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What to do if the TSA takes your child

October 16, 2009

tsa checkpointNicole White describes herself as a 28-year-old freelancing writer, “tattooed liberal” and mom to a 16-month-old son, Jackson. She lives in Annapolis, Md., with her husband, Paul, a Navy pilot.

While White and her son were passing through the security checkpoint in Atlanta yesterday, she claims a TSA agent walked away with her toddler.

My eyes welled up with tears, I stood up from my chair and I asked the female TSA agent, “Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?”

Jackson, while being whisked away looked at the male TSA agent awkwardly and repeated “no no no no.”

I started crying.

Sounds pretty harsh, doesn’t it? After all, TSA promises it won’t separate parents from their children.

We specially train our Security Officers and they understand your concern for your children. They will approach your children gently and treat them with respect. If your child becomes uncomfortable or upset, security officers will consult you about the best way to relieve your child’s concern.

So what went wrong here?

Nothing, according to the TSA. Late Friday, the agency released the complete video footage of her screening, which shows she and her son were never separated and calls into question other parts of her account. It also sent me the following statement:

On Oct. 15 at approximately 11 a.m. at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, a female passenger and her small child processed through the security checkpoint. Following her trip, the passenger blogged an online narration describing her airport security experience and alleged that TSA separated her child from her during screening.

TSA’s policy is that officers will not ask parents to do anything that would distance them from their children during the screening process. Our goal is to provide the highest level of security while ensuring that all passengers are treated with courtesy and respect.

After reviewing the footage it is evident that all proper screening procedures were followed and at no time did any TSA officer remove her child from her custody, as was described in the blog post.

I have also reached out to White to get some details from her. She hasn’t responded. Curiously, she’s removed all the comments from her blog post as well.

It appears that White and her son were pulled over for secondary screening. The process took a little while longer than they expected. From her post:

At this point in time, my heart began to race, thinking we would miss our flight and I would be stuck in the Atlanta airport with Jackson for who knows how long until there was another flight to Baltimore.

The female TSA agent stood in front of me while I sat with Jackson and she continued to watch luggage come through the conveyor belt.

“Ma’am, can someone please just search me so we can be on our way? We are going to miss our flight,” I said.

The female agent then called an older gentleman, also a TSA agent over. The male TSA agent stood in front of me and said “I’m going to have to pat down your son.”

The reaction from the Twittersphere, where I first reported this issue, has been swift and merciless. Although one follower called White “high-strung” most of the criticism was leveled against the agency:

Some people need to be fired!

Not COOL!!

WHAT A FRIGGIN TRAVESTY!

Disturbing story.

At least we are safe from dangerous terrorist infants.

This reminds me of the Monica Emmerson incident in 2007, where an account by a woman who had a run-in with a TSA agent over her child’s sippy cup turned out to be incomplete. There’s always another side to the story.

In the meantime, what if you’re at the airport with a child (or in my case, three of ‘em) and a TSA agent nabs one?

If I’m reading White’s account correctly, this probably could have been prevented by giving herself some extra time at the airport. Kids always slow things down. There are pit stops for diaper changes and emergency detours to the gift shop for snacks.

Also, securing your metal objects is helpful. From White’s account:

The instant I walked through the metal detector with Jackson in my arms, we beeped. I knew exactly why.

I told the TSA agent, who asked me to back up and walk through again, “It’s my son’s pacifier clip, can I put it on the conveyor belt?”

She knew exactly?

If White suspected the clip might be an issue, she might have considered putting it in her luggage.

OK, so in the unlikely event that an officer takes your child, what now?

My advice: take a deep breath and politely but firmly insist that the child be returned to you. (I think the child will probably be making similar demands at this point.)

Here’s how it went with White:

Panic set in. My hands began to shake. My body was sweating. My breath was short and my heart was racing.

They had taken my child and not told me.

Jackson was out of my eye sight.

I could not see my son.

Now sobbing, I repeated my questions to the female TSA agent.

She told me “Ma’am, we’re trying to be nice to you. We don’t know which one of you went off in the metal detector. Stay here so I can search you.”

“But my son… where is my son?” I asked over and over again.

The female TSA agent called a second female TSA agent over as she began to search me. Apparently the second female TSA agent could hear me protesting and asking for my son.

“Ma’am you need to calm down or I’m going to have to involve the authorities,” she told me.

Now I was pissed.

