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Airport Screeners Order Mom to Drink Breast Milk
Josey1
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Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2002 10:27 a.m. EDT
Airport Screeners Order Mom to Drink Breast Milk
In the latest in a series of airport security nightmares, a woman flying from New York to Florida was forced to drink three bottles of her own breast milk before being allowed to board a flight at JFK International Airport - in an incident that has one prominent New York civil rights attorney ready to sue.
Elizabeth McGanny of Oceanside, N.Y., called WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby Tuesday morning to relate the story.
Guards at JFK's Delta terminal first "patted me down and made me take my shoes off," McGanny told the morning radio duo. "One security guard took my 4-month-old out of my arms and then they went through the baby's diaper bag."
There the guards discovered the three suspect bottles, McGanny said, and promptly ordered her to drink the contents.
"I'm not drinking that. It's breast milk," she replied. "They said, 'Either drink all three bottles or you're not getting on the plane.'"
McGanny said that when she asked the guards why they were putting her through the ordeal, they explained, "There could be explosives in the baby bottles and I could throw something at the stewardesses."
"I asked them if I could just taste it; if I could just show them how you would check a baby's bottle - that it was warm milk and everything. And they said, 'No,'" ordering her to "drink it all."
The nursing mom then offered to feed the milk to her baby as the guards looked on, but they refused.
After hearing the tale, Kuby, who doubles as one of New York's most-celebrated civil rights attorneys, suggested that McGanny call his office.
"How much money do you smell here?" Sliwa asked his radio partner.
"If I get a jury of nursing mothers - a lot," Kuby replied.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/8/6/92628
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Airport Screeners Order Mom to Drink Breast Milk
In the latest in a series of airport security nightmares, a woman flying from New York to Florida was forced to drink three bottles of her own breast milk before being allowed to board a flight at JFK International Airport - in an incident that has one prominent New York civil rights attorney ready to sue.
Elizabeth McGanny of Oceanside, N.Y., called WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby Tuesday morning to relate the story.
Guards at JFK's Delta terminal first "patted me down and made me take my shoes off," McGanny told the morning radio duo. "One security guard took my 4-month-old out of my arms and then they went through the baby's diaper bag."
There the guards discovered the three suspect bottles, McGanny said, and promptly ordered her to drink the contents.
"I'm not drinking that. It's breast milk," she replied. "They said, 'Either drink all three bottles or you're not getting on the plane.'"
McGanny said that when she asked the guards why they were putting her through the ordeal, they explained, "There could be explosives in the baby bottles and I could throw something at the stewardesses."
"I asked them if I could just taste it; if I could just show them how you would check a baby's bottle - that it was warm milk and everything. And they said, 'No,'" ordering her to "drink it all."
The nursing mom then offered to feed the milk to her baby as the guards looked on, but they refused.
After hearing the tale, Kuby, who doubles as one of New York's most-celebrated civil rights attorneys, suggested that McGanny call his office.
"How much money do you smell here?" Sliwa asked his radio partner.
"If I get a jury of nursing mothers - a lot," Kuby replied.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/8/6/92628
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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2002-08-07
by EMELINE COKELET
PORT ANGELES -- Police say a local man could face federal charges after he allegedly was caught with a gun during security screening at Fairchild International Airport, then buried the weapon outside the terminal.
The 77-year-old Port Angeles man, who police identified as Donald Craig, was not cited by police but could be charged by federal authorities for a weapons violation.
The incident happened at 10:30 a.m. Saturday when Craig arrived at Fairchild to board a Horizon Air flight to Seattle for a connection to San Diego, police Sgt. Erick Zappey said Tuesday.
Craig was carrying a .22-caliber Derringer pistol in his coat pocket, for which he has a valid concealed weapons permit, Zappey said.
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/101121
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
It amazes me that the security at the airports is so tight...and thats a good thing, as long as it doesnt go too far... BUT... is so lax in other areas... bus stations, trains... Getting into this country is easy... its the citizens traveling in this country that are having the hard time.... There is such a thing as overkill..What was she going to do?... Hold the pilot at "bottlepoint"????...
One woman's opinion
Rugster
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
Personally, I didn't think that was so outrageous ... a little overboard maybe ... but to drink it all is beyond stupid, reminds me of the thread a week or so ago about the adult toy that started vibrating and the embarrassment they put that woman through ... ridiculous ...
ZERO TOLERANCE has gone to ZERO INTELLIGENCE!
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Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!kimberkid@gunbroker.zzn.com
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Second, she should have exercised her right to dump the contents of the bottles on the floor, and tell the idiots, oops, i mean security guards to go get a mop. I for one, would be a very rich person if that were my wife. This new homeland security deal is B.S., wayyyyy out of control already and getting worse. the things they are checking now, have been present for years and years, if shoes and baby bottles weren't used before, why would they all of a sudden be used to terrorize us now?
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"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
and I will eat half a dozed scrambled eggs and half a galon of yogurt before making it to inspection...
The exorsist Vomit effects will pale in comparison with my reality shot ...... I will be sure to pick the one with the higger rank...
JD
400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
Just another reason not to get on an airplane.
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Place will be quaranteened for Biological hazard ........
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JD
400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )