Shirtless 8-Year-Old Boy Gets TSA Pat Down


The TSA managed to inspire more hatred for their new screening policy over the weekend. How’d they do that? By forcing an 8-year-old boy to remove his shirt for a pat down says the Salt Lake City Tribune.  The whole thing was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube, where it’s been viewed more than 600,000 times so far and become an example of the policy gone bad.

It was taken by at the Salt Lake City airport by college student Luke Tait. He told the Tribune that after he filmed the incident, he was approached by “a man in a dark suit” and told to erase the footage.

Another parent who experienced a similar moment while traveling with his young son this weekend had this to say to the New York Post: “We spend my child’s whole life telling him that only Mom, Dad and a doctor can touch you in your private area, and now we have to add TSA agent, and that’s just wrong.”

Of course, SNL had to get in on the action:

 

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