Comments on: TSA tells mom “go away” after confiscating baby formula

By: Duke Nukem

Duke Nukem — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:47:53 +0000

@barbie45
Verbal abuse? Lady, you better re-define your terms…Mr. TSA Bill would engage in verbal abuse on a whim, and you AGREE with him? Sounds like Michael Chertoff ain’t the only one on hte payroll….(wink wink)

By: barbie45

barbie45 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:33:58 +0000

Bill, I agree with you. There was no reason for anyone to verbally abuse you. My niece who works with premature babies at risk just had her own baby. She refuses to fly with her infant until she is at least a year or more.

By: barbie45

barbie45 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:12:41 +0000

Chris, would you please not permit people from personally attacking people whose comments differ from their own. Calling people idiots, stupid, prejudice etc. are incendiary and just rude. People such as Carver and Arizona who often have extensive knowledge due to legal expertise and extensive research plus considerable travel experiences both for business and pleasure have never resorted to personal attacks. They may disagree, but they do it in a polite fashion.which is often backed up by facts not opinions. Chris you are the most exemplary of all.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:52:33 +0000

These agents have no idea what it is like to travel with chilren- I am a nanny for someyears and airports have become an occupational hazzrd- in that as mention the formular is confiscated- the buggy is taken apart x-rayed as is the toys & everything else- I travel frequently with 3 young children. Airport agents are the most inconsiderate people on the planet- not only do I have to redress 3 children & myself- I have also to manage 3 children in a crowd while trying to reassemble a buggy – to hear”move on” or “clear the way” does not help- they create the situation, then expect miricles to happen- IT Does NOT happen as if by MAGIC- just an idea- why not have a que for parents/ care givers???

By: helen

helen — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:55:44 +0000

Bill is an idiot.
People don’t always fly with babies by choice.
My three flew the first time when they were 4 years ,2 years, and 6 months old. My mother was dying 1200 miles away and there was no one to leave them with. (Their father? His work came first, second, third and fourth.) And yes, the 6 month old puked all over me. Are ya happy?

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:56:54 +0000

We experienced the same harrassment at several airports over traveling with sealed 8 oz. bottles of baby formula. Every airport stated different restrictions, even though we were told when we called TSA that we were allowed 100 oz. of sealed bottles of formula. How do you get TSA to provide the requirements in writing?

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:09:01 +0000

Bill, you’re an idiot, alongside many TSA dip-wads.

Oh, and Kip Hawley is an idiot.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:09:45 +0000

@Bill: wow you are rude…some people HAVE to travel…we are canadian citizens with us green cards, we have to go to the us every half year (dads job is managing the company in asia) due to some rule that you have to enter at least every 6 months…

By: Bryan Smith

Bryan Smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:50:10 +0000

I fly plenty. I notice that they don’t have standard operating procedures, or a good, thorough training regimen. They have idiots. I use a CPAP machine to breathe at night. They told me at one airport that I should take it out for the XRAy so that they don’t have to use the IONSCANNER on it. Then the next airport says I should leave it in the bag, only to have it IONSCANNED with the same dirty swab they used on the last eight pairs of shoes. I started telling them to use a new one. Just think, a dirty swab being swabbed all over the thing. Then they become suspicious because I am actually in good shape. Turns out, I was seriously injured when I was younger. Can’t breathe good at night. But like I said, they don’t have a good training program, they fail to maintain any kind of standards from one airport to another. Oh, and I really hate the guy or gal that always yelling at me to take all kinds of stuff out of my bag. Really unnerves me.

By: Ed Lawrence

Ed Lawrence — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:19:07 +0000

Last year I went to Israel on business. When I boarded the plane for my return trip to the states via Frankfurt, I was surprised that I was allowed to carry a bottle of water onto the plane. I also didn’t have to remove my shoes. When I got to Frankfurt and went through security again, the water was confiscated and I had to remove my shoes. I guess those pesky terrorists aren’t out to get Israeli planes, just planes from the USA and UK.

By: Olivia Giovetti

Olivia Giovetti — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:56:56 +0000

Well thank G-d breast milk is legal. Otherwise you would have a whole slew of new moms pumping right before the security checkpoint so as not to carry and contraband in their C-cups.

Between the dress codes on Southwest, Nipple Ring-gate, and the formula regulations, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you have large breasts and you want to fly, chances are you’re going to get screwed.

Come to think of it, if you have large breasts, chances are you’ll get screwed either way…

By: BadKarma

BadKarma — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:50:12 +0000

Hey, Bill… I flew on a cross-country flight for the first time when I was TWO MONTHS OLD, jackass. Amazingly enough, I somehow survived that flight, as I did all the subsequent cross-country flights I went on before the age of 3.

Of course, that was decades before Nanny-morons like you declared anything of which you, personally, disapprove to be “child abuse”; and back when parents were allowed to bring the items necessary to care for their children on the flight without being put on a “terror suspect” list by the megalomaniac quota-hires of the TSA.

Oh, and to all the “Bushophobes” who for some reason believe anything will get better “when Saint Hillarovna is elected”? One word: WACO.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:38:34 +0000

I hope there was a good reason for that mother to get where she was going. That TSA agent was a good deal more polite than I would have been to a mother taking a 3 month old on a 10 hour flight! I hope the kid puked on her multiple times during take off.

By: Crissy Tuning

Crissy Tuning — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:13:03 +0000

To clarify things, we did have a canister of formula with us but since it was not “sealed ” it also was taken away. We called ahead and were assured we could take 2 oz. of liquid with us on the aircraft as well as a canister of formula. No one ever sepcified the canister must be “sealed”.

By: screwtheliberals

screwtheliberals — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:08 +0000

Are nearly all people this stupid!!!! No, not all TSA employees are federal employees. Check the TSA website and it will tell you that Airports can “opt out” of having federal TSA employees and use contract employees (http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2004/press_release_0412.shtm). Bad thing is these people wear the same uniform as Federal TSA employees. Do they receive the same training, held to the same standards??? It ways they do in the story, but who knows. I know the one time I had a more than minor run in with a screener who didn’t know the rules it was at an opt out airport that had contract employees wearing TSA uniforms.

And yes they do have at least a high school education, check out the job listing on usajobs.com. No, they don’t write the rules. Yes they sometimes make mistakes, especially when the rules change so frequently. Yes they all have supervisors, and you can ask to talk with one if you don’t like what you hear from the screener you’re currently dealing with regarding any issue. And the supervisors have bosses you can ask to talk to if you don’t like that answer!

You alway encourage the travelers to know the rules regarding airline policy, what about know the rules about tsa policy? They have a one page sheet that lists their rules that they update quite regularly. I’ve started printing it out and carrying it with me when I fly. When a screener tries to tell me that one of my items is “prohibited” I politely pull out my one page reference and ask them to show me where it is listed. I’ve done this once and they apologised and said they were wrong.

oh, and Brooks, maybe the reason that you’ve never met an arrogant Israeli security officer is that most people are not belligerent whining baboons to an ARMED security officer. Try dealing with some of the ignorance and whining I’ve seen while traveling, then deal with it on a day to day basis and see if you don’t get tired of it.