Toddler gets travel ban & arrest warrant

[chip!]

http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/oddlyEnoughNews/~3/45763748/newsarticle.aspx

DUBAI (Reuters) - A two-year-old boy was briefly banned from boarding a Turkey-bound flight in the United Arab Emirates after his name appeared on a list of wanted suspects, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Emirates Today said the boy's passport details, including the date of birth, matched those in an arrest warrant. The reason for the mix-up was not known.

"While going through the passport checking procedures to get on board, one of the officers on duty said they wanted to take Suhail," Emirates Today quoted the boy's father, Abdullah Mohamed Saleh, as saying.

"I thought he was kidding me and said 'Take him if you want'," he said. "He showed me a print-out of a document that said Suhail was wanted and there was an arrest warrant for him."

Officials said they would investigate the incident, the paper reported.

[weera]

Yeah, I read that on our local newspaper.
It must be mixed coz they only have names but no pictures of ppl on that travel ban list

[chip!]

but it said that the kid's birthday matched the warrant... haha, who in the world issued the warrant then? they didnt realize the DOB was xx-xx-2004 ?

[josh]

Hah.. thats great. We can really reduce air threats and terrorism if we could just keep those darn todlers off the airlines