The News wrote:
A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.
The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.
A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.
The infant was taken to Centinela Hospital, where doctors determined that he had not received a dangerous dose of radiation.
Officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, said she spoke Spanish and apparently did not understand English.
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"There's an obligation on the traveler to use some common sense," said Larry Fetters, the TSA's federal security director at LAX.
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"We're trying to figure out what changes we can make, short of putting up signs saying, 'Don't put your baby through the X-ray machine,' " Melendez said.
The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.
A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.
The infant was taken to Centinela Hospital, where doctors determined that he had not received a dangerous dose of radiation.
Officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, said she spoke Spanish and apparently did not understand English.
[...]
"There's an obligation on the traveler to use some common sense," said Larry Fetters, the TSA's federal security director at LAX.
[...]
"We're trying to figure out what changes we can make, short of putting up signs saying, 'Don't put your baby through the X-ray machine,' " Melendez said.
The rest of the article's thrust is that security workers are so over-worked that they can't even catch a baby going through the machine. Since the worker present DID notice the baby (and pulled him out) I think that's slightly unfair although I see the general point. Anyway... heh... baby in the x-ray machine.
Edited, Dec 20th 2006 10:12am by Jophiel
