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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
Woman misses her flight over breast milk. WTF?
Here's what's really wrong with the TSA. This is appaling? What are your thoughts?
Please visit Roger Ebert's blog at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/politics/nbsp-nbsp.html to leave comments and if you're an American citizen I strongly recommend that you write your government representative and voice your concern. Nobody should be treated like this in my opinion.
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I'm going to be a bit of a devil's advocate here and address some basic problems with that video and story. I am approaching this as a frequent traveler who now gets special attention due to permanently sporting some titanium in my body, and also as a former breast feeding and occasional pumping mother...
ok, so first of all, timeline... we have only the word of the folks who put this video together regarding how much time has passed. I personally know that had I been left standing in the little glassed off room for an hour, I would have been sitting on the floor. also, as there are not as many glass exam rooms as there are metal detectors, those rooms have to get cleared and emptied very quickly.
treatment of breastmilk... breastmilk needs to be kept cold after it has been expressed. it could probably set out for about a half hour without worry, but beyond that, it needs to be kept cool. when you are expressing breast milk, you have a nifty little device that you express into that holds bottle inserts. you don't express into a ziplock baggie. human breastmilk is almost light blue in color, similar to skim milk. it would not show up in the video as starkly white as whatever was in that ziploc baggie.
red herrings... it's easy to say someone is pregnant. that woman looked no more pregnant than I am (and I am not, I assure you
). saying that she was trying to get home to her one year old child with the breast milk is very disingenuous. as valuable as breast milk is to a nursing mother and child, sometimes you cut your losses and dump it. it would be one thing if she were traveling with a child and the excuse were that she had expressed so she did not have to breast feed on the plane, this I believe is bull. this whole story has more holes than swiss cheese.
I'm sure there are many TSA nightmare tales out there, but lets find the real ones