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Cheebee said:
Turkish said:
Cheebee said:

Lulz. The written comments that pop up in that vid are hilarious.
'My little boy was trembling with fear, he wanted me to hug him, but we were told we couldn't come near him!!'

Yeah right. The kid honestly didn't look like he gave a crap. Talk about paranoid parents. xD

It's just a procedure everyone has to follow. Boo-hoo, so what if the kid's in a wheelchair, he didn't looked bothered at all, if anything, just interested. Notice how he was looking over at the airport personnel all the time, wanting to check everything that was going on around him, and *not* over at his parents? (whom he *would* be looking at if he'd really been trembling with fear and longing for a loving hug to comfort him)

If they start making exceptions, it'll quickly become a mess.

Its not wether the kid gave a crap or not, its suspecting a kid in a wheelchair to be a terrorist. Having your family been violated like this, you approve? How will it quickly becoming a mess? Planting C4 in the wheelchair?

Okay, how exactly is the family 'violated' as you call it? The guy checking the kid did so within minutes, the kid was not stressed out or scared at all (although the parents' written comments in the vid would have you think otherwise). So tell me again, how is this family being violated? If the kid had been crying and the whole thing had taken a long time, or the guy would've had the kid's clothes taken off or hurt him or something, then yes, one might call that 'violation', but the case in this vid? Not at all. Simply standard procedure.

As for your 1st question, yes, I approve. I don't have kids, but if I did, and this happened to them, I'd be fine with it. I would also be fine with it if it happened to me. I'm quite sure the guy performing the procedure didn't think the kid was a terrorist either, but he was just doing his job.

As for things quickly becoming a mess, there I was referring to the airport personnel making exceptions. If they start making exceptions for kids in wheelchairs, then others will want to be excepted too. Like babies. Old people. Blind people. Deaf people. Mentally disabled people. I could go on, but you get the point. They simply cannot start making exceptions in some cases, and not in others.

They already are pushing for exceptions. I think it was 7 or lower and 70 or higher are excempted from gropping. There's also an "express" lane where you can pay $100 to apply for and you don't have to go through gropping.