LOS ANGELES, Dec 20 (Reuters Life!) - A woman sent her one-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, security officials said on Wednesday.

The woman, who spoke little English and was traveling to Mexico, put the infant in a plastic bin used to hold loose carry-on items for security scanning at the busy airport on Saturday morning.

Security screeners saw the baby as it started to pass through, pulled the bin out, and immediately sought medical assistance for the child, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said.

The baby was examined at a local hospital and judged not to have received a dangerous dose of radiation.

"The lady obviously mistakenly put the baby in the machine. It was an unfortunate incident," Melendez said.

Airport officials said it was an innocent mistake by an inexperienced traveler and only the second such incident there since 1988, when a baby in a car seat went through an X-ray scanner.

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jerseykrs said:

oh lord! I wasnt gonna laugh at this but u made me

maybe she thought it was just a place to stick the kid while she was going through security?

that whole situation sounds like something out of a comic book...except in this case the poor kid ain't gonna end up with some boo-koo superpowers.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

What, like: "STAND BACK CITIZEN - FOR I AM AIRPORT SECURITY MAN!"

BananaCologne said:

it's megatron babyyyyy!!!!!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

DanceWme said:

tickets are mad expensive yo!

jerseykrs said:

this is the craziest shit. I mean imagine that poor baby's face.

That baby was probably like No this bitch didnt

I read this yesterday.

Hopefully the child won't develop any malignant tumors or anything as a result.

I can only imagine how the mother reacted!

I heard this one the news last night.

My mom and I were rollin'.

Stupid woman.

How come airport security was not watching? They usually do to make sure you are putting your stuff in that plastic container.

Well, at least it wsn't a microwave like what happened recently. And that was on purpose.

minneapolisgenius said:

Say whaa?

well, at least she removed the poor lamb from its laptop case like she was supposed to.

BananaCologne said:

Yeah, there was some story about 3 weeks to a month ago about how some woman killed her baby by putting him/her in the microwave. There was a thread about it here I believe.

DanceWme said:

luv4u said:

i don't think the woman was really all that stupid. She sounds like and eldery woman who was very inexperienced with airport travel. I'm surprised no one intervened sooner.

i'm glad that the child is okay.