches, she cannot pass through airport metal detectors, and must instead submit to a pat-down by TSA agents.

Read more: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/04/25/family-misses-flight-after-tsa-gives-pat-down-to-girl-with-cerebral-palsy/

Tar and feathers seem appropriate.

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Family Misses Flight After TSA Gives Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy [View all] rayofreason Apr 2012 OP

Don't they have those full-body Rape-a-scan thingies at JFK?! KamaAina Apr 2012 #1

I'd prefer those PatrynXX Apr 2012 #5

I don't trust that the Rapiscan x-ray backscatter is safe waddirum Apr 2012 #21

You are wise not to... KansDem Apr 2012 #78

Thanks waddirum Apr 2012 #81

She would have to be able to stand with her hands up in the air to go through one of those. LisaL Apr 2012 #9

Exactly. n/t Gormy Cuss Apr 2012 #43

They'd be arrested for child porn if they used it on her. Kablooie Apr 2012 #18

As the cartoon said, the terrorists have indeed won. nolabear Apr 2012 #2

What is the right answer? joeglow3 Apr 2012 #3

They need to use their common sense but at $8.00 an hour..... n/t schmice Apr 2012 #4

They make Meiko Apr 2012 #6

$22, 000 ain't so much, you get what you pay for. SteveG Apr 2012 #11

$8 an hour is no excuse. Who hired them? Who in authority will not hold them accountable? AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #17

Random should include skipping over someone to pick another jonthebru Apr 2012 #8

We can just do what we did before 9/11. ZombieHorde Apr 2012 #10

Scanning this girl wasn't random. Bette Noir Apr 2012 #13

I have travelled with people who need wheelchairs and they give them the twice-over, too. MADem Apr 2012 #24

It's gotten way out of hand. Just to go into the court house, I have to go through 1monster Apr 2012 #26

Don't hold your breath...that's probably next. Auntie Bush Apr 2012 #64

Please don't give them any ideas. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #69

TSA screeners allegedly let drug-filled luggage through LAX for cash crunch60 Apr 2012 #7

That story sure landed with a whimper HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #28

What does a "Muslim TSA agent" look like? PavePusher Apr 2012 #32

That's my point HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #35

I was admitedly rather pre-caffeination satire-impaired this morning.... PavePusher Apr 2012 #38

Not all Moslem women wear head scarves, but it seems hedgehog Apr 2012 #39

It would make me feel much better about the TSA if that was the case HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #40

Behavioral profile is fine. avaistheone1 Apr 2012 #70

The Secret Service is now in Dept. of Homeland Security ... earthside Apr 2012 #12

As far as I can tell all they've done is finally allow us to take some water on board HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #29

Sounds like it was simply too much for the girl and she freaked out. dkf Apr 2012 #14

Then that just proves they're lead-brained idiots that have no business screening us. HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #31

A young child with leg braces and crutches is no threat to anybody. LibDemAlways Apr 2012 #15

Its not the girl they were concerned with I bet but rather the braces. cstanleytech Apr 2012 #22

Yes, let's put some more burdens on people HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #33

Actually I said 2 hours and I cant remember where it was but cstanleytech Apr 2012 #50

A crippled child, harassed by uniformed thugs working for the Orwellian-named sabrina 1 Apr 2012 #49

Well said. Boudica the Lyoness Apr 2012 #52

What would calling the airline do? Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #51

If you call the airline before hand they probably would have advised the TSA cstanleytech Apr 2012 #54

I will give you advising them to arrive even earlier Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #55

Well, they wouldn't. The airlines don't have that kind of clout with TSA. yardwork Apr 2012 #57

This isnt about "clout" to get a freebie to bypass TSA its about letting them know in advance cstanleytech Apr 2012 #61

You're kidding, right? /nt yardwork Apr 2012 #62

what was the ag dept doing with airports back then? alp227 Apr 2012 #68

Customs. Checking people's bags to make sure we weren't bringing in plants from other countries. yardwork Apr 2012 #72

This is outrageous. We're going to look back at this decade on things like this with horror that Honeycombe8 Apr 2012 #16

But then someone will complain about being profiled HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #34

waste of money - all theater and does not make us safer - worse waste of tax dollars for illusions 2Design Apr 2012 #19

You want one solution? Each time this happens, fire the person at the top. Sooner or later, one of AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #20

Four other alternatives spring to mind also. cstanleytech Apr 2012 #23

Politicians own stock in these scanning machines, so we will see lots crunch60 Apr 2012 #25

Thanks. Of course, that which gets rewarded gets repeated. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #36

Just like they own a piece of the for-profit-prison action... polichick Apr 2012 #75

ASSHOLES ! jerseyjack Apr 2012 #27

What the fuck happened to common sense? truebrit71 Apr 2012 #30

Like I explained before, this is by design. backscatter712 Apr 2012 #42

Exactly, it's a "softening" up process, the more we accept these crunch60 Apr 2012 #45

Yup. You are absolutely correct. truebrit71 Apr 2012 #47

Do you want to see a cut-back in TSAs? Stop flying. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #37

Vapid response to people's concerns. Do you work for TSA? crunch60 Apr 2012 #46

If you could post a more stupid question, and a more stupid response, I don't know what it could be. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #58

Obviously, many people just can't "Stop Flying" , so that is no solution, and obviously crunch60 Apr 2012 #67

I did stop flying. When going to the airport feels like entering a prison... Comrade Grumpy Apr 2012 #48

When the TSAs gave Joe Foss a hard time, as well as the pilots who going to fly the planes, AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #59

I was out in your "neck of the woods" last November! KansDem Apr 2012 #79

Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Boudica the Lyoness Apr 2012 #53

Excuse me, but that is an illogical reaction. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #60

Incidents like this are by design. It's coercive conditioning of the populace to accept tyranny. backscatter712 Apr 2012 #41

No stopping the madness doctorwho05 Apr 2012 #44

"People that work for the TSA are anti-liberty subhuman trash"... polichick Apr 2012 #74

This is disgusting. It's also another reason I refuse to fly commercial. classof56 Apr 2012 #56

I agree. Flying is so unpleasant and a hassle now. avaistheone1 Apr 2012 #71

Sickos. BlueIris Apr 2012 #63

this is ridiculous - just like that pat down I got in Denver wordpix Apr 2012 #65

Sadly, the terrorists have won through intimidation of the public. alp227 Apr 2012 #66

Good grief. I must say though that a lot of TSA people get it right... polichick Apr 2012 #73

The purpose of TSA is not to screen for terrorist.... AnneD Apr 2012 #76

The TSA is only making the anger swell in the people lovuian Apr 2012 #77

abolish the TSA Googlybear Apr 2012 #80