A few days ago BoingBoing reported on a five-year-old boy who was detained by security at the Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle because his name was on their “no fly” list. You can find the news report here if you’re interested.
Ted Adams, the publisher of IDW, responded to BoingBoing’s post with a story about his five-year-old son being on the same list because of his name:
My son, also five, is on that same list and it’s a nightmare. Every time we fly with him, we can’t use the computer terminals to check in and the attendant has to call some never named government agency to make sure he’s not a terrorist. Some attendants joke it off but some are insanely serious about it. His seat always goes unassigned (even if it was assigned when the reservation is made) which always causes problems.
