Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Microcap & Penny Stocks : Rat dog micro-cap picks... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (8328)	5/31/2002 4:22:56 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

Wounded Soldier With Wired Jaw Prevented From Boarding Plane With Wire Clippers FoxNews.com \| Associated Press Friday, May 31, 2002 SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. Army lieutenant whose jaw is wired shut from a bullet wound he received in Afghanistan claims screeners at San Francisco International Airport denied him permission to pass through security with wire clippers used to snap open his jaw in an emergency. Lt. Greg Miller, a combat medic and member of a special forces patrol, was shot in Kandahar in April. The bullet passed through his jaw, severing nerves and leaving him without feeling in his mouth. He said his jaw was wired shut at a hospital in Germany, and his doctor issued him a pair of wire clippers to carry at all times in case he became sick and needed to open his jaw to avoid choking. Miller, who lives in College Station, Texas, had flown to the Bay Area to visit his mother. He said he was told at his local airport that the clippers weren't prohibited on the plane. Security personnel there even gave him a sticker saying they were allowed. But when Miller wanted to fly back home, he said the sticker didn't convince security screeners. He said San Francisco airport security personnel told him the tool, with a rounded blade less than one-inch long, was dangerous and confiscated it. Miller complained to an American Airlines official, and Miller said the official responded he was too busy to help. Miller then went to a pay phone and called several media outlets, telling them his story before boarding the plane. Once aboard, Miller said flight attendants told him there was nothing on board to open his jaw if he became sick. "What I think it is, is a lack of common sense," he said. Airport spokesman Mike McCarron said a flight attendant or pilot would have held Miller's clippers if they had known their importance — if, for instance, he had presented a doctor's note. American Airlines spokesman John Hotard agreed and said the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency that oversees airport security, is still working out the kinks in policy. "The TSA is trying to get its arms around a very, very big issue here," he said. "One of the problems they're having is the uniformity of the process, and I think this is an example of that."