Not even fruitcakes are welcome as carry-on baggage: security official (WMD?)

Yahoo News ^ | 12/09/03

[Libloather]

Not even fruitcakes are welcome as carry-on baggage: security official
Tue Dec 9, 4:15 PM ET

MONTREAL (CP) - Holiday travellers are being advised to forget the fruitcake as carry-on luggage if they want to avoid delays when boarding planes over the holiday season.

The head of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said Tuesday about 500,000 prohibited items have been intercepted at Canada's 89 airports during the past six months.

Jacques Duchesneau said the public still isn't aware of what is allowed on board.

He said a lot of scissors and Swiss Army knives are still being confiscated along with toy guns, ice skates and flammable liquids in aerosol cans.

Duchesneau noted even fruitcakes will be X-rayed because they're dense and could hide a weapon.

"I guess you would be wondering why we have something against fruitcakes," he told a news conference, holding one aloft. "Well, not really.

"When seen through an X-ray machine it might represent something we might need to check. It's very dense. We don't take any chances."

Bottled liquids, such as homemade wine, will also be rejected.

Duchesneau said the only bottles allowed on planes are those with alcohol that have a government seal.

He added he was surprised when a passenger became upset when told he couldn't bring a parachute on board.

[Libloather]

...they're dense and could hide a weapon.

Finally! The perfect reason to make fruitcake and they're going to ruin it!

[angkor]

Duchesneau said the only bottles allowed on planes are those with alcohol that have a government seal.

Great. Next time I fly in North America I'll bring a fifth of Chivas rather than a liter of Aquafina.

By the way, you can fly with bottled water, "fruit wines", and probably fruitcakes once you've departed the Great American Flying Gulag.

[rickmichaels]

Holiday travellers are being advised to forget the fruitcake as carry-on luggage if they want to avoid delays when boarding planes over the holiday season.

So much for tolerance and diversity.

[SC DOC]

Fruitcake Uses

[battlegearboat]

Fruitcakes are the bomb!

[Poohbah]

Fruitcakes are lethal weapons in an of themselves.

[Republicus2001]

is that the same fruitcake that has been going around the US for the past 75 years? And now the TSA doesn't want it either?

[DugwayDuke]

Actually, my Mother's fruit cake was quite popular around her church. She was a Southern Baptist who saw nothing wrong with using alcohol as a food additive. Mom added about a pint of dark rum to each cake. You could get high at about five feet from one of them. Her fellow Baptists loved them. Personally, I thought it was a waste of good rum.

[Rebel_Ace]

Actually, the last time I flew for business, the TSA security agent confiscated my slide rule, protractor and compass.

He said they were, "Weapons of Math Instruction."

Baa-da-dum!

[mhking]

Well, fruitcake is used as a weapon against the relative you despise the most...

Just damn.

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[spodefly]

He added he was surprised when a passenger became upset when told he couldn't bring a parachute on board.

Huh?

[xrp]

What the hell? I was on a Delta Connect flight last night and some lady had an annoying little doggie in a carrier that she brought on the plane. That stinky canine should have been tossed in the cargo hold!

[Grampa Dave]

I have seen many fruit cakes that should be classified as a potential lethal weapon. I would not want to be hit by one in an act of violence.

[Riley]

Shh...don't tell anybody, but I *like* fruitcake!

[Poohbah]

Dude, you're sick. Get help (c8

[DannyTN]

"Finally! The perfect reason to make fruitcake and they're going to ruin it!"

You were going to hide a weapon in one? Or were you just going to use fruitcake like a brick and throw it at the terrorist?

[boris]

Weapons of Mass Dyspepsia?

[Normal4me]

Door stop Bump!

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[cajun-jack]

most of the fruitcakes i have "enjoyed" in my lifetime are a weapon in themselves!!!! drop one of those things from an overpass and it will take out both lanes for 20 ft in both directions.

construction companies buy all the surplus fruitcakes for a dollar each and use them for wrecking balls in the demolition crew.