![this is a tragedy> via @thedailywhat:
Tasty Terror Threat of the Day: A Massachusetts woman says TSA agents at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas confiscated her cupcake because its frosting violated TSA regulations by being too gel-like.
“I just thought this was terrible logic,” Rebecca Hains of Peabody told NBC News.
The Salem State University communications professor says the red velvet cupcake, which was sealed inside an 8oz mason jar, was a gift from a student.
She says TSA agents at Boston’s Logan International Airport let her through without incident.
“The TSA agent who saw them, picked them up and said, ‘these look delicious,’ and sent me on my way,” she told 7NEWS. When she confronted the McCarran agents with this fact, she was told that the agents at Logan must not have done their job.
A TSA spokesperson said the matter was under review, and that passengers were generally allowed to bring cupcakes onboard with them.
“It’s not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake,” Hains 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.”
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Dec 26 -
this is a tragedy> via @thedailywhat:
Tasty Terror Threat of the Day: A Massachusetts woman says TSA agents at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas confiscated her cupcake because its frosting violated TSA regulations by being too gel-like.
“I just thought this was terrible logic,” Rebecca Hains of Peabody told NBC News.
The Salem State University communications professor says the red velvet cupcake, which was sealed inside an 8oz mason jar, was a gift from a student.
She says TSA agents at Boston’s Logan International Airport let her through without incident.
“The TSA agent who saw them, picked them up and said, ‘these look delicious,’ and sent me on my way,” she told 7NEWS. When she confronted the McCarran agents with this fact, she was told that the agents at Logan must not have done their job.
A TSA spokesperson said the matter was under review, and that passengers were generally allowed to bring cupcakes onboard with them.
“It’s not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake,” Hains 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.”
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