{"id":8684,"date":"2010-02-16T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:05:58","slug":"big-sister-knows-who-the-real-perps-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"Big Sister Knows Who The <i>Real<\/i> Perps Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Camden, NJ cop on vacation with his developmentally-disabled son is told by TSA staff at the Philly airport to\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/home_region\/20100215_Daniel_Rubin__Another_case_of_TSA_overkill.html\">remove the kid&#8217;s leg brace:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Thomases were dumbfounded. &#8220;I told them he can&#8217;t walk without them on his own,&#8221; Bob Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said, &#8216;He&#8217;ll need to take them off.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan&#8217;s mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.<\/p>\n<p>No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Leona Thomas said she was calm. Bob Thomas said he was starting to burn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was amazed to see that it worked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They complied, and Leona went first, followed by Ryan, followed by Bob, so the boy wouldn&#8217;t be hurt if he fell. Ryan made it through.<\/p>\n<p>By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is normally the part of the story where TSA pulls the hapless traveller aside and throws him in jail.\u00a0 Because everyone knows terrorists get angry at being told to jump through stupid hoops.<\/p>\n<p>It helped that Mr. Thomas is a cop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas said he told the supervisor he was going to file a report, and at that point the man turned and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>A Philadelphia police officer approached and asked what the problem was. Thomas said he identified himself and said he was a Camden officer. The Philadelphia officer suggested he calm down and enjoy his vacation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the 4-year-old boy was on a watch list of some kind?   Having been born, he was obviously a pro-lifer and all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Camden, NJ cop on vacation with his developmentally-disabled son is told by TSA staff at the Philly airport to\u00a0 remove the kid&#8217;s leg brace: The Thomases were dumbfounded. &#8220;I told them he can&#8217;t walk without them on his own,&#8221; Bob Thomas said. &#8220;He said, &#8216;He&#8217;ll need to take them off.&#8217; &#8221; Ryan&#8217;s mother offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}