Posted on 12/23/2011 11:08:10 AM PST by george76
BOSTON -- A Peabody woman says a cupcake she tried to take on a flight with her sparked a potential security threat this week. Rebecca Hains says she was going through security at the airport in Las Vegas when a TSA agent pulled her aside and said the cupcake frosting was “gel-like” enough to constitute a security risk.
She said she was able to pass through Logan International Airport security with two cupcakes, but she was stopped on the way back when she tried to return with one of them.
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simulated security. make citizens inconvenienced to scare those who are not scared.
An overweight woman with 3 muffintops resembling “pat” is not going to enchance the security.
The worst was when I had a gout attack during a visit and had forgotten my medication. When time came to leave my left big toe was so swollen I couldn't wear a regular shoe. I put on a loose-fitting slipper instead.
While waiting for our flight we were seated opposite the TSA area and I noticed they were very interested in me as I hobbled around. When time came to board I was pulled out of line immediately for a "special inspection." I explained the situation but was ordered to remove both the slipper and my sock. They went over both with minute care, almost determined to find some kind of "slipper explosive." During all that my poor swollen toe was practically glowing red for any fool to see.
TSA is an idiotic bureaucracy and if the Rats get away with unionizing it, it'll be with us in increasingly oppressive form forever.
By the time this happened, that poor multi-day-old cupcake must have been pretty beat up and the frosting may in fact have looked pretty gummy and gel-like. It is un-American to let a fresh cupcake survive uneaten for more than a couple hours.
They have gotten away with it. The American Federation of Government Employees won the election.
The TSA thugs should wear KKK hoods because either way they always seem to remain anonymous, story after story.
Always get their names if it’s the last thing you do.
Or pointed sticks?
I’m traveling cross country tomorrow. I always opt out of the scan. I can’t wait for the TSA morons to feel me up yet again... I just hope they don’t squeeze my “cupcakes” too hard.
Everyone’s so amused. Laughing all the way to the cattle cars.
And some say rebellion is brewing. Hell, there isn’t even a halfassed boycott brewing.
If it had been a fruit cake the whole airport would have been shut down.
That’s really depressing news. I hadn’t heard — thanks for the update.
They’re obama voters. What did you expect?
Now, if it had been fruitcake, who could blame the guy?
A friend of mine jokes that her favorite part of flying is the pat-down; she says it’s the only action she gets anymore.
A friend of mine jokes that her favorite part of flying is the pat-down; she says it’s the only action she gets anymore.
I would have just licked off the frosting.
“I would have just licked off the frosting.”
A sensible and pragmatic action like that would probably have gotten you pepper sprayed and repeatedly Tasered until you went into cardiac arrest.
Is your friend Gloria Allred?
You are absolutely correct. Its all fun and games until its too late to do anything about it.
Eyes
As soon as some security type learns how to turn on the TV, he’ll see the show about the explosives that were developed during WWII to look like flour. The idea was these explosives would pass most inspections and could be smuggled behind enemy lines. You could actually bake this ‘flour’ or even cook pancakes with it. Wouldn’t explode until the proper detonator was used.
After the security types see this show, no one will be allowed to board a plane with a cupcake, a sandwich, or any baked product.
I think the first thing that happens after the new TSA agent gets hired is he or she is given a full frontal lobotomy. There is no other logical reason for such idiotic behavior.
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