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TSA Confiscates Pregnant Woman's Insulin, Ice Packs
7News ^ | August 4, 2011 | Marc Stewart

Posted on 08/04/2011 10:20:51 PM PDT by george76

Security Tells Woman Isulin Vial Was An Explosives Risk.

Aaron Nieman is frustrated, after his pregnant wife's insulin and ice packs were confiscated by TSA screeners at Denver International Airport on Thursday afternoon.

The couple has traveled around the world with her supplies and have never encountered any troubles before. "It made me feel upset and made me feel somewhat helpless," he said.

His wife is traveling alone to a baby shower in Phoenix. She asked us not to use her name for fear of security and retaliation for speaking out.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: amerika; insulin; patriotact; progressive; progressiveamerika; radiation; republican; safety; scanners; security; tsa; tsadishonestly; tsapervs; tsascreeners
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To: george76

She asked us not to use her name for fear of security and retaliation for speaking out.

. . .

People increasingly fear the government and that’s chilling.

Going to be LOTS of fun when they have complete control over our health care as well.


21 posted on 08/04/2011 11:28:11 PM PDT by Nickname
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To: Jack Hammer
The TSA has long since become a national scandal and a national disgrace, yet no one seems inclined to do anything about it.

Bush's fault.

22 posted on 08/05/2011 12:10:39 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Safrguns
I wonder if the airline industry knows how much damage this is doing to their business and bottom line?

I'm sure thay have the statistics. do you?

They sure seem awfully quiet about all this BS.

Maybe the press isn't carrying the message.

Every day... another TSA story... but nothing from the airlines fighting back.

same answer.

I wouldn’t fly even if it were free... just to avoid the hassle.

I'm willing to drive across the continent but not row across the Atlantic or pacific. And you?

23 posted on 08/05/2011 12:19:02 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Safrguns
I wonder if the airline industry knows how much damage this is doing to their business and bottom line?

I'm sure thay have the statistics. do you?

They sure seem awfully quiet about all this BS.

Maybe the press isn't carrying the message.

Every day... another TSA story... but nothing from the airlines fighting back.

same answer.

I wouldn’t fly even if it were free... just to avoid the hassle.

I'm willing to drive across the continent but not row across the Atlantic or pacific. And you?

24 posted on 08/05/2011 12:19:09 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: george76

TSA agents ... Stupid, barely literate thugs who, in the real world, are not qualified to ask “ Do you want fries with that?”

And these buffoons are supposed to protect the flying public?

Yeah ... Right!


25 posted on 08/05/2011 12:28:38 AM PDT by kschockeynut87 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my GOD, my family and my country.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Isn’t everything!


26 posted on 08/05/2011 1:14:23 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: knarf

Insulin IS necessar for diabetics. The good new, if such there be in this, is that her doc can call her Rx into a pharmacy in Phoenix and she can get more there. Or TSA could send out to her on the next flight and deliver directly to her.

Wasn’t there a major brouhaha post-9/11 about airline screeners HAVING to be public servants (using the term loosely), and not employees of private companies? That was really effective.


27 posted on 08/05/2011 1:22:44 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: george76

The worst part of the whole TSA mess is that the agency and their procedures are not there to make anyone safe. They are there to make the gullible feel safe.


28 posted on 08/05/2011 1:26:35 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA

No, it doesn’t even really make the gullible safe.

It’s all about sublimating the welfare of the public to the needs of the state. It’s why the TSA and the police are both acting like thugs these days.


29 posted on 08/05/2011 2:09:48 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

Yes and why not? People keep accepting it and getting on planes. Sheep.


30 posted on 08/05/2011 2:33:29 AM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: george76
It makes more sense why the TSA was advertising and recruiting job openings on pizza boxes.

they wanted a caliber of people that would just do the job as told, kind of like robots, regardless of what was involved.

31 posted on 08/05/2011 2:54:09 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The prescription labels are on the box, not the bottles. The labels are too big to fit directly on the vial.

Second, all insulin carry packs I am aware of do not accommodate the box. Carry packs can hold the glucose meter, a syringe or two, test strips and the vial.


32 posted on 08/05/2011 3:19:15 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: EDINVA

Yes, she could get more at a pharmacy in Phoenix, but most insurance companies will not pay for a prescription that is not about to run out. For example, I cannot get my refills until I’m within 7 days of needing them again. On a 90 day refill, that means if I try to get them sooner than 83 days after I last got them, the insurance company won’t pay. I would have to pay for the prescription out-of-pocket and the insurance company won’t reimburse me.


33 posted on 08/05/2011 3:26:26 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
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To: Jubal Harshaw

Maybe we should supply a few of these unionized folks with a dosimeter film badge for a day or two...

then we might see how willing they are to scan away ....?


34 posted on 08/05/2011 3:26:58 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: free me

I think the American people will stand and say, “enough!”, at some point.


35 posted on 08/05/2011 3:35:23 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

I hope so.


36 posted on 08/05/2011 3:45:16 AM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: rawhide
"It is the traveler's responsibility to have proper government issued identification and a boarding pass; to cooperate with applicable screening procedures and instructions and to communicate their disability or health related needs.

"Liquid medications should be labeled, and those in quantities larger than 3.4 ounces (100ml) each need to be separated from other carry-on items and declared to the security officer as medically necessary. A declaration can be made verbally, in writing, or by a person's companion, caregiver, interpreter, or family member. Liquids in excess of 3.4 ounces will require additional screening."

Did she follow their procedures or did they screw up.

37 posted on 08/05/2011 3:46:43 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: george76

sfl


38 posted on 08/05/2011 5:35:11 AM PDT by phockthis
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To: All

The reason we have the TSA out of control is first and foremost because we have allowed a Moslem to rule America and agin equally as destructive to our freedom the acceptance of Islam in America.

There is only several logical solutions, remove Obama and then adopt the Israeli profiling methods against a common enemy and that is the brainwashed dammed that worship Islam.


39 posted on 08/05/2011 5:42:49 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Daniel J. Ramsey 1956-2012)
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To: george76

My husband’s insulin comes in pens(syringes) not bottles, this woman is behind the times. Even when it did come in bottles the bottles were tiny.


40 posted on 08/05/2011 5:51:05 AM PDT by Ditter
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