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A super-hero is born.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...cal&id=4865177
Grandmother Puts 1-Month-Old In X-ray Machine At LAX Airport
LOS ANGELES, Decemeber 20, 2006 - A woman going through security at LAX over the weekend put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine, prompting astonished officials to order the child medically evaluated .
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The infant was taken to Centinela Hospital, where doctors determined he had not received a dangerous dose of radiation, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, he was exposed to as much radiation as he would get in a day from cosmic rays, or high energy from outer space said, Dr. James Borgstede, a Colorado diagnostic radiologist and president of the American College of Radiology.
The early Saturday accident bizarre but not unprecedented caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, said officials.
A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.
Officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, told reporters she spoke only Spanish.
She initially didn't want the baby transported to a hospital, but security officials called paramedics and insisted the child be examined by a doctor, according to reports. The woman and child were later allowed to board an Alaska Airlines flight to Mexico City.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said his agency, which manages LAX screeners, does not want such an incident to recur.
"We're trying to figure out what changes we can make, short of putting up signs saying, `Don't put your baby through the X-ray machine,' " said Melendez.
A super-hero is born.
WOW. What a dumb .
Her HMO really sucks!
RACK SLOMO!!!
Beat me to it.
I think they'll have to go that far. There's a reason it says not to stop a chainsaw with your genitals, after all."We're trying to figure out what changes we can make, short of putting up signs saying, `Don't put your baby through the X-ray machine,' " said Melendez.
Of course it does. What do you expect when they pay their doctors so little they have to moonlight as TSA screeners?
That right there is Fantastic Four. The kid is gonna grow up to be the Mexican Marauder or something. Super strength, speed, flexibility, astral powers one of those. Book it.
He'll be like the E20 of Los Angeles
There is only one E20 and nobody can take him.
From what I heard just recently, she didn't understand the security procedures because she didn't speak English. That's why the whole thing happened. Lammmeee.
I wonder if I was ever put through an airport x-ray machine? HMM.
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