Video still of 12-year-old Shelbi Walser, detained by the TSA at the Dallas Fort Worth airport in Texas (© Tammy Daniels via Fox4, Shelbi Walser)

TSA detains crying kid in wheelchair after positive bomb residue test

12/15/2012

Believe it or not, there's always someone at airport security being treated worse than you are. Twelve-year-old Shelbi Walser regularly travels between Dallas and Florida for treatments for a genetic bone disorder that currently has her confined to a wheelchair. On this trip, TSA officials held the girl for an hour, after informing her mother that little Shelbi had bomb residue on her hands. As Shelbi Walser cried, mom Tammy Daniels was kept from consoling her daughter, until, just as inexplicably, they were told they could go — and that they could direct any complaints "to TSA through a variety of channels." [Source]

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