Deaf, Traveling, No Passport Check

Make sure you are sitting down when you read Lolypup's tale of traveling from Washington, DC to Boston, Massachusetts without having his identification checked by airport authorities. The shocking nature of his story may make you want to faint. Lolypup reports that he made it all the way to boarding the plane without having his identification checked even once. What were the authorities thinking? Was it something like, "Poor deaf guy. We will let him go without checking his passport?"