Denied boarding because of breast pump (breast pump was deemed a security threat)

[The Straight Story]

B.C. MLA denied boarding because of breast pump

Updated: Wed Jan. 14 2009 10:59:11

Darcy Wintonyk, ctvbc.ca

A high profile member of B.C.'s opposition party was denied boarding at Vancouver's airport because her breast pump was deemed a security threat.

Vancouver-Mount Pleasant NDP MLA Jenny Kwan was trying to fly to Kamloops for a caucus meeting Tuesday morning, but security would not let her board when they found a breast milk pump and ice packs in her carry-on luggage.

Kwan says they found it suspicious she had the pump but not her four-month-old baby, Renan. Security officials suggested she check the milk into baggage, but the MLA did not have enough time.

Kwan did not have any carry on baggage for the 8:15 am flight because she was booked to return to Vancouver in the early evening.

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090114/BC_jenny_kwan_breast_pump_090114/20090114?hub=BritishColumbia

What a bunch of boobs.

[endarkenment]

1. take this plane to cuba or I'll squirt all over you

[Donnachaidh]

2. Kwan evidently doesn't know how breastmilk is made

What a JERK.

[MADem]

3. But the guy behind her, with this device, was passed through without question...

"I'll tell you, I don't even know what this thing is FOR....!!!!"

[SharonAnn]

4. I she'd had the infant with her, she wouldn't have needed the breast pump!

[Hugabear]

5. Hopefully Obama can put an end to all this nonsense

Yes, I know the OP concerns a story that isn't in the US. But I think much of the world takes their cue from the US. If we get rid of a lot of this nonsense, hopefully other countries will follow suit.

[Tesha]

7. Even in Vancouver, BC, Socialist Canuckistan? (NT)

[globalvillage]

6. Busted!

Sorry, that's the breast I got.

[Tesha]

8. You were really trying to milk that joke, weren't you?

You should have nipped it in the bud before it fell flat.

Tesha