Av8trxx
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This is soooo typical of the TSA......
GRANNY A CEREAL
'HAZ-MAT' OFFENDER
By MURRAY WEISS, JEANE MacINTOSH and
CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
March 22, 2003 -- It was a tasteful case of mistaken identity that shut down a busy area of La Guardia airport for two hours yesterday after a security screening machine detected a gas mask and a suspicious white powder in the luggage of a Texas grandmother.
Betty Feir, 60, had no idea she was the subject of an FBI-NYPD counterterrorism investigation that forced the closing of a section of the ticket-counter area of American Airlines while haz-mat units decontaminated six security personnel and police dogs sniffed the strange white powder.
It wasn't until FBI agents escorted her off the plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that she was told what all the trouble was about.
"They thought I had anthrax in my bag," she said in a thick Texas drawl. "It was Cream of Wheat.
"I was mortified."
Police sources said that two on-site tests indicated the loose powdery substance might be the deadly airborne spore anthrax.
Feir, a child psychologist from Texarkana, explained she had just returned from Israel where she was visiting her daughter and son-in-law and their eight children. She crammed her bags with presents - including Cream of Wheat, the kids' favorite breakfast cereal.
"I guess some of it spilled out," she said apologetically, adding that the gas mask was a present from her grandchildren.
GRANNY A CEREAL
'HAZ-MAT' OFFENDER
By MURRAY WEISS, JEANE MacINTOSH and
CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
March 22, 2003 -- It was a tasteful case of mistaken identity that shut down a busy area of La Guardia airport for two hours yesterday after a security screening machine detected a gas mask and a suspicious white powder in the luggage of a Texas grandmother.
Betty Feir, 60, had no idea she was the subject of an FBI-NYPD counterterrorism investigation that forced the closing of a section of the ticket-counter area of American Airlines while haz-mat units decontaminated six security personnel and police dogs sniffed the strange white powder.
It wasn't until FBI agents escorted her off the plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that she was told what all the trouble was about.
"They thought I had anthrax in my bag," she said in a thick Texas drawl. "It was Cream of Wheat.
"I was mortified."
Police sources said that two on-site tests indicated the loose powdery substance might be the deadly airborne spore anthrax.
Feir, a child psychologist from Texarkana, explained she had just returned from Israel where she was visiting her daughter and son-in-law and their eight children. She crammed her bags with presents - including Cream of Wheat, the kids' favorite breakfast cereal.
"I guess some of it spilled out," she said apologetically, adding that the gas mask was a present from her grandchildren.
