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Originally Posted by spdrun
I postulated that he either created a fake boarding pass using an image editor (not so difficult if he had an existing old boarding pass) or he picked up a boarding pass someone dropped (more likely). Third option: he bought a ticket using a stolen CC #.
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OK genius, let's look at the possibilities of each of those figments of your vivid imagination:
1) A nine year old is going to create a fake boarding pass using an image editor..............???? You really want to believe this?
2) If he picked up a boarding pass that "someone dropped" how the hell did that "someone" get on the airplane?
3) The nine year old stole a credit card and bought a ticket. In this situation, he actually had a boarding pass with his name on it. In this situation, he clears both the TSA and the gate agent properly and neither can be chastised for failure to do their jobs.
How likely is is that a nine year old stole the credit card?
How about this:
The nine year old is trained in martial arts and he kicked the ass off one 32 year old IT tech and stole his boarding pass. Both the TSA and the gate agent didn't notice the names didn't match his ID (as you mentioned, they might not carefully check the minor). He gets on the airplane and travels innocently.
The 32 year old gets back into his 240D and drives home, too embarrassed to notify the authorities.
I like my scenario better than your three scenarios............each can be considered just as likely.