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01-06-2010, 12:34 AM
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TSA Takes Boy's Play-Doh Before Flight Agents Have Discretion To Confiscate Toy
Posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Airport screeners seized a boy's Christmas present -- some Play-Doh -- before his flight home after the holidays, St. Louis TV station KTVI reported.
Christy Pitman said the gooey toy would have entertained her sons, Josh and Nathan, on the flight home, too.
"Nathan has the empty Play-Doh packaging from the Play-Doh that was confiscated in New Orleans by the TSA last week," she said as the boy played.
"I had the kids, and my husband was there with all our bags. Josh and I were sitting, getting our shoes on and, my husband kinda motioned to us and said, 'They took our Play-Doh.'"
She said a Transportation Security Administration employee took every can out of the package and put it on a table, which made her son fuss.
"I tried to explain that those were the rules, but it turns out it's not prohibited on the TSA's Web site, so apparently those aren't the rules," Pitman said.
The station said that while Play-Doh is not prohibited, screeners can bar it at their own discretion, because plastic explosive can be made to look like the child's toy. So Josh lost a Christmas present from his grandmother.
"It's just really hard to go through security, in general, with children, much less the child whose favorite toy has been taken away," Pitman said. "I'm happy to obey the rules, I just wish the rules were more in stone. If they involved kids, especially."
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting.
TSA Takes Boy's Play-Doh Before Flight Agents Have Discretion To Confiscate Toy
Posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Airport screeners seized a boy's Christmas present -- some Play-Doh -- before his flight home after the holidays, St. Louis TV station KTVI reported.
Christy Pitman said the gooey toy would have entertained her sons, Josh and Nathan, on the flight home, too.
"Nathan has the empty Play-Doh packaging from the Play-Doh that was confiscated in New Orleans by the TSA last week," she said as the boy played.
"I had the kids, and my husband was there with all our bags. Josh and I were sitting, getting our shoes on and, my husband kinda motioned to us and said, 'They took our Play-Doh.'"
She said a Transportation Security Administration employee took every can out of the package and put it on a table, which made her son fuss.
"I tried to explain that those were the rules, but it turns out it's not prohibited on the TSA's Web site, so apparently those aren't the rules," Pitman said.
The station said that while Play-Doh is not prohibited, screeners can bar it at their own discretion, because plastic explosive can be made to look like the child's toy. So Josh lost a Christmas present from his grandmother.
"It's just really hard to go through security, in general, with children, much less the child whose favorite toy has been taken away," Pitman said. "I'm happy to obey the rules, I just wish the rules were more in stone. If they involved kids, especially."
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting.