YYZ security on the ball...

[Squawk 8888]

Yet another example of why "security", not hijackings, will be the death of the industry.


Pearson frisks disabled child

By KATE L. BARRETTE -- Toronto Sun

CALGARY -- An Alberta couple whose four-year-old son was hauled
out of his wheelchair and frisked at Pearson International Airport say
airport and airline staff -- not terrorists -- make them afraid to fly.

Dave and Tammy Francis are appalled that security in Toronto asked their
son Liam to get out of his wheelchair and walk through a metal detector
before boarding a Calgary-bound flight Tuesday morning.

"I couldn't believe that security would ask a boy in a wheelchair to get up
and walk. If he could, he wouldn't be in the wheelchair," said Tammy.

Liam suffers from cerebral palsy and can move slowly using a walker but
cannot walk on his own.

When his mom told security personnel that, she was ordered to stand him
up so he could be patted down.

"It was rough considering he's four years old," Tammy said.

"We knew security would be tight because of what happened in the U.S.
but how Liam was treated was insulting," she added.

[pigboat]

That the same gang that let Jan Wong through with an arsenal of cutlery? Shoulda thrown her scrawny a** in the crowbar hotel. :mad:

[WAIF-er]

I find this appalling and very sad indeed.

What sort of briefing do these security people have? They work on a completely random system, picking on whoever they "have a hunch" about - very 1970's TV detective!

The only way to run security in my opinion is to treat every single passenger to the same system - a security treadmill if you like. Until this is the case, individuals will take a chance on not getting stopped.

Bring in more search staff, open more security lanes, make the whole security area larger and more accommodating. Sadly, I think the airport directors would see this as wasted space that could otherwise be used for revenue earning premises.

Shame on the security people concerned in the above.