I was just thinking the same thing when I was watching the news this morning. How long until they start cracking down on the rules again here after this, and start searching little old grannies?
They just changed the rule to allow parents to wear their babies through security - ie I don't have to wake her up to take her out of the sling, hold up the people behind me, etc., now. Are they going to change this policy back, even for blonde, hair blue eyed women like myself? Because you know, my baby and I fall into that category of people they should be looking for. Oh no, wait. I'm not a 17-40 year old Muslim man.
And seriously, I hope when we fly to the UK at Christmas I don't have to taste test my breastmilk to prove its not a liquid explosive. I don't mind doing the smell test to make sure it hasn't gone off, but I really don't want to have to drink it.
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Your baby should easily fit in one of the little gray bins and you can put him or her through the screening machine. Much simpler than carrying them through and no chance for a baby bomb.
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Um, they never stopped doing the grannie searches here. I took my 93 yo grandfather (in a wheel chair) to the airport a few months back and the screeners asked if he could stand and shuffle through the metal detector. We said he could, but the moronic screener thought that meant he could stand and go through a proper groping, er, searching.
So there is my poor bald headed grandfather, with his shoes off and outstrected arms, his belt removed and his pants are falling off of him while he's wavering back and forth, about to fall over--all so a $12 an hour IDIOT can check off a box. I was so ticked off, you have no idea. Of course if you say anything you're likely to get face planted into the floor and arrested. I didn't want to put the old guy through that too.
You may not be a 17-40 yo muslim male, but you might be married to one. And you might be either a witting or unwitting accomplice. We need to search EVERYONE