TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump 811
OverTheGeicoE writes "Savannah Barry, a Colorado teenager, was returning home from a conference in Salt Lake City. She is a diabetic and wears an insulin pump to control her insulin levels 24/7. She carries documentation of her condition to assist screeners, who usually give her a pat-down search. This time the screeners listened to her story, read her doctor's letter, and forced her to go through a millimeter-wave body scanner anyway. The insulin pump stopped working correctly, and of course, she was subjected to an invasive manual search. 'My life is pretty much in their hands when I go through a body scan with my insulin pump on,' she says. She wants TSA screeners to have more training. Was this a predictable outcome, considering that no one outside TSA has access to millimeter-wave scanners for testing? Would oversight from the FDA or FCC prevent similar incidents from happening in the future?"
Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
TSA: bringing more terror to flight than actual terrorists!
Re:new slogan (Score:2, Funny)
She was smuggling cocaine inside her insulin.
Re:forced? (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm, go to any beach in Europe and knock yourself out.
Very true. But unless you're willing to be groped, irradiated, swim *really* well, or have a lot of bucks for a ship ticket, it's kind of difficult to get to Europe.
Re:The war on terror is over (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, are we talking about cell phone contracts again?
Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
they are relying on that 1 in 30,000,000 person being a terrorist. that way we all win.
Re:The war on terror is over (Score:5, Funny)
So, someone can beat you for 8 minutes with a lead pipe, I step in and beat you for 3 then stop. You'd still vote for me?
tempting. Maybe if you told me that it was to prevent terrorism and protect the children.
Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
When I come to work, I sneak liquor in by hiding it in my stomach.
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Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Which 12? Me? You? Let's just toss everyone in gitmo to be safe!
Re:new slogan (Score:5, Funny)
You have the same odds of being killed on an airplane by a terrorist as you do being killed by cancer from a body scanning device (1 in 30 million)
BEDIVERE: So, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. has the same odds of being killed on an airplane by a terrorist as she does being killed by cancer from a body scanning device then she's made of wood
BEDIVERE: And therefore--?
VILLAGER #1: The TSA are Terrorists!
CROWD: Terrorists!
BEDIVERE: We shall use my largest millimeter wave scanner!
Re:new slogan (Score:4, Funny)
This has never been proven, and it *cannot* ever be proven as long as TSA won't allow anyone else to test the machines.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, then, these machines must be deemed safe.~