TSA pats down a 4-year-old, and more

TSA pats down a 4-year-old

A 4-year-old Montana girl was subjected to a full body pat-down by TSA officials when she hugged her grandmother after passing through airport security. The girl’s mother, Michelle Brademeyer, says screeners coldly treated her daughter, Isabella, “like a tool in a terrorist plot,” suggesting her grandma may have slipped her a gun. One agent justified searching Isabella by saying she’d once “seen a gun in a teddy bear.”

Alabama blocks Dirty Bastard beer

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Alabama’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has banned the sale of Dirty Bastard beer because of its name, although Fat Bastard wine and Dirty Bitch beer are still for sale in the state. Officials said the other brands were approved years ago, and that they have a duty “to keep dirty pictures and dirty words away from children.”