YET FRUITCAKES FLY WITH IMPUNITY
(Thanks to Horace LaBadie, The Perts, Mac D, Joe in Japan, jay brandes, Rich Klinzman and Catherine)
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Is that icing on the cake, or what?
Posted by: tash | December 25, 2011 at 01:38 PM
I knew they were a bunch of
icingcake-eaters.Posted by: tash | December 25, 2011 at 01:39 PM
I actually got into a small Christmas Eve argument over this with my dad. I said it was crazy but my very military dad said they were just doing their job. I still think it's crazy.
Posted by: nursecindy | December 25, 2011 at 01:57 PM
You cannot be too careful. It might have been fruitcake.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | December 25, 2011 at 02:43 PM
They were not "doing their job," cindy, (IMHO) they were idiots.
She even offered to take it out and put it in a see-through resealable bag (as Dave has taught us all to do) but the guy was clearly afraid the icing would explode or something.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 25, 2011 at 03:22 PM
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 25, 2011 at 03:35 PM
I guess it goes without saying that The Exploding Cupcakes wbagnfarb.
Posted by: nursecindy | December 25, 2011 at 03:37 PM
Holiday crowds, chaos, confusion, and TSA as the icing on the cake.
Posted by: PirateBoy | December 25, 2011 at 04:03 PM
If you take the cupcakes from law-abiding citizens...
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | December 25, 2011 at 04:12 PM
I saw The Frosted Cupcakes open for Metallica.
Now had she said, "You can have my cupcake when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" I could understand it.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 25, 2011 at 04:29 PM
They can take my cupcakes when they pry my cold, dead fingers from the icing.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | December 25, 2011 at 04:33 PM
I loved her characterization of it all as "theater." Precisely correct.
If, perish the thought, I were doing front-line TSA work like this, every encounter would have me thinking, "Is this the one that gets me mocked on the net, world-wide; disciplined; and eventually fired?" I couldn't take it.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 25, 2011 at 04:50 PM
It would leave me frosted.
Posted by: tash | December 25, 2011 at 05:13 PM
The lady is correct!
The TSA hired the Grinch. Let this be news on every
wire and press service, every media outlet.
I'd have eaten the "evidence", if I were her.
No doubt the TSA agent will do the same....jerk!!!
Posted by: funny man | December 25, 2011 at 05:30 PM
What next... scanning jelly doughnuts ? "
Posted by: Clankie | December 25, 2011 at 05:38 PM
Maybe the TSA can follow me around and I can lose those pesky 70 pounds.
Posted by: LeDud | December 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM
I asked a TSA agent what they do with the stuff they confiscate from people at the gate. He pointed at a large plastic trash barrel. "Then what?" I asked. He told me that it got thrown away. So they know perfectly well that the stuff they're taking away from people isn't dangerous. They wouldn't just toss dangerous substances into a dumpster. If they genuinely thought the shampoo/toothpaste/cupcake was hazardous, they'd have a procedure other than "throwing it away."
Posted by: Mickie | December 25, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Yes, it was the right thing to do. You people just don't realize the danger posed by American communications professors traveling with cupcakes. If you had my specialized training and experience, then you would these kinds of things.
Obviously, you are all amateurs who need to leave this work to the professionals.
Posted by: Monsieur Mark | December 27, 2011 at 11:47 PM