So the woman who claimed that her child was taken away from her by TSA agents for up to 10 minutes has issued a non-apology.

The only part of her statement that was an apology was about not responding to people's concerns in a timely manor.

This is the part that bites. According to her blog, she accuses the TSA of doctoring the video to cover up her child's alleged abduction & her phone calls during the alleged abduction.


MyBottlesUp's blog states, "in the video, it looks as though my son is playing happily in his stroller while i am being searched with a wand. obviously this is the big discrepancy with my story, since he was not in my sight at that time, and one that i too am thoroughly looking into. neither of the two phone calls i placed while seated in security are in the video either. what is shown in the video is incomplete as it leaves out when the security agent took my son to a separate area and out of my sight. this matter is one that is being handled between my family and the TSA."
http://www.mybottlesup.com/tsa-agents-took-my-son


Here is the video that she claims the TSA doctored:
http://www.tsa.gov/assets/swf/atl_vid.swf


Here is the time line of that video:
10:55:16 - Shows card at ticket check (begins process).
10:57:28 - Goes off camera from initial ticket check.
((Time lapse 3 minutes 43 seconds - Presumably waiting in line for luggage check since personal screening does not occur until person has loaded luggage onto conveyor belt.))
11:01:11 - 2nd camera shot begins. See MyBottlesUp loading stroller onto
11:01:39-40 - Walks through metal detector with child
((20 seconds has elapsed))
11:02:00 - 3rd camera angle begins. MyBottlesUp seen walking through metal detector. Still has child in her arms.
11:02:04 - Is routed straight ahead to a clear box & waits.
11:02:45 - Starts to get agitated & calls for attention.
11:03:49 - TSA agent lets mother out of clear waiting box
11:04:12 - 3rd camera angle ends
((19 seconds has elapsed))
11:04:31 - 4th camera angle begins. MyBottlesUp seen walking up to hands on metal detection wait area.
11:04:35 - MyBottlesUp sits down.
11:04:39 - TSA agent bring stroller to MyBottlesUp.
>
11:05:29 - TSA agent begins pat down search of child while child is in MyBottleUps lap
11:05:38 - TSA agent finished patting down child
11:05:43 - Mother places child in stroller right next to where she is seated & remains in MyBottlesUp eyesight.
11:06:14 - Mother's metal search begins. Child is still in mother's sight.
11:09:35 - Wand search completed. Mother goes on her way. Child has been is sight of mother whole time.


Here is what she said happened (11:05:29 in the video)
The male TSA agent repeated, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I handed him my son.
I handed him my son and he walked away with my child.
My eyes welled up with tears, I stood up from my chair and I asked the female TSA agent, “Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?”
Jackson, while being whisked away looked at the male TSA agent awkwardly and repeated “no no no no.”
I started crying.
The female TSA agent did not answer me.
Panic set in. My hands began to shake. My body was sweating. My breath was short and my heart was racing.
They had taken my child and not told me.
Jackson was out of my eye sight.
I could not see my son.
Now sobbing, I repeated my questions to the female TSA agent.
She told me “Ma’am, we’re trying to be nice to you. We don’t know which one of you went off in the metal detector. Stay here so I can search you.”
“But my son… where is my son?” I asked over and over again.
The female TSA agent called a second female TSA agent over as she began to search me. Apparently the second female TSA agent could hear me protesting and asking for my son.
“Ma’am you need to calm down or I’m going to have to involve the authorities,” she told me.
Now I was pissed.
Horrified. Terrified. Enraged.
“You ****ing get the authorities,” I told the female TSA agent while the other continued to wand me and forced me to unbutton my jeans because the button beeped when she went over my abdomen with her wand.
“You get the goddamn authorities right the **** now and tell them to GIVE ME MY SON,” I said.
I began to black out. I knew I was having a full on panic attack. I feared passing out.
I was told to take my seat again, after being searched, but I was not allowed to collect my belongings.
My cell phone was within reach and I grabbed it without being seen by the TSA agents.
I called my husband. I do not remember what I told him on the phone in terms of Jackson and what took place.
I do recall asking him to calm me down because I could not breathe. As a father, he couldn’t. I imagine any father would do the same. Paul had questions, tons of questions. Questions that I was not capable of answering because I literally was losing my breath and on the verge of blacking out.
I hung up and called my mother.
“Jackson’s gone,” I remember telling her. I do not remember what she said in return, but she instantly could tell I was having a panic attack. She began breathing with me on the phone in an attempt to calm me down.
She told me, “Nic, you’re going to have to stop crying. You need to be strong for Jackson. He’s going to be that much more scared if he sees mommy so upset. In through your nose… out through your mouth…” I think she may have counted, or had me count, I don’t know.
Jackson was still gone.
My guess is that all of this took place within a period of 10 minutes or less.
It felt like hours… days even.
My son was gone.
Sobbing and seated, I watched both female TSA agents walk away from me and go back to monitoring luggage come through the conveyor belt.
Finally the male TSA agent who took Jackson brought him back.
Jackson was in my sight and immediately started yelling, “Mommy!”
I was hysterical.
Running to my son and grabbing him from the male TSA agent’s arms, I sobbed and yelled obscenities at every single TSA agent who stood guard at the end of the conveyor belts.
One of them asked me if I wanted to speak to a supervisor.
Through tears I told him (or her, I don’t remember) that I had a flight I was about to miss.
With Jackson in my arms, I gathered our belongings, through him in the stroller and ran to the elevator that took us down to the tram to take us to our concourse where our plane waited.

Here is her full blog post.
http://www.mybottlesup.com/tsa-agents-took-my-son

So, what really happened? Did the TSA doctor the video or is the mother making the whole story up?

Well according to this blog there are tweets the mother made ahead of time about getting paid for her insanity.
http://www.suburbanoblivion.com/2009/10/17/why-the-mybottlesup-story-really-chaps-my-****/