If the woman in the TSA video is White and I have no reason to believe it isn’t) then the only reason to be “pissed” is that the TSA officer gave her a very thorough screening. But it never separated her from her child.

That should come as a relief to parents everywhere. I still believe this incident could have been handled better. But after watching the video, I think the TSA screened White by the book.

(Photo: Matt McGee/Flickr Creative Commons)

Note: This story has been updated several times since I first posted it. As a result, some of the initial comments don’t reflect the version of the post you are now reading.

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  • David Z

    Speech…less.

  • http://www.girlsgetaway.com Dian

    My 12 year old daughter was on her first international flight with her Aunt and they were separated. They were flying to Guatemala (my sister-in-law runs an archeological project there) my daughter was cleared but they wanted to question my sister-in-law further about her passport. They weren’t allowed to stay together…. scary stuff.

  • Marc

    I (like many others) saw her blog posting about this. I agree there is *plenty* of blame to go around and the blogsphere immediately jumped on the “let’s hate on the TSA” bandwagon (it’s so EASY to do it too!).

    However, I still believe the OP is a little too high-strung and somewhat over the top with the hyperbole in her blog post. She could have refused to give up her son (the TSA isn’t allowed to take the child anyway) and if the authorities were called, well, maybe she could have explained to them in a *calm*, *rational* manner what was happening (she was going to black out? seriously? because she was going to miss her flight?). She would have missed her plane, though, which seemed extremely important to her.

    I’m waiting eagerly to hear a somewhat toned-down version of this story from both sides.

  • http://www.mbcinc.ca Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

    I have been detained at the border between Canada and the US and separated from my teen daughters and it was terrifying. This incident with a small child is unfortunately very believable and sad. My heart goes out to Nic. I am surprised no one other than the kind woman who gathered her possessions gave any notice or offered any support. I hope lessons can be learned from this and policies altered.

  • Carver Farrow

    You shouldn’t be separating parents from their children. Disgraceful.

  • Janeen S

    I makes no difference to me if she was running for her flight or if she had hours until it took off, taking her baby away from her is UNACCEPTABLE.

    They would have had to call the authorities because they WOULD NOT have taken my child away from me.

  • Kevin

    I love how people are willing to comment without the complete story. Maybe there was a very good reason why they took the child? Who knows?
    While I agree that there really isn’t a good reason to seperate the child and parent, something about the imcompleteness of the details given makes me wonder…
    Basically, from the story, sound like she walked throught he detector, set it off, then they took her child…there had to be something else inbetween there…

  • Karen C.

    When traveling with my adult brain-injured son, he was taken away for secondary screening and I was not allowed to go with him even though I showed the TSA his Medic Alert medallion saying that he was brain-injured and had severe memory and cognitive problems (at first look, he appears normal) — they would also not take my word for it that within 10 minutes my son would have no idea where he was or why without me there to explain it to him. He would not be able to remember he was in an airport or that he was supposed to fly somewhere, let alone remember where or on what airline — something most of us take for granted. We lived through it, and while I didn’t have a panic attack, I was quite upset about the separation. It was completely uncalled for. I now travel with my son and the court papers declaring my conservatorship of him as an incompetent if it might happen again. Hate the whole TSA thing — it’s like they don’t use common sense.

  • http://wandermom.com wandermom

    Chris,
    I love your “like the good journalist that I am” comment and I know that you’ve flown often with your children and can easily see both sides on this issue. But, I also think that any mom, traveling alone with a toddler, juggling all the necessary bits & pieces into the TSA lines is likely to forget one small thing. In this case it was a pacifier clip. As a mom who’s also flown a lot with my children, I can totally see how that could happen.
    The TSA agent should have listened to the mom and allowed her to un-clip the pacifier clip, run it through the scanner and then have the mom and baby walk back through the metal detector. Done deal. No need to have the mom or the child go through secondary searching.
    FWIW: As an example of even experienced mom’s forgetting stuff going into the security line: I recently held up the lines at SeaTac for at least 10 minutes as my purse was scanned 3+ times. I’d totally forgotten to take all the little bottles of hand sanitizer out of all the little pockets :)

  • http://www.scrapbookupdate.com Nancy N.

