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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, NY 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 four-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 your 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.
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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, NY 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 four-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 your 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.
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Does anyone know where there’s an icon that slowly shakes its head with a glazed look in its eyes?
What say we take a poll and have the newly formed Homeland Security changed to Homeland Insecurity...?
Unbelievable....
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What say we take a poll and have the newly formed Homeland Security changed to Homeland Insecurity...?
Unbelievable....
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I don't know the full story so I shouldn't really comment, but couldn't she have just told/asked the security to keep it, or to have it chucked down the sink somewhere? 
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Now that's definitely taking it way too far. I hope those security people get fired, and fined. I suppose with all the strict regulations and all it's easy for some to use their position and go power-tripping.. 
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The world has absolutely, very definitely, positively, gone mad.
What is the educational level required of the these security people, or is it just because they get bored.??
What is the educational level required of the these security people, or is it just because they get bored.??
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Ever heard of "expressing" breast milk, 411A? It's quite common for nursing mothers to do that for a variety of reasons.
Anyway SACK these power-hungry, meglomaniac security dorks, then have Mr Kuby sue the @ss of them and the company they were employed by!
Anyway SACK these power-hungry, meglomaniac security dorks, then have Mr Kuby sue the @ss of them and the company they were employed by!
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If the Mother disposed of all the milk, what do you feed the Baby? Exposing a breast to feed a child in a public place has actually resulted in arrest and charges in some of the more pious regions of the US of A...
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Insanity it is...
If the Mother disposed of all the milk, what do you feed the Baby? Exposing a breast to feed a child in a public place has actually resulted in arrest and charges in some of the more pious regions of the US of A...
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Insanity it is...
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Having read the story, I had to laugh for about an hour. But seriously, how does one respond to such loonies without insulting anyone? All I can say is that I’m sure glad I’m not an American citizen.
I hope that Elizabeth McGanny takes these bottom-fondling failed wheelclampers to the cleaners.
I know that educational standards aren't that high in a country which took some 3 years to find just 7 people capable of doing a monkey's job in a Mercury capsule - and which elected people like George Dubya - but surely even they can find someone with enough common sense to avoid such lunacy as this!
I know that educational standards aren't that high in a country which took some 3 years to find just 7 people capable of doing a monkey's job in a Mercury capsule - and which elected people like George Dubya - but surely even they can find someone with enough common sense to avoid such lunacy as this!
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There do seem to be a lot of "isolated" incidents of poor security. This would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
I assume if some safety related ground handling work such as fuelling or baggage handling is done badly the aircraft captain has the authority to have it done again.
Question: Does this authority extend to security?
If so much effort is made to search the halt and the lame aircrew and now nursing mothers, who could be getting through. It might concentrate a few minds if a few plane loads were re-screened. I would put up with the delay if the captain ( not the aiport ) explained the reason.
I assume if some safety related ground handling work such as fuelling or baggage handling is done badly the aircraft captain has the authority to have it done again.
Question: Does this authority extend to security?
If so much effort is made to search the halt and the lame aircrew and now nursing mothers, who could be getting through. It might concentrate a few minds if a few plane loads were re-screened. I would put up with the delay if the captain ( not the aiport ) explained the reason.
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Konkorski - Yep. Apparently got through TWO airports in the US and the "Dangerous Items" were only detected before she got on a flight to Scotland.
Ther'es another thread on this running. Will run and run and run and.....
So here's a joke:
Q: What do you get when you cross the most powerful, nuclear-armed nation in the world with the most paranoid nation in the world going to extreme lengths in "security" to protect itself?
A: A self-satisfied afterglow?????
Hang on, perhaps it's not a joke.........
(Edited for cr@p joke. Replaced with new cr@p joke.
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Ther'es another thread on this running. Will run and run and run and.....
So here's a joke:
Q: What do you get when you cross the most powerful, nuclear-armed nation in the world with the most paranoid nation in the world going to extreme lengths in "security" to protect itself?
A: A self-satisfied afterglow?????
Hang on, perhaps it's not a joke.........
(Edited for cr@p joke. Replaced with new cr@p joke.
)
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