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Recently on a CNN comment board for a story about fragrance-challenged airline passengers, the discussion segued into on-board kiddos. Should parents be permitted to fly with babies and small children? Pro or con, there’s little doubt that people are passionate in their feelings on the subject.
Three-year-old Josh Pitney loved the Play-Doh he got from his grandma for Christmas. He loved it so much, in fact, that his parents packed it in their carry-on for the trip home to keep him entertained during the flight.
But when TSA screened the Pitney’s bags, security decided those cans of Play-Doh posed a threat. They could, after all, really be plastic explosive.
Let me say that I make a conscious effort to eschew violence as much as possible — just as some ex-smokers are almost rabid in their condemnation of smoking, so too am I perhaps overly anti-violence. That said, I think that, had I been in Nic’s shoes, there would have been blood spilled at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport the other day. Certainly, the possibly-perverted old man who took her son Jackson away from her and out of her sight to “inspect” him would have been, shall we say, damaged.
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