Airport folliesInfant X-rayed at LAX
Nervous mother puts child in plastic container; baby is cleared for radiation exposure; no bombs found
When security officials begin passenger profiling, we hope they will include idiocy as one of the warning factors. In what is being called a “bizarre but not unprecedented” event, a woman put her infant child through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, prompting an immediate visit to the emergency room for radiation testing. “Human beings weren’t meant to go through those things,” said Dr. James Borgstede. In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, the doctor added, he was exposed to as much radiation as he would naturally get from cosmic rays in a single day. No word on whether the baby was carrying a gun.
-read more in Jennifer Oldham’s Los Angeles Times report
