Diabetic teen upset with TSA screeners at Salt Lake City Airport

ABC4 News ^ | May 6, 2012 | Don Hudson

[Kaslin]

SALT L AKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive.

Savannah Barry is mad and on a mission. She wants travelers to be warned before they walk through TSA security. "They need to get with the program and have some education across the board for TSA." After participating in a DECA conference in Salt Lake City with several classmates last week, Savannah, who is a type one diabetic and wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, says she ran into TSA agents who were not prepared to deal with her medical situation. "I went up to the lady and I said, I am a type one diabetic. I wear an insulin pump. I showed her the pump. I said, what do you want me to do? I usually do a pat down - what would you recommend?"

[GBA]

Probably, I never can tell any more, so I just assume everything is racist.

[Carriage Hill]

Me too. I should have included a smiley-face or sarc tag.

[OldPossum]

I’m amazed anyone travels by air any more.

I can understand if one has to travel by air for their job, but for other reasons? Don't get it. I quit in 2000.

[GBA]

Not for me, though I suppose I should have added them as well. Hard to believe we need such things.

These days, I see the term "racist" in the same context as someone saying "I'm fine" when asked how they're doing.

Meant something long, long ago in a sanity far, far away, but now it's just another overused, meaningless expression in a world that has lost its way.

So many symptoms and we still won't see the cause or the cure...