    “If Nic suspected the clip might be an issue, she might have considered putting it in her luggage.” Come on, we’ve all done it. In the rush to take off shoes, coats, liquid bags, load all our bags onto the belt so that all our stuff is together and we don’t hold up the line…we’ve forgotten we had something in our pockets or a piece of jewelry on. Then the moment that the detector beeps, the lightbulb goes off in our heads and think, “oh crap, I forgot about .” This woman was juggling at minimum a small child, luggage, and shoes…it’s not surprising that she forgot the detail of a pacifier clip!

    It is unacceptable that TSA agents should ever separate a child from their parents during security. The fact that people just seem to accept this as a necessary evil of the process is a sign of how far we have fallen in giving up our basic liberties and dignities to terrorists. If we think it is alright for a 2 year old to be carried off from his mother by strangers in the name of “security”, the terrorists have won.

  • Victor Ozols

    Unless Nic is making things up, those Atlanta TSA agents screwed the pooch on this one. I don’t doubt that their jobs are sometimes difficult, especially dealing with high-strung, abuse-hurling travelers, but how about following your own rules when it comes to pat-down searches? Better still, how about using a shred of common sense and decency? I expect this meat head attitude from bouncers at bars, but TSA agents should be held to a higher standard. Okay, TSA, tell us what we’re missing here.

  • Aimee

    I was with my four year old daughter when the TSA pulled her aside for a secondary search. The agents were in no way agressive, but we sat there for more then an hour while they had to “recalibrate” their machines. I was never separated from my daughter and managed to keep myself calm (although it wasn’t easy after the first 45 minutes). Despite all of my efforts my daughter cried for twenty minutes because she didn’t understand why they kept taking her stuffed animal away and why I allowed strangers to keep touching her. I can’t imagine how upsetting it would be for both the mother and child to be separated by strangers.
    BTW, if I had followed the 1.5 hours early rule for a domestic flight we would have missed it by a while. All for nothing. Good thing the TSA is there to protect us from petrified toddlers.

  • Sarah

    Regardless of the situation and what the mom did or didn’t do correctly, she never should have been seperated from her child. That’s just plain common sense. If they needed to do a secondary search on her, fine, but another agent should have held her son right by her and not taken him where she couldn’t see him.

    I don’t have any children and hence don’t travel with any, but I can honestly say that when you’re rushing along to try to get through security, it is really easy to remember to put every little thing away. You forget to take your jacket off or remove your bag of liquids. You leave your car keys in your pocket or forget to take the video camera out of the bag.

    If someone going to be friendly, helpful and respectful to the workers they encounter, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a little common sense in return.

  • Mindy

    So why did the mom even let go of the child? Regardless, I don’t see the big deal. What did she think they would do to the baby, forget who it’s mother is? Sell it on the black market? As a parent I understand the anxiety.. But not the outrage. It isn’t like the sent the toddler out into the airport without her.

  • KF

    Aren’t there some legal precedents here? A minor cannot be questioned by police without a parent or legal representative present, from what I understand, so why should TSA be allowed to separate a parent and child?

  • Richard

    How much longer are Americans going to put up with being abused by these slack jawed, book-following TSA cretins? The government took the opportunity of creating a billion dollar agency staffed with people who would struggle to serve fast food correctly under the guise of ‘security’.
    In Europe people expect government like that because they’ve been brought up to treat it as the price they pay for cradle to grave welfare (which no longer exists)
    I hope before much longer Americans start to say no to this travesty.

  • Chicky

    I’m not a parent, but I can certainly understand why she was outraged. In that state of mind, all sorts of horrible, if unlikely, scenarios run through your head. What if they arrest me? What will they do with my child? Who will take care of him? Are they going to call child services on me for some reason? Even if these are hardly likely, I’ll bet they were running through her head–assuming, of course, that things went pretty much as she said.

    Obviously, take the pacifier clip off, run it through the scanner and have both go through the arch again. She mentioned she is “tattooed” and may suspect, probably with some truth, that the TSA personnel put her through the wringer because of her appearance. Had she looked like every other soccer mom, they probably would have put the clip in the tray, run it through the machine, then re-scanned mom and baby. Tattooed women, however, may be suspcious in their minds.

    I am reminded of an incident in Denver when a Chinese family was pulled over for secondary screening because the dad forgot to take off his belt with a silver buckle. I heard him explaining in his best English that the belt was a souvenir and he just forgot about it setting off the detector. Mom and baby were huddled to the side, looking miserable and terrified. She spoke no English, or I’d have tried to engage her in conversation while I put my shoes back on. I did smile at her and nod, but I felt so sorry for her. The TSA people were barking orders at her husband like he was a criminal, and he was doing his best to comply, since they didn’t have an agent who spoke Chinese. Of course, as soon as he got the belt off and went back through, no problem.

