TSA defends confiscation of cupcake.."that was no ordinary cupcake"

[TXboomerang]

Ahhh, the TSA, another small government adventure brought to us by the "conservative" GWB and Co.

[AONE]

Originally Posted by SoEdible

Also, you can't eat or "lick" something off just for it go through.

For the record, I was stopped with a bottle of aloe vera which was 150ml... 50 over the limit. I was in Amsterdam. I drank some of the stuff and was allowed to proceed....

TSA are a bunch of idiots that apparently can't tell the difference from a confection vs a dangerous item, must be why so many get past them.

HSA would be the first dept I would eliminate.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by TXboomerang

Ahhh, the TSA, another small government adventure brought to us by the "conservative" GWB and Co.

Why stop at 2008. 2009-present Obama and Congress extended every single piece of that bill that was expiring.

So the adventure continues under the Dems whether you want to admit it or not.

[SoEdible]

Originally Posted by AONE

For the record, I was stopped with a bottle of aloe vera which was 150ml... 50 over the limit. I was in Amsterdam. I drank some of the stuff and was allowed to proceed....

TSA are a bunch of idiots that apparently can't tell the difference from a confection vs a dangerous item, must be why so many get past them.

HSA would be the first dept I would eliminate.

You were in Amsterdam? Not in the U.S., correct?

Also, you can't say what TSA should be doing because people in Amsterdam allowed you to do it. Did it ever occur to you that maybe that is a bad policy on their part to allow you to do that? Or maybe even there you weren't supposed to do that, but the employee allowed you to?

[wawa1992]

Par for the course for the TSA, which tends to have an intelligence level between a rat and a chimpanzee.

[Kracer]

Now if the cupcake was stuffed inside someone's fruit of the looms you might have a case.

Hope they saved and documented that cupcake as a training lesson. Or at least took it to an isolated area and blow it up.

Obviously the TSA has eliminated the human factor and act as if they were a computer program without any attempt at artificial intelligence.

Too Bad GWB felt pressure to accept the suggestions of the 911 commission.