TSA Confiscates Cupcake

Posted by deancameron on December 24, 2011 under The TSA, Unreasonable Search?, USA PATRIOT ACT, You're kidding me! | Be the First to Comment

TSA Agent cites “frosting as security risk”.

Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-24/news/30555105_1_cupcake-tsa-airport-security

The victim of this fiasco (besides each and every one of us) sums it all up rather nicely:

“It’s not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake,’’ she said. “It’s about an encroachment on civil liberties. We’re just building up a resistance and tolerance to all these things they’re doing in the name of security, when it’s really theater. It is not keeping us safe.’’