Baby Put Through L.A. Airport X-Ray Machine

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LOS ANGELES — A woman mistakenly put her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child on the carry-on baggage screening monitor and immediately pulled him out, the Los Angeles Times reported for a story in Wednesday's editions.

Click here to read the Los Angeles Times' story.

The infant was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he did not receive a dangerous dose of radiation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237742,00.html
 
Good Lord... next thing you know they'll have to spend millions of dollars with our US tax dollars to retrofit all airports to put a baby-in-a-bin graphic up in a red circle with a slash mark. Just stay in Mexico next time :rolleyes:
 
Some people are just incredibly stupid. :banghead: I honestly don't know how some people live in the world today and actually survive without being killed by their own idiocy.
 
oh, wait, we have a last minute nominee. :D

That would be a tough award to give out, oh so many people to choose from.
 
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ISPTRAX said:
Good Lord... next thing you know they'll have to spend millions of dollars with our US tax dollars to retrofit all airports to put a baby-in-a-bin graphic up in a red circle with a slash mark. Just stay in Mexico next time :rolleyes:
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thats exactly what I am thinking :banghead:
 
ISPTRAX said:
Good Lord... next thing you know they'll have to spend millions of dollars with our US tax dollars to retrofit all airports to put a baby-in-a-bin graphic up in a red circle with a slash mark. Just stay in Mexico next time :rolleyes:
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That was really racist....
Being Spanish was not the issue here... being stupid was...
and sadly that happens with all races.
 
Amraann said:
That was really racist....
Being Spanish was not the issue here... being stupid was...
and sadly that happens with all races.
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I can't speak for the poster that said that but I don't think he meant anything racist. i think he meant if you can't read english or grasp enough of it to not do something as totally stupid as putting a baby in an xray machine then it's best to stay in your country and not venture out into unfarmiliar territory. if they had been Canadian I am sure the poster would have said go back to Canada.
 
I am sorry if I took it wrong....

The airport did have signs in spanish.

I still contend the issue was stupidity in any language.... I mean you (general you... not you personally) think the baby was carry on luggage??

Cleary the grandmother did ..... its almost funny.
 
Amraann said:
I am sorry if I took it wrong....

The airport did have signs in spanish.

I still contend the issue was stupidity in any language.... I mean you (general you... not you personally) think the baby was carry on luggage??

Cleary the grandmother did ..... its almost funny.
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can we say No harm no foul??? The baby was fine after getting checked out at a Hospital.
 
What about those poor TSA screeners? I never thought about it, but you KNOW they are getting fallout radiation, every day, all day, for their $12 an hour.

I already worry about my flight attendant friends--cancer rates are known to be higher among them--but now with these extra-strong body scanners to pass through every day?
 
2sisters said:
I can't speak for the poster that said that but I don't think he meant anything racist. i think he meant if you can't read english or grasp enough of it to not do something as totally stupid as putting a baby in an xray machine then it's best to stay in your country and not venture out into unfarmiliar territory. if they had been Canadian I am sure the poster would have said go back to Canada.
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Yep... could have been a Canadian or a European. If you're that stupid, you shouldn't venture out of your own home...
 
I'm pretty frugal, so my thought is - the baby is fine from the radiation, but did a radiologist read the x ray for the child? I mean, as long as the scan happened, they should at least look for fractures, cancer - something.

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I didn't read the comment as racist, but stupidist. I am a definite stupidist and will point out my discrimination against the stupid at any time.
 
Ummm....the x-ray machines at airports don't have film and don't produce "prints". It is just an image on a screen.
 
AlwaysShocked said:
Ummm....the x-ray machines at airports don't have film and don't produce "prints". It is just an image on a screen.
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With the updated security, I'd assume they'd save the images to disk to review later - for example if the plane blew up - they'd want to relook at those scans. You don't need actual film anymore. I worked at an MRI facility a few years ago, and we just uploaded the images - no film either.

But, I was being facicious.
 
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