Fly Me To Nana's House Or I'll Poop in My Diaper

The Transportation Security Administration has added babies to the list of items banned from plane cabins. OK, not quite, but close. This sounds like something from a moderately amusing comedy — perhaps a cross between Airplane and Look Who's Talking (Hollywood, are you listening?).

Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly list.'' ... Ingrid Sanden's 1-year-old daughter was stopped in Phoenix before boarding a flight home to Washington at Thanksgiving.  ...

Sarah Zapolsky and her husband had a similar experience last month while departing from Dulles International Airport outside Washington. An airline ticket agent told them their 11-month-old son was on the government list.

... [S]ince the 2001 attacks the [no-fly] lists have swelled from a dozen or so names to more than 100,000 names, according to people in the aviation industry who are familiar with the issue. ... The [Transportation Security Administration] has a "passenger ombudsman'' who will investigate individual claims from passengers who say they are mistakenly on the lists. TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark said 89 children have submitted their names to the ombudsman. Of those, 14 are under the age of 2.