Baby put into X-ray machine at Los Angeles airport

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LOS ANGELES, Dec 20 (Reuters Life!) - A woman sent her one-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, security officials said on Wednesday.

The woman, who spoke little English and was traveling to Mexico, put the infant in a plastic bin used to hold loose carry-on items for security scanning at the busy airport on Saturday morning.

Security screeners saw the baby as it started to pass through, pulled the bin out, and immediately sought medical assistance for the child, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said.

The baby was examined at a local hospital and judged not to have received a dangerous dose of radiation.

"The lady obviously mistakenly put the baby in the machine. It was an unfortunate incident," Melendez said.

Airport officials said it was an innocent mistake by an inexperienced traveler and only the second such incident there since 1988, when a baby in a car seat went through an X-ray scanner.

[adam]

Well...did the baby have any weapons or not?

[SquirrelDip]

Probably just a loaded diaper.

[thecoalman]

Probably just a loaded diaper.

<large groan from the audience> :P

[ZAPPER]

Probably just a loaded diaper.

Now ya see, That's funny

[Mylan23]

hahahhaha good one... the grandmother is a moron

[Will Hay]

Makes me think of a dude just found hanged in a phonebox in my village (England).
He had committed suicide, or so I'm told.

Totally true story...
....but I'm still trying to figure out how he did it.

Please, no jokes about "getting sick of being kept hanging on by tech support", this is a very, very sad situation
Will

[zzyzzx]

and immediately sought medical assistance for the child, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said.

What a waste of money.

[ZAPPER]

Makes me think of a dude just found hanged in a phonebox in my village (England).
He had committed suicide, or so I'm told.

Totally true story...
....but I'm still trying to figure out how he did it.

Please, no jokes about "getting sick of being kept hanging on by tech support", this is a very, very sad situation
Will

Like the prisoner that hung himself with the cord on the pay telephone, it took three gaurds to get him to hang himself while the other prisoners cheered them on.