"Don't point that thing it might be loaded" - W.C. Fields
Posted on 12/25/2011 9:31:55 PM PST by Dallas59
A Massachusetts woman who flew home from Las Vegas this week says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought its vanilla-bourbon icing could be a "security risk."
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 incident took place Wednesday.
Hains, a teacher, said the cupcake was a gift from one of her students. She was traveling with her husband and toddler, and thought her young son might get hungry on the long trip home.
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.
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“Hey lady, that cupcake looks like the bomb!”
Forget gel ICING. What about what might be inside any cake? Or almost any thing?
Bomb sniffing dogs are needed like, yesterday.
So why didn’t she just eat it?
She should have worn a headscarf-—then they would have let her through security no questions asked and intact cupcake too.
TSA is just another make-work government union.
"Don't point that thing it might be loaded" - W.C. Fields
In a somewhat saner day they probably would have asked her to take a bit of the “gel” on a toothpick and do just that.
And to think if she’d brought it in Tupperware or a used Cool-Whip tub (plastic lid) the gropeaholics would have been unlikely to care.
When cupcakes are outlawed, only outlaws will wield cupcakes.
When I do fly, it’s because I’m on the clock for my job for at least $40. Other than that, I’ll take a multi-day road trip before flying anywhere. I used to fly from Salt Lake to Denver with my wife to visit her sisters. But since flying only saves 2-3 hours and carries a lot more aggravation, we just drive it now.
Oops, I meant “$40/hr”.
You work cheap.
Its only a cupcake.. STFU and get on the plane..
This story was the icing on the cake for not flying. :-)
See #10. Oops, that was supposed to be per hr unless I’m on overtime.
She probably would have been arrested for "destruction of evidence."
Mark
“So why didn’t she just eat it?”
Just to make sure the TSA “agent” didn’t have it for a snack, I’d have spit on it before handing it over.
I figured it was either per hour or $400 fee.....
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I have considered wearing a turban and carrying a Koran prominently displayed, so I could sail through.
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