Stupidity Bomb

"Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.

Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.

“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”

Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.

The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried."

Paying stupid people minimum wage to do security at an airport is akin to giving a suicide bomber first class seats on Flight 44 to NYC, don't you think? Question 2, why isn't the idiot who frisked Mikey not fired?

Things to ponder in the land of the uniformed and slothful, where tech becomes a weapon wielded by the incompetent against the innocent.