10-Year-Old Talks His Way Through Sea-Tac Airport Security

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10-Year-Old Talks His Way Through Sea-Tac Airport Security

Posted May 28, 2008, 12:12 pm CST
By Martha Neil

A 10-year-old boy who took a commercial airline flight to Texas, with a stopover and without a ticket last year, at age 9, has reportedly tried again.

This time, Semaj Booker talked his way through the security screening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport without a ticket, but was stopped as he was getting onto a flight to Sacramento, Calif., en route to Dallas, reports the Seattle Times. Authorities are investigating the security breach; passengers are not supposed to enter that part of the terminal without a boarding pass.

Booker is unhappy living in Washington state, according to his mother, and was trying to visit his grandfather in Texas.

So far, authorities have not pursued any charges.

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Posted by Averill Hecht - 7 months, 4 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes ago

This proves that “tickered passengers only” at airports is a farce.

Why stop meeters and greeters form seeing friends off at the gate like before 9/11. You still have to show a ticket to get on the plane, and everyone still has to go to security to get to the plane. TSA, end “ticketed passengers only” NOW at our nations’ airports!
Averill Hecht
www.changeairportsecurity.org

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