iI had to cringe when I heard the mom say that he is 'sometimes a terrorist at home'.

WTF, call him a mass murderer, too.

I laugh at stuff like this, but find it incredible that a parent would say something like that..leave the jokes to the morons like me?

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I can see her walk up to the screeners and loudly say something stupid like, "my son is on your terror list" just to vent and to get her point across.

And to make the whole queue titter with nervous laughter.

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She wants to know why a guy with exploding underwear gets on a plane and why her spawn gets frisked?

The underwear/attempted bomber was let on the plane OVERSEAS you dope! Not here in the U.S.

If Hamas/Hezbollah have forced teens to wear bombs strapped to their bodies anything is possible.

If I was a kid I probably love the attention being paid to me!

The mom sounds like another FA that, heaven forbid, her kid goes down in an airplane and she'd raise holy heck for losing her son because the gov't. DIDN'T DO THEIR JOB.

Judging by the picture in the paper?

The kid is a miserable waif that is being pushed to play soccer three times a week, is a cub scout (A good thing), gets yelled at for pulling a "b" down in Advanced Planetary Mechanics and has his toilet breaks scheduled for him.

I can see the mother priming the kid for a trip.

"Honey, you are going to get searched again when we get to the airport because your name is the same as a bad, bad terrorist!"

Way to positively enforce the joy of traveling to your kid-make the little effer paranoid, miserable and anti establishment. He may not grow up to be a terrorist, but I would love to see him in high school or college complaining about why he's treated like everyone else in the longest line of the bookstore.


I understand the idea of being hassled every time you try to do something-I had a temp job where I had to go to buildings with the security guard riding my arse to sign in, where are you going, what are you doing, why are you tall and ugly?- It was a hassle, but I understand the why, and go with the flow.

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LOL, she's trying to get the kid off the list because of the hassle.

If she can get that accomplished, what will keep a terrorist moron from doing the same?


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And if the kid is a terrorist? He can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Another reason to check his pockets.