In an attempt to hammer some common sense into them.
As sad as this new tale is, I’m not sure that it’s even sadder that Mommy and Daddy still believe in the system after receiving the standard TSA “Oops, we made a mistake!” reply to their complaint: “It made me feel that there is still hope, that there is still justice and that there’s still somebody who listens to people’s problems (in) the federal government.”
You can’t fix stupid, no matter where it lies.
We should all follow Drew Mandy's mother's example of being prepared and send the stuff through screening where it passed with out a problem. Then you can tell the TSA to pound sand.