TSA screeners confiscate pregnant woman’s insulin
Transportation Security Administration screeners confiscated a pregnant woman’s insulin and ice packs Thursday afternoon at Denver International Airport.
The woman, who did not give her name for fear of retaliation, was traveling alone to a baby shower in Phoenix. She said a TSA screener removed her insulin and ice packs from a lunchbox she was carrying.
“[The screener was] like well, you’re a risk [...] This is a risk. I can’t tell you why again. But this is at risk for explosives,” the woman told a local Denver television station.
She said she was never told her insulin was taken.
Her husband, Aaron Nieman, said, “It made me feel upset and made me feel somewhat helpless.”
The woman had to arrange for more insulin to be delivered to her in Phoenix. However, she was able to sneak half a vial through security. (RELATED: I spy with my little eye: TSA rolling out new ‘behavior detection officers’)
“It was at the bottom of my lunch box, because they didn’t search it all the way through,” she said. “They just took out every thing on top.”
TSA offered this prepared statement to the television station:
“TSA’s mission is to safely, efficiently and respectfully screen nearly 2 million passengers each day at airports nationwide.
“We are sensitive to the concerns of passengers who were not satisfied with their screening experience and we invite those individuals to provide feedback to TSA through a variety of channels. We work to balance those concerns with the very real threat that our adversaries will attempt to use explosives to carry out attacks on planes.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/05/tsa-screeners-confiscate-pregnant-womans-insulin/
If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand
Attributed to Dave Ramsey.
This is happening alot, i hope we do something about this, before some concerned citizens do. Reminds me of a line in a movie "it was a mistake to try"
Mexican military helicopter lands in Laredo by mistake
A Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Mucia Dovalina, the uniform public affairs officer for the Laredo Port of Entry, said the helicopter landed about 3 p.m., but she couldn’t share details such as the number of occupants or whether they were armed.
Dovalina said that, following protocol, CBP officers checked out the helicopter’s occupants, then allowed them to return to Mexico in the aircraft.
“The only thing that I can tell you is that they did land here,” she said. “It was by mistake. They were processed and they were returned to Mexico.”
According to a statement from CBP, the pilot mistook the airport for a landing strip in Nuevo Laredo.
This is the latest such incursion that officials have called inadvertent as the Mexican military increases troop deployments in northeastern Mexico.
In July, a convoy of soldiers rolled across the international bridge at Donna and were processed by customs and sent back across.
The Mexican military announced last week that it had wrapped up an operation called “Lince Norte,” or Northern Lynx.
The 20-day assault on the Zetas drug trafficking organization used 4,000 Mexican troops, deployed mostly in states bordering Texas.
The operation resulted in the death of the Zeta who controlled Nuevo Laredo and the arrest of a man the military says is a “national level” financier for the gang.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7686830.html
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