    I know the TSA has a purpose and all, but it does seem they enjoy using strong-arm tactics just a little too much, sometimes. Again, assuming things went pretty much as Nic said they did, there was a very easy solution to this problem, and the TSA apparently chose not to follow it.

    Still, I’ll be most interested in seeing if ATL, TSA or Nic have any responses to make that shed more light on this situation.

  • Michelle

    I have a serious problem with TSA separating a child from the parent/guardian. It’s insensitive and unsafe.

    As far as Nic and the pacifier clip goes, I’m thinking of a variation of the whole “casting stones” thing. Seriously…there have been plenty of times that I’ve walked through the metal detector with my cell phone in my pocket, my sunglasses on my head, etc., etc., and there have been times when I have heard that bell and immediately thought, “oh crap, I forgot….whatever it was.” TSA has always had me take whatever it is off or out, run it through the scanner, and I’ve walked through the detector again. When I had long hair, sometimes my barrettes would set it off. It’s enough to try to remember everything when traveling alone, much less with a child. The story might not be complete, and she may need to take more responsibility than she’s taking right now, but give her a break on the pacifier clip–everyone forgets something sometime.

  • http://aol barbie45

    Belive me me I am no fan of the TSA PERIOD; Iis a big irritating joke.On the other hand I think this woman is just trying to iniate some lawsuit; With her behavior she probably held up the line so other passengers missed their flight. Ipersonally think she is some kind of weirdo.

  • Andrew

    I miss living in Israel–anyone that has traveled to and from TLV knows what I’m talking about. Those young security men and women are tough, professional, and focused on their real purpose which is to keep their flights safe (not get off on a power trip or follow some antiquated safety procedure). TSA could learn a lesson or two from them…

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  • Kate

    Barbie45, I can personally assure you that Nic is not “just trying to iniate some lawsuit”. (I assume you meant “initiate”) Had you actually taken a moment to read her post, which the author of this article has so conveniently linked to above, you would read this:
    “I’m unsure how to end this post. I do not know what my story will lead to (if anything) but I needed to do more than file a complaint or write a letter. My hope is that this post of mine will be read by mothers and fathers, passed along to parents traveling with their children… most of all, my hope is that NO PARENT HAS THEIR CHILD TAKEN FROM THEM.”

    Nowhere is she spouting off about suing anyone, nowhere is a lawsuit mentioned. To insinuate that Nic is a weirdo trying to capitalize on her story is just plain rude. If you’re looking for weirdo parents trying to capitalize on their story, go take a look at some of this Balloon Boy coverage, and take your assumptions somewhere else.

  • Jason

    I don’t care what the reason, but there is no way TSA would ever separate me, or my wife, from our 17 month old child.

    We obviously don’t know all of the details, as others have mentioned, but I cannot think of a valid reason why I would allow anyone to take my child from me in an airport.

    In the event I wasn’t getting through to TSA, I would likely do whatever necessary to make a scene and have local police respond, even if that would be an inappropriate response.

    You never separate a parent from their child without expressed permission. Period.

  • http://www.zacheverson.com Zach Everson

    Am I wrong in thinking the best response is to enjoy a quiet vacation and just pick up your kid at the airport on your return home?

  • Passing through

    Zach.

    Yes, you are wrong.

    Elliott.

    Dont be silly. Everyone forgets something, and it didnt matter how much time she had, the TSA stole her child. I probably would have been arrested in an attempt to get my child back.

  • Chris in NC

    Whoa everyone…

    Until ALL the facts are out on the table, I think everyone should chill and avoid emotional and rash judgments. The truth may range anywhere from an overreacting TSA agent, to an overreacting mom (who happens to be a freelance writer). If there truely was an abduction, it certainly hasn’t been published on say the AJC, or other mainstream news.

    So, until I know all the details from the case, including objective observers in addition to TSA, I’m not going to try and judge anyone.

