Place your laptop, shoes, carry-on and baby (?) on the conveyor for screening

Thanks to Paul Kedrosky for sharing this story from the LA Times.

Earlier this week at LAX, a 56-year old woman placed her one-month old grandson into one of those gray plastic bins and slid him into the x-ray machine.  Luckily, the screener was paying attention and noticed the shape of a human in the bin, extricating the child from the machine.

I think that retired FAA security agent Brian Sullivan says it best: "If a baby can get through, what the hell else can get through?"

Apparently this is not the first such incident.  In fact, the TSA finds it necessary to put the following in bold blue type in the "traveling with children" section of its website: NEVER leave babies in an infant carrier while it goes through the X-ray machine.