TSA confiscates cupcake

[dmcowen674]

I feel so much safer now that the cupcake security threat has been captured by our airway overlords. How bout you?

Merry Christmas

12-25-2011

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...iscates-womans-frosted-cupcake-161059325.html

Rebecca Hains told ABCNews.com today that a Transportation Security Administration agent at Las Vegas- McCarran International Airport seized her cupcake, saying the frosting sitting atop the red velvet cake was gel-like enough to violate regulations.

The cupcake was packaged in a glass container with a metal lid, which was why it attracted the attention of the scanner in the first place.


The TSA agent didn't know what to do with the cupcake, so she called over her supervisor, Hains said.


"The TSA supervisor, Robert Epps, was using really bad logic - he said it counted as a gel-like substance because it was conforming to the shape of its container."

Hains said she had flown from Boston to Las Vegas with two cupcakes without any problems.


"The TSA at Logan Airport said the cupcakes looked delicious and told us to have a great trip. But in Las Vegas, they were dangerous. They shouldn't be delicious in one part of the country and a security threat in the other."

 

[Engineer]

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.

 

[shurato]

Uh oh there's that yellow cake the Bush administration was talking about to the run up of the Iraq war....

 

[Jaskalas]

I'd vote for Obama today if he came out against the TSA and vowed to disband it.

 

[Fenixgoon]

even former heads of the TSA have said it's basically worthless...they always have those contraband displays, but really, how many of those items were actually intended for the purpose of commandeering a plane? few, if any at all, i imagine.

before 9/11, thousands upon thousands of items must have passed through without incident.

 

[dmcowen674]

I'd vote for Obama today if he came out against the TSA and vowed to disband it.

What about the Terrists like the shoe bomber?

 

[DesiPower]

 

[shiner]

Maybe they detected Balsamic Vinegar....

 

[Jaskalas]

What about the Terrists like the shoe bomber?

As I recall TSA let them on the plane. We the people(tm) stopped them.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...eater-tsa-confiscates-womans-frosted-cupcake/

 

[CallMeJoe]

At least it wasn't a cream-filled Twinkie...

 

[SparkyJJO]

I'd vote for Obama today if he came out against the TSA and vowed to disband it.

I wouldn't, because I couldn't trust him to follow through with it.

 

[werepossum]

I wonder if they had earlier confiscated some weed . . .

 

[JEDIYoda]

I fly frequently and my experience with TSA agents is that 90% of them could not get a job other than working as a TSA agent...

 

[Throckmorton]

The regulation is the regulation. Don't blame the TSA guy doing his job who wants to KEEP his job.

 

[Newbian]

Clearly they needed a sugar rush for the holidays.

 

[Throckmorton]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...eater-tsa-confiscates-womans-frosted-cupcake/

Why the fuck is the cupcake in a jar?

You know what? Something is wrong with you if you DON'T think a cupcake in a jar is suspicious.

 

[randomrogue]

That's a bizarre cupcake. I might have made the same call.

 

[dmcowen674]

Maybe they detected Balsamic Vinegar....

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

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

Balsamic Syrup

Free-lance writer Virginia Phillips wrote "Cooking in the Kitchen." Buried in the recipe for Thyme-Roasted New Potatoes" was its secret weapon, Balsamic Syrup, a mahogany-colored syrup to drizzle over not just those delicious potatoes, but also mustard greens, spinach, chicken or lamb -- any dish that needs a tangy counterpoint.

1 cup balsamic vinegar
2 scant tablespoons sugar


Stir vinegar and sugar in heavy small saucepan and boil slowly until liquid is reduced to 1/2 cup, about 10 minutes. Mix in 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme. Store in a small pitcher in the fridge.

 

[Macamus Prime]

That's a bizarre cupcake. I might have made the same call.

They should have gunned her down and put the entire western part of the USA under martial law.

 

[Dulanic]

WTF a cupcake in a jar? I would have confiscated it just for the stupidity of putting it in a jar.

 

[Nebor]

They should have gunned her down and put the entire western part of the USA under martial law.

Oh shits, I'd go straight to Craig's house.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

How to you eat a cupcake when it is in a jar? With a spoon?

 

[Lanyap]

It is unusual to have a cupcake in a jar but it looks like a new fad. If it had been a regular cupcake they would not have confiscated it.

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/sweets/cupcakes-in-a-jar-the-latest-cupcake-craze-142206

http://www.google.com/search?q=cupc...&ei=WrP4TsP9Nc-1twe5psjQBg&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QsAQ

 

[dmcowen674]

It is unusual to have a cupcake in a jar but it looks like a new fad. If it had been a regular cupcake they would not have confiscated it.

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/sweets/cupcakes-in-a-jar-the-latest-cupcake-craze-142206

http://www.google.com/search?q=cupc...&ei=WrP4TsP9Nc-1twe5psjQBg&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QsAQ

Well cupcakes get hard pretty quick.

I bet they stay fresher and softer longer in the jars.

TSA could have just opened the jar to check the cupcake out if that afraid of it.