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A TSA screener contaminated a 14-year-old boy's sterile backup feeding tube in the name of national security: "If I can't open it, I can't let you on the plane." [WFTV via BoingBoing]

3.6.08 6:34 PM EDT By cwalters

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A TSA screener contaminated a 14-year-old boy’s sterile backup feeding tube in the name of national security: “If I can’t open it, I can’t let you on the plane.” [WFTV via BoingBoing]

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3.6.08By cwalters

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