The TSA caused a security scare at LAX, causing delays after mistaking a woman’s insulin pump for a gun.
The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. as the female passenger was being screened at Los Angeles International Airport. She went through electronic screening, which detected an item shaped like a weapon, the sources said.
But before screeners could search her, she walked away toward the boarding gates. Concerned Transportation Security Administration officials immediately alerted LAX police and the LAPD of a possible security breach.
So the screeners are so incompetent that they can’t stop one woman from walking away, nor can they detect the difference between a gun and an insulin pump? Their first thought was to call the police instead of stopping her?
Sources familiar with the incident said security staff scrambled to determine what happened but eventually realized the “weapon” was actually a medical device.
The woman was briefly detained and questioned. Authorities delayed some passengers boarding for up to an hour, according to sources.
How did this realization come about? According to the report, the realization came first, then they detained and questioned her. Just exactly how incompetent is the TSA?