Diabetic teen upset with TSA screeners at Salt Lake City Airport
Found on abc4 on Tuesday, 08 May 2012
A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive.
Savannah then showed agents a doctor's note explaining that the sensitive insulin pump should not go through the body scanner. She says she was told to go through it anyway.
She was right to be worried. She says the pump stopped working correctly. "Coming off an insulin pump is rough. You never know what is going to happen when you are not on the insulin pump."
Things like that make you wonder what the TSA is good for. If you look at the facts, it turns out that the TSA itself is totally useless and a giant waste of time and money. If you go into the details, like the folks over at www.onlinecriminaljusticedegree.com did, you'll run into some interesting facts: on average, each found weapon costs $6 million dollars (all those weapons were legal even) while 70% of all weapons aren't even found. The scans aren't safe either: there's a chance of 1 in 30 million to get cancer from a scan; same probability of dying in a terroristic attack.