Sweet Surrender

[Snowbird]

I perhaps should have titled this thread Insanity 101...I don't know. What do you think?

It is possible that the gel-like frosting on that cupcake, which makes me really hungry, could have possibly, just possibly, hidden a nanobot or two that when instructed by the passenger, with the code phrase sugar-sprinkles could have blown up the plane while in mid-flight. Will we ever know for sure? Due to the fast and efficient work of the TSA officials in Las Vegas, the land of illusion, all terror prospects and security threats were removed and thwarted.

Look on the bright side....Prof. Haines saved herself one additional pound of body fat due to TSA's quick and thoughtful actions.

TSA confiscates cupcake as ‘security threat’

By David Ferguson
Saturday, December 24, 2011

A 35-year-old university professor was forced to surrender her cupcake to TSA officials at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Wednesday on grounds that it posed a potential “security threat.” According to MSNBC.com, the security officer said that the frosting on the red velvet cupcake was enough like a gel to violate the administration’s restrictions on liquids and gels which may be used as explosives.

The professor, who lives north of Boston, said, “It’s not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake. 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.” - Thank you, Prof. Haines.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/24/tsa-confiscates-cupcake-as-security-threat/

[baddbob]

I know one thing for sure..Im hiding my cupcakes;)

[Snowbird]

I know one thing for sure..Im hiding my cupcakes;)

:biggrin1: baddbob, that is just too rich!! :thumb:

[Snowbird]

Oh that Frightening Frosting. Go ahead and Google TSA cupcake and you will see multiple pages of hits.

EVERYBODY is talking about this....as they should be.

[Orph]

What gobbledygook. Putting plastic explosives in the icing is such a waste of a good cupcake. The real threat is the cupcakes made with wildwood weed. :plane: >----- :smokin:

[pyrangello]

Wonder if the TSA will let me bring a pumpkin for a ride, omg, lol!

[Nathalie]

I'm thinking this is hysterically funny but at the same time, it's insaaaaaaaaaane! A cupcake is a security threat???? Calgon, take me away.....

[Cartomancer]

This reminds me of the time I was traveling with nothing but a guitar and a carry on in Tampa, Florida. While going through the metal detector I was approached by a TSA agent with a crew cut who immediately began yelling and screaming at me from about 3 inches away. Right in my face right in front of all the other people in the terminal. He was trying to get me to yell back. This is a typical law enforcement tactic.

I was then "selected" for a full pat down. The same guy grabbed my genitals so hard it hurt for the entire 4 hour flight. As I was doubled over in pain after this several of them actually laughed at me while literally a hundred people were watching. I was humiliated and basically tortured because I had long hair and a guitar. I have since cut my hair (for my own reasons) and do notice I get treated "normally" now.

My mother was ill right after 911 and I traveled several times. This was when they were doing "random" screening before I cut my hair. Out of seven flights and four layovers during those I was selected "randomly" EVERY time! Eleven out of eleven possible times and I was selected randomly each time. The TSA is a joke meant to make us all afraid and take advantage of us. Micahael Chertoff the former head of the TSA owns a major share in the company that makes the "naked body scanners." He is also an Israeli/US dual citizen as is Rahm Emanuel the former chief of staff of the white house/obama.