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Merry Christmas From The TSA, OR, How A Cupcake Became A Security Threat

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Rebecca Hains was only trying to make her flight from Las Vegas a lil’ sweeter when she was stopped by a TSA agent and promptly informed that the frosting on her cupcake was too “gel-like” and, as such, posed a possible security threat. You know, just like all those dastardly gel-filled snowglobes you’re not allowed to bring in your carry-on bags.

Even stranger: Hains, who had been given two cupcakes as a gift, had been allowed to bring them on her an earlier flight from Boston’s Logan International Airport without incident.

Hains contacted the the cupcake maker, Wicked Good Cupcakes, which told her they’d ship her a whole new batch for free. “Apparently we’re a tasty, terrorist threat,” they said. “I guess we were also amazed at what can pass through security in one airport, but not in another.”

RELATED: TSA Agents Reportedly Strip-Searched An 85-Year-Old Woman

For those of you who are curious, the cupcake pictured in this post is Wicked Good Cupcakes’ “Rock Candy Cake” and I would like one.

Have a look at a report on Hains’ ordeal. And do be careful when transporting your sweets this holiday season. Better yet, don’t risk it; send them all to me:

h/t The Boston Channel

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  • Anonymous

    “The terrorists” win every day.

  • Anonymous

    Hains doesn’t need any more cupcakes. And the story that she carried them around for an entire trip is highly suspicious.

    TSA should’ve bounced her for the sake of her seatmates.

  • Anonymous
  • Gloves O. Donahue

    Wouldn’t that frost ya?

  • South Park Conservatives

    Only in Obamas’ America.

  • Anonymous

    LOL good jokes. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    And we wonder why people cringe when they think of having to take a plane.   The TSA, committed to destroying the joy of flying and the airline business, one cupcake at a time.

    Next stop, interstate travel…

  • Anonymous

    Funny how these abuses are NEVER the TSA’s fault.

    The brave workers of TSA, protecting us from cupcakes, shampoo and incontinent old ladies. This agency is a disgrace that employs criminals and misfits. It just doesn’t seem to stop. If they’re not stealing from passengers, they’re strip searching them, groping their kids or harassing them. TSA needs to be shut down and anyone who voted to fund them voted out of office.

    TSA Crimes & Abuses
    bit.ly/TravelUndergroundTSAabuses

  • Anonymous

    Osama bin Ladin may be dead, but he kicked our butts and watched us crawl.

  • Smack80

    Obama did not bring us the TSA! Having trouble with short-term memory loss, are we?

  • Smack80

    Just don’t try to sneak across the California state line with an orange!

  • Smack80

    Sad but true!

  • South Park Conservatives

    Obama and big sis did bring us TSA molestation.

  • Smack80

    I’ll give you that.

  • Anonymous

    If this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit nothing will.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1uqrwLmQk

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=643366339 Garfield Lawrence

    Isn’t there a minimum level of intelligence (and common sense) required to be a TSA agent?

  • Darr247

    Bush/Vader (oops – I mean Bush/Cheney) made up the DHS and TSA out of whole cloth instead of holding the FBI and the rest of the Justice branch accountable for totally ignoring all the gathered warning signs of domestic-launched terrorism and refusing to insist the airlines install locks on cockpit doors until after the horse was already out of the barn.

    Next, after the Great Lakes (containing over 80% of the USA’s fresh surface water) have already been poisoned with a few million gallons of dioxin from a freighter’s ballast tanks near Chicago, DHS will insist on testing samples of ballast water before ships are allowed into the St.Lawrence. A lot of good that will do… Ahmanutjob’s hirelings will have already moved on to weaponizing H5N1 by then.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Cupcakes Rule!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    You are kidding, right?   They are the ultimate expression of bureaucracy in action.

  • Anonymous

    I thank God everyday that the Patriot Act and the TSA are protecting us from terrorists.  I feel much better about being groped in public by the TSA after this reminder of the terrifying threat terrorism poses to my well-being.

  • Anonymous

    I hate to use the phrase “the terrorists win,” but every time we give in and alter our behavior due to threats and violence, they really do win.  Even though we’ve freely given up far greater freedoms and altered our behavior as a nation in more serious ways, this is a truly pathetic example of how afraid we are and how willingly we now trade away freedom and sanity for order and “safety,” as if such a thing could be bought.

  • Diana Roemer

    I had to leave a security checkpoint with a small jar of mint jelly (seriously) that I had bought just down the road that I was hand carrying to my 80-year-old father as a gift. It was new and unopened. I had a receipt. Had to turn around, go to baggage check in- check my JELLY along with my carry-on, go BACK through security, get frisked (a second time), (and get apologized to). ‘Merica!
      

  • Anonymous

    we wouldn’t have any of this if it weren’t for ol’ GWB. Nice effort though. 

  • Anonymous

    Sing along with the TSA Blues (“A grim-faced man came up and said/We gotta check you. Remove your head!”—-They called me bad, they called me wicked/Demanded to know if I had liquid/I said, “Just five quarts of blood.”/”That’s over the limit. You’re busted, Bud.”)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LNxvG1qQM

    TSA job application forms ask you what grade you completed in school. There is only space for one digit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    tsk-tsk……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    If only it were Obama’s  America….this bunch are republican owned and  republican profiteering. You don’t think it’s a democrat who profits from your purchase of those Rapidscan machines, do you? Fear is mongered by the right wing, and they are doing a good job of it, when a cupcake is a problem, but then, i wouldn’t want to be the agent who lets a lethal cupcake get aboard….. 

  • Anonymous

    If Ms. Hains had been dressed in appropriate Muslim garb- completely covered except for little eye slit,- she could have gone through TSA checkpoint with cupcakes, hand grenades and machine pistol –but no partridge in a pear tree.  Merry Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    Everybody knows their cupcakes are da bomb! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my fellow internet big mouths!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Good thinkin’, Tex. Hains is clearly a terrorist cell member whose plans to detonate a cupcake on an airplane were thankfully cut short by the savvy experts in TSA. Imagine the carnage that would have otherwise taken place!

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