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Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale airport

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This is really special - and nobody is willing to accept blame.

Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale airport

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -

Eighteen-month-old Riyanna has been called a lot of things: cute, adorable and now ... a suspected terrorist.

She was called that on Tuesday night at the Ft Lauderdale Airport. She and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an airline employee approached them and asked them to get off the plane, saying representatives from the Transportation Security Administration wanted to speak to them.

The parents are Muslim but born in the US, as was Riyanna. It was the kid's name on the no-fly list, not her parents.

Now, JetBlue is calling it a "computer glitch"
 
This is really special - and nobody is willing to accept blame.



The parents are Muslim but born in the US, as was Riyanna. It was the kid's name on the no-fly list, not her parents.

Now, JetBlue is calling it a "computer glitch"

Oh Jeeez.... the stupidity is just endless.
 
TSA what a great expenditure of our money.....


j-mac
 
i don't find it surprising that someone felt that an 18-month-old had potential to terrorize a flight.

*cue the stinger

thanks, folks, and please tip your waitresses
 
A name was on the no-fly list. Somebody with the same or similar name got hassled. This is news?
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The name belonged to a baby. Do you think the bureaucracy cares or knows the difference? This must be investigated, forms must be filled out (in triplicate), supervisors must be apprised. A memo must be written. At least one teleconference must be held. Do you think a stewardess alone can make a call regarding national security that, in effect, overrides the entire Code of Federal Regulations and usurps the authority of not only the president, but more importantly the CIA? Good Lord, man, if that happened then airplanes might even take off on time... and your luggage might even arrive at the same airport as you do! :shock:

Now if you want to discuss the necessity of a no-fly list altogether, then that's something worthwhile (well, not really, but worth discussing at least ;) ).
 
Thread should be titled, "Pampers Bomber Apprehended".
 
TSA what a great expenditure of our money.....
Just doing their job, dude.

Feed that baby a can of chili just before the flight and that plane is going down.... WMD -- Weapon of Mass Diarrhea :shock:



And for the partisan quip of the day... wasn't the TSA brought to us by a Republican administration and Congress?
 
This is really special - and nobody is willing to accept blame.



The parents are Muslim but born in the US, as was Riyanna. It was the kid's name on the no-fly list, not her parents.

Now, JetBlue is calling it a "computer glitch"

You know TSA could really keep the skies safe if they put us all on the no-fly list.
 
This is really special - and nobody is willing to accept blame.

Of course it is the TSA's fault. They screw up over and over and over, and as of yet, we haven't heard of them really stopping anything.
 
Of course it is the TSA's fault. They screw up over and over and over, and as of yet, we haven't heard of them really stopping anything.

Wasn't there some TSA agent in St. Louis or something who stopped that guy from carrying a cupcake on board? I mean that's something. He clearly hadn't brought enough to share with everyone on the flight.
 
Wasn't there some TSA agent in St. Louis or something who stopped that guy from carrying a cupcake on board? I mean that's something. He clearly hadn't brought enough to share with everyone on the flight.

:lamo Good one.

What have they done recently? I recall they broke someones insulin injector or some such (not diabetic, so not familiar with that stuff). Let gun parts hidden in stuff animals through. Took bribes to let drugs through. Loads of cases of stealing from luggage. I believe I read a recent congressional report showed that the full body scanners were crap for stopping things. The list since the beginning of the TSA would go on forever.
 
:lamo Good one.

What have they done recently? I recall they broke someones insulin injector or some such (not diabetic, so not familiar with that stuff). Let gun parts hidden in stuff animals through. Took bribes to let drugs through. Loads of cases of stealing from luggage. I believe I read a recent congressional report showed that the full body scanners were crap for stopping things. The list since the beginning of the TSA would go on forever.

Ahhh government, keeping us safer
 
Thread should be titled, "Pampers Bomber Apprehended".


Yeah, the baby and the guy they just caught with the upgraded underwear could share the cell....the pampers bomber, and the new Fruit of Ka-Boom bomber....


j-mac
 
A little OT, but what REALLY pisses me off is when they force everyone to turn off electronic devices at takeoff and landing when there is NO EVIDENCE that these devices in any way interfere with the plane's operation.
 
Yeah, the baby and the guy they just caught with the upgraded underwear could share the cell....the pampers bomber, and the new Fruit of Ka-Boom bomber....


j-mac

You need to keep up with the news - the "guy they just caught with the upgraded underwear" bomb, - was a double agent - sent in to Yemen to get the info. Now under CIA protection 'somewhere'
 
A little OT, but what REALLY pisses me off is when they force everyone to turn off electronic devices at takeoff and landing when there is NO EVIDENCE that these devices in any way interfere with the plane's operation.

I fly all the time, and I extremely happy that they make everyone turn off their phones. I would hate to be on a plane with 100 people gabbing away.

But no, the devices do nothing to the plane.
 
No no - no no - I've been in enough threads concerning crying children and screaming babies on flights to know that no one on that flight felt nothing but relief when they arrived with their sanity intact.

I am not fooled!
 
Everything starts out with good intentions it seems but slowly turns sour. Look at the number of fumbling Barney Fife TSA agents at your entry point the next time you fly.

Put one retired Marine DI with a loaded M-16 at the metal detector and call it a day. The money would be better spent on more uncover Sky Marshalls on planes.

As for the innocent baby, I really wouldn't put it past Al qaeda from inserting a bomb into the anal cavity of a baby.
 
Note to self: Get every baby placed on no-fly list.
 
Everyday millions of people all over the US fly without a problem. We're talking about thousands of daily flights where nobody is flagged as being a terrorist. A few mistakes get made every now and then and people are calling for the defunding of the TSA. Frankly, it's ridiculous.
 
Hatuey-

You are no fun at all!!!!! ;)

I fly a lot, seem the 'undercover' air marshall's, they stick out badly. Flew when armed soldiers patrolled the terminals. Been frisked and questioned, all things considered nothing I didn't go through getting into many bars.

Funny when they pooch the deal everyone stands up and barks like a well trained dog.

The oddest thing about it all is most the whiners don't fly, are clueless what really happens...

But damn sure have to rant away... :roll:
 
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