  • Ronda

    The Tsa should really consider creating a seperate family security screening area for several reasons, First off, to stop this sort of thing from happening. second, to make it a less stressful situation for kids, parents, and everyone else. Third the line will be smaller for families so theres more time for them to get through security becuase they tend to be less efficient at these check points. anf fourth, It will keep business travellers from having to wait while parents are trying to get kids shoes off, bottles empty, metal gone,and Lets the tsa make sure they’re not sneaking dangourus pies, or explosive sippy cups…

  • Kathleen

    Why are you posting this story when you admittedly have incomplete information from both the complainant and the TSA? Wouldn’t it be more responsible to wait to post until you have more facts?

  • Grant Ritchie

    Drama queen meets the real world. Farce ensues. Geez. Some people really shouldn’t be allowed out without a keeper, and this woman is one of them. God forbid that, in a real emergency, her little boy ever needs Mommy to act like, oh I don’t know, an ADULT. He’ll be doomed.

  • kiki d

    i have traveled with my (now 12-year-old) daughter numerous times, as we live in hawaii, and it’s a part of island life. if anyone tried to separate me from her, there would be hell to pay and i would not be calm. i don’t mind if TSA has to do their job and seach her, but as she is a minor, i darn well better be present for it.

  • Justin

    I have a meaningful response… Assuming this story is true, this lady should Consult the Media (check.. Chris Elliott) and a FINE FINE ATTORNEY to sue the ever living crap out of Atlanta’s TSA. They have obviously violated their own protocol BEYOND anything of reason.

    Justin

  • sevenwhitehorses

    can you understand DELUSIONAL?! I am not pro TSA however, this ladies stated behavour is exactly what one would look for as abnormal and even I would want her checked. As per her claims, will it would appear she is the one in need of training not TSA. Their website http://www.tsa.gov/blog has the tape of the incident posted. From the time she entered the detector until she was ambling down the concorse, nine minutes. The amount of time the baby was not in her arms, on her lap or in the stroller in front of her (placed there by HER) ZERO minutes! At NO time did any agent even pick up her child. She is the one who started this hail storm and if any ones abilities to perform their duty is in question it is as hers to be a parent if this is how she views what is going on around her.

  • Edie

    Chris, the TSA blog has posted the CCTV video of Nic’s encounter and can be found at http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2009/10/response-to-tsa-agents-took-my-son.html

  • Jennifer (the other one)

    Of course this shouldn’t have happened, but really… did she think they were going to sell him into slavery or bake him into a pie or something? It’s true that TSA agents aren’t known for their politeness, but that’s life. How long was the kid even out of her sight for – a few minutes? Her hysterical over-reaction makes it difficult to sympathize. If someone can’t get through a less-than-smooth security screening without blacking out due to the stress of it, they’re functionally disabled and should not be flying anywhere without a minder.

  • http://aol barbie45

    well. kate after reading her blog and seeing the tsa tape would you not doubt theis womans conduct just a little odd; and she is a mother; oh dear;and if just her side of the post was displaced lawers would be flocking to her,

  • DeVon

    Wow, I tried to follow her blog but it hurt my eyes. Her blog was just a little too melodramatic for me. I can definitely understand why she would be upset. However, there is definitely enough blame to go around here. Obviously, TSA should not have separated this mother from her child. That is a given regardless of their side of the story.

    I have to question whether this episode could have been prevented if Mom just took the pacifier clip off and put it on the belt when she was asked to walk back through before going through the 2nd time. I wouldn’t have asked the TSA agent for permission. Just grab one of those conveyor bowls for change and wallets, put the clip in the bowl , stuck it on the belt, and pushed it through. She could have walked through the detector. It wouldn’t have beeped hopefully, and called it a day.

    I haven’t flown in a few months. Things may have changed since I was in an airport last. But I didn’t think you were in a locked room for secondary screening. So what prevented her from going after the TSA guy to get her child back? What are they going to do? Arrest her? As long as she doesn’t put her hand upside his head for doing something so foolish. I doubt they would.

  • DeVon

    I guess they do have doors on the secondary checkpoints at ATL. Scared of yall.:) I just saw the TSA video of the lady they are claiming to be the one we are speaking about in the blog. If it is her, shame on you for raising all that hell in the blog and it wasn’t true. If it isn’t her, shame on you TSA for trying to pull the OD on us.

  • frostysnowman

    @Rhonda – Harstfield Jackson Airport in ATL does have a separate family security lane.

