TSA: "Terrorism Is Chocolatey And Delicious"
Sarah just sent me this Cory Doctorow BoingBoing link, to a TSA worker confiscating somebody's frosting. Rebecca writes:
The agent who first found my dangerously delectable snack consulted [REDACTED] about it just barely within my earshot. He responded hesitantly at first, saying that he was "not sure"--and "with the holidays coming, it's getting harder and harder." When he finally decided my treat was a no-go, I asked to speak with him directly, and he asserted that the frosting on this red velvet cupcake is "gel-like" enough to constitute a liquid, in part because it "conforms to its container." Also: it "should have been in a zip-lock." At this, I offered to scoop my dangerously conformist cupcake out of its jar and place it in a zip-lock bag, where it could mush about to its heart's content; but Agent [REDACTED] wisely refused. After all, the jar in all its tasty glory "clearly contains more than 3 ounces of total contents," he said.I then explained to [REDACTED] that I'd been allowed to bring cupcakes-in-jars through Boston's Logan airport on my outbound flight with no problem (the TSA agent there had exclaimed, "These look delicious!"). To this logic, [REDACTED] responded, "If Boston had done their job right in the first place, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now." (Take that, Boston!)
CLEARLY [REDACTED] is in the right, because unbeknownst to him, when I had previously opened one of these marvelous cupcakes on the flight from Boston, everyone's safety was jeopardized. There was pandemonium among my hunger-crazed fellow travelers: Everybody wanted one. (Just like [REDACTED], who probably ate my cupcake on his next break.)
Oh, and apparently, Cory missed one of the TSA worker's names at first [REDACT]. Apparently, according to a BoingBoing commenter, it's Epps. EPPS! EPPS! EPPS in Vegas.
Come on -- don't let these people earning a rather tasty living violating our rights (along with the most basic common sense) get away without having their names named. When you get groped -- or have your chocolate frosting yanked from you in the name of "security," NAME NAMES.
I took my kid and his friend to the indoor water park today. They made a copy of my driver's license and took a photo of all three of us for their records. No photo, no copy, no entry.
WTF???
Eric at December 23, 2011 3:56 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/12/23/tsa_terrorism_i.html#comment-2871654">comment from EricWow, Eric - this is awful. This is the creep that I see happening vis a vis the TSA being allowed to continue violating our rights at airports. A private business has the right to set up conditions for entry, but I believe it's only possible for them to do this now -- to even consider doing it -- because of the TSA.
Amy Alkon
at December 23, 2011 4:40 PM
Eric -
Has the TSA been contracted for security/groping duties at water parks now?
Wow. Just Wow.
It's lucky for you that you weren't armed with cupcakes...
Savant-Idiot at December 23, 2011 5:49 PM
There's video of Rebecca and her tasty terrorist treats here:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/30062442/detail.html
Martin at December 23, 2011 6:09 PM
You know, chocolate ex-lax makes a wonderful addition to any chocolate cupcake frosting formula. A real hit at TSA lunch holiday parties.
joe wahler at December 23, 2011 7:16 PM
Why stop at ex lax? Put some rat posion in thise dangerous possible explosives. Like TSA ass puppets, excuse me, supporters say if you have nothing to hide you wouldnt mind
If the TSA were doing its job properly they wont die of posioning
lujlp at December 23, 2011 7:38 PM
When TSA Agents drool, your cakes will become their stool!
Assholio at December 23, 2011 8:19 PM
Every time I read something about the TSA I think of something Ben Franklin wrote in 1775; "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." I ponder on how his 18th century words seem to have fallen on deaf 21st century ears.
Then my mind drifts to something I wrote in 2009 for a computer class I was taking at the time; http://hopalonghowie.blogspot.com/2009/06/was-i-sarcastic-enough.html and I wonder how long American's will allow a basic tenet of our civil liberties and ourselves to be violated.
Orson Wells had it right he was just a couple years off.
Howard Tenke at December 23, 2011 9:11 PM
Since Holder has concluded that asking for ID is discriminatory (Dept of Justice is preparing to sue states that are implementing voter ID), I eagerly await his filing suit against the TSA for its discriminatory practices.
Bill O Rights at December 23, 2011 10:31 PM
and he asserted that the frosting on this red velvet cupcake is "gel-like" enough to constitute a liquid, in part because it "conforms to its container." Also: it "should have been in a zip-lock."
I'm sorry, I would comment on this, but I just can't stop laughing. I know it's not funny, but I can't. That is hilarious.
Ltw at December 24, 2011 12:33 AM
The waterpark thing is probably an anti kidnapping/assault of a child measure.
I don't actually have a problem with it, as it's a private company looking out for it's patrons and covering it's own ass in the event of an Amber alert or an allegation that a pedophile groped a kid in a bathroom.
deathbysnoosnoo at December 24, 2011 6:49 AM
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