TSA confiscates cupcake

[Doppel]

Could be the main ingredient of the gel like substance they were worrying about.

http://www.post-gazette.com/food/2000010699best1f.asp

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Your post, Mcowned, is like the fat kid laughing along with everybody else pointing and laughing at him, in a desperate attempt to deflect some of the obvious pain he is feeling.

 

[dmcowen674]

Icing confirmed as dangerous weapon of mass destruction

1-10-2012

http://news.yahoo.com/tsa-defends-confiscation-mass-womans-cupcake-022436160.html

TSA defends confiscation of Mass. woman's cupcake



The TSA says in a blog comment posted Monday the cupcake was packed in a jar filled with icing, which is considered a gel under a policy designed to secure travelers from terrorists seeking to evade detection by using explosives made of plastics, liquids or gels.

Rebecca Hains was barred from taking her cupcake onto a plane last month when a TSA agent said icing in the jar exceeded amounts of gels allowed in carry-on luggage.

 

[SandEagle]

Your post, Mcowned, is like the fat kid laughing along with everybody else pointing and laughing at him, in a desperate attempt to deflect some of the obvious pain he is feeling.

lol

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Don't worry Dave. Once Obama takes over health care they'll take these TSA people and use them to be your personal providers. Then you can sing their praises.

 

[dmcowen674]

Don't worry Dave. Once Obama takes over health care they'll take these TSA people and use them to be your personal providers. Then you can sing their praises.

You must feel so must safer knowing that dangerous icing is not going to get you.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Where do you draw the line.

Gels over x ounces are not allowed?

TSA is not allowed common sense

 

[shira]

I have seen the TSA take bottled water (unopened) from someone who bought it inside of the terminal (after the security check). This woman did not even try (yet) to take it on the plane. She had it in her hand sitting in the terminal when the TSA pushed a cart up to her and told her that she had to give them the water. What a crock of shit the TSA has become.

And how is the TSA supposed to be able to tell the difference between a 1 liter bottle of water and a 1 liter bottle of nitroglycerine?

The rules for bringing liquids on an airplane are very clear: 3-fluid-ounce containers, with no more than 1 quart of liquid in aggregate.

Edit: Oh, my bad. You said BOUGHT (not BROUGHT) AFTER the checkpoint. Yeah, that's absurd.

 

[Throckmorton]

Icing confirmed as dangerous weapon of mass destruction

1-10-2012

http://news.yahoo.com/tsa-defends-confiscation-mass-womans-cupcake-022436160.html

TSA defends confiscation of Mass. woman's cupcake



The TSA says in a blog comment posted Monday the cupcake was packed in a jar filled with icing, which is considered a gel under a policy designed to secure travelers from terrorists seeking to evade detection by using explosives made of plastics, liquids or gels.

Rebecca Hains was barred from taking her cupcake onto a plane last month when a TSA agent said icing in the jar exceeded amounts of gels allowed in carry-on luggage.

So the TSA should make an exception for things that sound whimsical and silly?

A jar with a cupcake? That couldn't possibly contain explosive gels! No one would ever thing to do such a thing!

Shoes! Honestly who would put a bomb in a shoe! Stupid TSA!!!


OK, let's make a list of things we'll allow people to bring prohibited substances in because they're just too silly for terrorists to ever use. Cupcake jars. Big rubber clown noses. Dildos. World of Warcraft style potion bottles. Water balloons (they're for kids!). Thermoses. Lunchboxes. Erlenmeyer flasks (silly scientists!). Yep. We can be sure terrorists will only attack us using things that aren't goofy and whimsical.

 

[Throckmorton]

Or maybe people are mad because it was a white lady and not an Arab male with a beard and a fucking turban. Get over it. You can either be outraged at profiling or you can be outraged at rigid application of the rules against people of every ethnic background. You can't be both.

 

[sm625]

BOHICA baby! just remember, you voted for it! As Howard Zinn often said, you cannot be neutral on a moving train. If you ever voted for or supported anyone who voted yeah on (or signed) any bill like the Patriot Act, then you voted for this disgrace.

You bought it, now you pay for it. Have fun trying to justify it.