Airport security: TSA endangers sick teen's life

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3-07-2008 @ 12:57PM

Deana said...

We travel often with our special needs child. He has 6 medications, including injectable liquids, needles, and white powder medicines that must be measured on a small scale.

We carry all of these things on our person, along with the most important piece of travel accompaniment, an official letter from his doctors. We've never been questioned, even making 3 trips to and from London in the past year.

What that TSA employee did is awful! This is exactly why we travel with double everything for our son in checked luggage, as we carry on board. Anyone who has special circumstances should call ahead, make their special needs known every step of the way, and carry a letter from their doctors. Yes it's pain, but can save a lot of trouble in the long-run

3-08-2008 @ 5:56AM

Jeff White said...

Deana:

Good points, all of them. Thanks for reading!

3-09-2008 @ 1:12PM

Bobby G said...

TSA employees are NOT well trained. They obviously don't have PRE-SCREENING STANDARDS in place such as the U.S. Post Office does. I hear stories of people getting their friends and relatives a job easily at TSA for the sole purpose of collecting paychecks while finding ways to steal passenger belongings. Seriously, you can take one look at half of the TSA employees and they just LOOK stupid to begin with. It scares the heck out of me to fly these days because I don't feel the right people are being utilized for our protection. It's all low lifes. Has anyone ever seen an ad in the paper for TSA screeners wanted? Where are they pulling their resources from? Why is it such a secret?

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