  • http://davenaugle@qwest.net planesdrifter

    Shouldn’t this have been titled “What To Do If You Don’t Investigate A Bullshit Accusation?” Pissed-off mom wasn’t separated from darling baby after all. She lied. If you want to take the time to watch the entire surveillance videos (they’re posted online) you can see for yourself and not have to take her word for it. Ya, airport security is a pain in the ass, but I can guarantee that I wouldn’t want to sit next to this lady and her kid on a plane either.

  • http://aol barbie45

    well it just goes to show how little respect and confidence we have in TSA;their foolish beaucratic rules concernong shoes’ liquids gels etc;when an obvious deranged woman gets sympathy from the public; watch the tsa video

  • Chris in NC

    Chris, I love your blog and read it everyday. However, I’m a bit disappointed in this article (hence the 2nd post). DeVon makes a great point. Her blog is not well written, seems more emotional than factual, and appears to be a rant. Seems to me that she needs to read your numerous articles on “effective” ways of complaining. Seriously, if you are in the customer service department, how would you respond to that type of letter?

    Having said that, I can already hear people saying “the TSA faked the tape” or “that’s not her” Is it too far fetched to believe that this was an incident that was overblown by a particular individual? There are legitimate incidents of TSA misconduct that are unfortunately overshadowed and diminished every time sometime files a “misleading” story.

    Ultimately, Chris, you published this story a bit too early. I feel that you should have waited until more facts came out. Contrary to the 99.99% of your other articles, I feel this one kinda fed into the emotional rants of someone making a “mountain out of a molehill.”

  • Kimberly

    SHE LIED! SHE LIED! Baby was never away from the mother. There is no debate, there is nothing to argue or mull over. End of story.

  • Tim G

    Chris, wish you would be as tough on bloggers who screw up as you are on travel companies that screw up. You let her off way too easy.

  • P.I.

    Just a couple of notes:

    Her comments were turned off last night before the video was posted, which is neither here nor there in regards to the veracity of her post.

    It was confusing to come here and have this post edited with the references to the previous updates gone. I read the post before you had the link to the TSA video. Coming back to check in, I wasn’t sure how much of your original post changed. For clarity, I think it would have been more appropriate to add the TSA video link and your further thoughts in an addendum.

  • RegularJane

    She was never separated from her child, she is an over-the-top, hyperbolic, drama mama. “eyes welled up, I sobbed, over and over”. This whackadoo sounds like she is writing a screenplay, not telling her side of an incident.

    On a side note, 16 months is too old for a pacifier.

  • ozium

    Did you some of you folks read this post, or follow any of the links?

    She was not separated from her child! There are like ten posters that have mentioned how outrageous that is, but it did not happen.

  • http://aol barbie45

    the person i feel so badly for is the husband; he is member of a very elite,well trained branch of the millitary; just his practice drills are dangerous; he does not need this nonsense from his with with of a wife; the embarassment and possibly the jeopardy of his career is horrible; my heart goes out to him , not this selfish monster.

  • P.I.

    @ozium, This post was edited a couple of times. When it was first posted, the video wasn’t available. After the video became available, the text of the post was edited, which is why the earlier comments don’t seem to make sense.

  • Stacy

    If you read back in her twitter stream (quick–before she deletes them too!) you see comments about how she wants to get paid to sell her “story” about this. Before the TSA video was posted, that is. Things like:

    MyBottlesUp @antibob eh, i can put it on my blog, but get paid if someone picks up my story… MWUAHAHAHA…. pay me for my insanity!!!!

    and

    MyBottlesUp @heartmychloe full story can’t be posted on my blog…. publishers want it.

    Prior to seeing the TSA video, I had commented on her blog that I was surprised she wasn’t arrested for swearing/screaming at the agents as she claimed she did. My comment was deleted, as were all comments.

    Now she claims the TSA video does show her, but it has been edited. They must have used CGI to place the baby in the plastic box with her, contrary to these claims in her Twitter stream?

    MyBottlesUp @badassdadblog not only did they take him away, but out of sight. i could not see him for over 5 minutes while they “padded him down.”
    MyBottlesUp i was in a plastic case closet w/ 6 holes to speak to whoever had my son around a corner & in another plastic case that i couldn’t see.

    My what a tangled web we weave…

  • Jennifer (the other one)

    The original post didn’t include the video – my response (and any before it) was made before it was posted. Of course, I thought she was a whackjob even when I had no reason to disbelieve her… I have to say it: “I told you so!”

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