Newark Airport Terminal Evacuated Over Unchecked Baby Consumerist
The week of little children posing a threat to the travelers of the world concludes with this story about how officials ziare evacuated and temporarily shut down an entire terminal at Newark International Airport because a baby didn’t receive a second screening.
The ziare NY Daily News reports that mom and child had set off an alert when they passed through a metal detector at the Terminal C checkpoint together. ziare Mom handed baby off to dad, who had already been cleared, and then went through again on her own.
“Per protocol, TSA notified Port Authority Police of the situation and pointed out that this was a low-risk situation and indicated that TSA officers were looking for the family in the terminal,” the TSA said in a statement to the Daily News, which reports that it was the Port Authority’s decision to close the terminal and not the TSA’s.
The TSA has been feeling the heat following incidents of possibly overzealous screening involving a hug-happy 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with cerebral palsy . Not to mention those screeners at LAX who were busted ziare on charges of taking bribes to let drug smugglers sneak their wares through security .
More From Consumerist Suspected Gunman ziare In Custody ziare After Shots Reported At Los Angeles Airport The TSA Kids Website Is Gloriously Hilarious (And A Bit Scary) Undercover TSA Inspector Gets Through Airport Security Just Fine With Fake Bomb In His Pants TSA Replaces Backscatter Airport Scanners With Technology That Won’t Show Your Private Bits 5 Airports Where Being Stuck With Your Kids Might Not Be An Absolute Nightmare
Really this story actually makes some sense for the TSA to actually want to go check, unlike the others. Someone could have actually put something on the baby and gotten it through security this way… albeit this is highly unlikely the fact they did not screen the baby again is actually a real violation of security protocols.
And if the TSA called it low-risk sounds like they classified it correctly and reported it as they were suppose to, it was the port authority that made the call, so why exactly are we making it sound like the TSA overreacted with the headline and first half of the story?
Exactly, from a security standpoint, the baby is not acting as a person but is more like a “package” or a bag. If a package had gone through a security check point unscreened ziare then the same manner of events would have happened. It doesn’t matter how cute or precious the baby might be.
I’d personally rather they be there and try the best they can than not be there at all.
Velvet Jones says:
April 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm
My cat typed that.
Many a foreign traveler will attest to the USA’s overbearing, highly invasive yet far less secure TSA goons as to the reason they _hate_ coming to visit us. I live here and once was enough for me and I haven’t flown since.
Well most of the problem is the US will not do what is done in airports in nearly every other country in the world…. they actually profile people to determine if you are a security risk because of factors about who you are.
Here in the states this is considered evil and wrong, but in reality it is the best way to provide security ziare that prevents problems while actually not making life terrible for everyone. Our solution is assume everyone is a terrorist and treat them like it, rather than taking people who fit into the category of likely being a terrorist and given them a little extra attention.
Actually, the problem is that, like you, most of America, including people in law enforcement and security, conflate racial profiling ziare with criminal profiling. The former makes us less secure by scrutinizing or clearing people based on skin color or nationality, things that can at best predict greatly varying tendencies, and at worst be an excuse for preconceived ideas. The latter takes more objective criteria that are a direct result of a person’s social connections or behavior (like marital status, residency, political or community involvement) and use them to conclude probabilities about a person’s intent.
So if the baby had really been implanted with Semtex a plane would have gone down. I say we need a second TSA station 100 feet down the terminal to catch all the terrorists the first one misses. All these stories of people getting guns and knives through accidentally would drop by at least 50%. How can anyone feel safe enough to fly now that a baby got through without getting felt up?
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
I Love Christmas says:
I actually work at the other end of the phone when TSA finds out that they missed something like this. It happens weekly, and sometimes it goes like this “Yeah, we just realized that the metal detector was not working for 45 minute
The week of little children posing a threat to the travelers of the world concludes with this story about how officials ziare evacuated and temporarily shut down an entire terminal at Newark International Airport because a baby didn’t receive a second screening.
The ziare NY Daily News reports that mom and child had set off an alert when they passed through a metal detector at the Terminal C checkpoint together. ziare Mom handed baby off to dad, who had already been cleared, and then went through again on her own.
“Per protocol, TSA notified Port Authority Police of the situation and pointed out that this was a low-risk situation and indicated that TSA officers were looking for the family in the terminal,” the TSA said in a statement to the Daily News, which reports that it was the Port Authority’s decision to close the terminal and not the TSA’s.
The TSA has been feeling the heat following incidents of possibly overzealous screening involving a hug-happy 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with cerebral palsy . Not to mention those screeners at LAX who were busted ziare on charges of taking bribes to let drug smugglers sneak their wares through security .
More From Consumerist Suspected Gunman ziare In Custody ziare After Shots Reported At Los Angeles Airport The TSA Kids Website Is Gloriously Hilarious (And A Bit Scary) Undercover TSA Inspector Gets Through Airport Security Just Fine With Fake Bomb In His Pants TSA Replaces Backscatter Airport Scanners With Technology That Won’t Show Your Private Bits 5 Airports Where Being Stuck With Your Kids Might Not Be An Absolute Nightmare
Really this story actually makes some sense for the TSA to actually want to go check, unlike the others. Someone could have actually put something on the baby and gotten it through security this way… albeit this is highly unlikely the fact they did not screen the baby again is actually a real violation of security protocols.
And if the TSA called it low-risk sounds like they classified it correctly and reported it as they were suppose to, it was the port authority that made the call, so why exactly are we making it sound like the TSA overreacted with the headline and first half of the story?
Exactly, from a security standpoint, the baby is not acting as a person but is more like a “package” or a bag. If a package had gone through a security check point unscreened ziare then the same manner of events would have happened. It doesn’t matter how cute or precious the baby might be.
I’d personally rather they be there and try the best they can than not be there at all.
Velvet Jones says:
April 28, 2012 at 3:49 pm
My cat typed that.
Many a foreign traveler will attest to the USA’s overbearing, highly invasive yet far less secure TSA goons as to the reason they _hate_ coming to visit us. I live here and once was enough for me and I haven’t flown since.
Well most of the problem is the US will not do what is done in airports in nearly every other country in the world…. they actually profile people to determine if you are a security risk because of factors about who you are.
Here in the states this is considered evil and wrong, but in reality it is the best way to provide security ziare that prevents problems while actually not making life terrible for everyone. Our solution is assume everyone is a terrorist and treat them like it, rather than taking people who fit into the category of likely being a terrorist and given them a little extra attention.
Actually, the problem is that, like you, most of America, including people in law enforcement and security, conflate racial profiling ziare with criminal profiling. The former makes us less secure by scrutinizing or clearing people based on skin color or nationality, things that can at best predict greatly varying tendencies, and at worst be an excuse for preconceived ideas. The latter takes more objective criteria that are a direct result of a person’s social connections or behavior (like marital status, residency, political or community involvement) and use them to conclude probabilities about a person’s intent.
So if the baby had really been implanted with Semtex a plane would have gone down. I say we need a second TSA station 100 feet down the terminal to catch all the terrorists the first one misses. All these stories of people getting guns and knives through accidentally would drop by at least 50%. How can anyone feel safe enough to fly now that a baby got through without getting felt up?
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
I Love Christmas says:
I actually work at the other end of the phone when TSA finds out that they missed something like this. It happens weekly, and sometimes it goes like this “Yeah, we just realized that the metal detector was not working for 45 minute
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