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Baby put through X-ray machine at LAX
MSNBC ^ | December 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/20/2006 10:13:37 AM PST by Aggie Dad

LOS ANGELES - A one-month-old baby has been checked and cleared by a Los Angeles hospital after being put through an airport X-ray machine.

Authorities at Los Angeles International Airport say an inexperienced traveler mistakenly put her grandson through a carry-on luggage screener.

A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child and immediately pulled the baby out.

A spokesman for LAX says the incident Saturday was an innocent mistake.

In 1988, an infant in a car seat went through an X-ray machine at the airport.

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To: Aggie Dad

21 posted on 12/20/2006 10:34:58 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: Tenacious 1

ROFL


22 posted on 12/20/2006 10:35:10 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: RedRightReturn

They way babies are wrapped going through airports, it IS possible they just thought it was a bundle of blanket in the carrier. One month babes are wee things. The grandmother was daft to say the least. I'd cut the checker some slack.


23 posted on 12/20/2006 10:35:51 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: 1rudeboy

WOW, talk about inconsistency.

I must always shed the shoes and typically there is one running the cattle chute, one watching you partially disrobe, one watching the x-ray monitor, one working the metal detector, and one (or usually more) on the exit side of the scanner to conduct 'spot wandings'

This has been the case for me at PHL, Logan, San Diego, Honolulu, SeaTac, and Brunswick ME


24 posted on 12/20/2006 10:37:49 AM PST by RedRightReturn (Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
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To: Frwy

Was this the Gram's first trip on an airplane??? Where were the parents? Geeeesh. What lousy reporting....


25 posted on 12/20/2006 10:38:17 AM PST by Sioux-san (God save the Sheeple)
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To: Aggie Dad
Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis Against Cancer?
26 posted on 12/20/2006 10:39:59 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: gaijin
What is the general freeper appraisal of the average intelligence of the screeners they hire?

They often make the folks at DU seem reasonably intelligent by comparison.

27 posted on 12/20/2006 10:40:46 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It's time our lawmakers paid more attention to their responsibilities, and less to their privileges.)
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To: timsbella

Duly noted, but to put it ALL on someone who may not have known any better is unsat.

Then to refer to her as and idiot??? Ignorant, yes...idiotic, no. Accidents happen.

But someone who's job it is to watch this evolution and recognize the contents, dropped the ball. I find the screener much more culpable.


28 posted on 12/20/2006 10:41:16 AM PST by RedRightReturn (Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
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To: 1rudeboy

Well, if you fly out of Las Vegas or New York City they make you shed most everything, especially your shoes.


29 posted on 12/20/2006 10:41:45 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: RedRightReturn

UGH ... and my grammar and usage is no better :-)


30 posted on 12/20/2006 10:43:23 AM PST by RedRightReturn (Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
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To: Cheesel
" I don't think she understands COMMON SENSE."

Hence my tagline. Sadly, the screeners at the airport don't seem to have much common sense either.
31 posted on 12/20/2006 10:47:32 AM PST by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: Aggie Dad
Baby following treatment.


32 posted on 12/20/2006 10:51:59 AM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Alouette

Zee language of loove?


33 posted on 12/20/2006 10:55:30 AM PST by ichabod1 (After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.)
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To: Aggie Dad

Clearly the baby had less than 1 ounce of fluid in its diaper as it was allowed on-board and not placed in checked luggage.


34 posted on 12/20/2006 10:56:02 AM PST by nhoward14
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To: Aggie Dad

35 posted on 12/20/2006 10:56:47 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Frwy

She's not necessarily old.

"We don' knaw we hef to hev insurance.

We don' knaw we hef to hef driver license.

We don't knaw we hef to or should hef car seats.

We don' knaw we cannot or should not put our ninos through the xray machine."


36 posted on 12/20/2006 10:58:28 AM PST by ichabod1 (After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.)
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To: 1rudeboy

"I've never had to put my shoes in the bin."

You don't really fly, do you?


37 posted on 12/20/2006 11:02:16 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Kirkwood

Not since the London "shampoo" scare, I realized.


38 posted on 12/20/2006 11:06:33 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: finnman69

"Get your ass to Mars!!"


39 posted on 12/20/2006 11:07:27 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A liberal is a suicide bomber without the guts)
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To: RedRightReturn
NOBODY? watches bags going INTO the machine?

Why would you? There are only 10,000 signs telling you what not to put through. Although I concede I've never seen a sign that say, "Do NOT put Baby in Here!"

I wonder how the rads measure up to a normal x-ray? Not that junior needs one.

I think Grammy just lost visiting privileges.

40 posted on 12/20/2006 11:07:30 AM PST by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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