From the Las Vegas Sun: A Massachusetts woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be explosive.
Peabody resident Rebecca Hains tells WCVB-TV the Transportation Security Administration agent took her cupcake, telling her its frosting was "gel-like" enough to constitute a security risk. The TSA has restrictions on taking liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.
Hains says she had passed through security at Boston's Logan International Airport with two cupcakes packaged in jars. But she says she was stopped Wednesday on her return from Las Vegas with one of them.
TSA spokesman Nico Melendez says the agency is reviewing the situation. He says passengers are allowed to take cakes and cupcakes through checkpoints. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/dec/23/us-odd-cupcake-confiscated/
Well, I guess the TSA was getting tired of being laughed at for strip searching nuns and elderly women, babies and kids in wheelchairs, so now they want to get more attention by confiscating exploding cupcakes.
I guess they have to justify their jobs somehow.
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