Obama TSA Defends Confiscating Woman’s Frosted Cupcake

Is this the hope or the change?
Who would have thought three years ago that under the Obama Administration airport screeners would be groping your mother and taking your cupcakes?

The Obama TSA defended its decision to confiscate a woman’s chocolate cupcake.

It’s a security threat.
The AP reported:

The federal Transportation Security Administration is defending its decision to confiscate a frosted cupcake from a Massachusetts woman flying from Las Vegas.

The TSA says in a blog comment posted Monday the cupcake was packed in a jar filled with icing, which is considered a gel under a policy designed to secure travelers from terrorists seeking to evade detection by using explosives made of plastics, liquids or gels.

Peabody (PEE’-buh-dee) resident Rebecca Hains was barred from taking her cupcake onto a plane last month when a TSA agent said icing in the jar exceeded amounts of gels allowed in carry-on luggage. Hains has called that “terrible logic.”

#2 January 10, 2012 at 5:56 am
Tyranny's Bain commented:

Cupcakes…really?

Next they’ll be confiscating…..
Trying to come up something more ridiculous than cupcakes….sorry nothing.

It’s like something right out of Farley Brothers movie.
#3 January 10, 2012 at 6:25 am
CT commented:

TSA, Obama’s unionized travel control thugs.
#4 January 10, 2012 at 6:38 am
bear commented:

The incoherent and inconsistent enforcement by tsa commonly manifests itself as outright theft. Clearly compliant and allowable items passed routinely through SEVERAL connecting flights/airports are (especially if rare or expensive) confiscated with no explanation as to the logic of how those items got that far or what risk is inherent in them. You either walk away, or get detained. This has happened to me. I’ll never enter another airport. (This was before scanners and pat-downs.) The airlines and tsa can kiss my butt.

A far distant relative who actually works for the tsa had this happen to her, also. She said, “If somebody wants something of yours, and they think they can get away with it, it’s gone.”
#5 January 10, 2012 at 7:12 am
dmacleo commented:

for this…I DO blame Bush.
tsa has never stopped anything, and the 911 threat was fixed when we swapped out cockpit doors and actually LOCKED them.
I worked for AMR (AA/AE airlines) when we lost 2 planes and a bunch of souls that day, and a locked door would have stopped it then as it does now.

its all eyewash.
#6 January 10, 2012 at 7:12 am
P. Aaron commented:

If it’s Bah-stun, it’s going to be pronounced: Pee-bah-dee, not Pee-buh-dee.
#7 January 10, 2012 at 7:21 am
RedBeard commented:

You people simply do not understand that food can indeed be a serious weapon. We must have Food Control, beginning with registration of all cafeteria food.

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#8 January 10, 2012 at 8:19 am
Kate commented:

P. Aaron – He got the pronunciation of Peabody correct. Around here (north of Boston, including residents of Peabody), it is pronounced “PEE’-buh-dee”.

As for the cupcake confiscation – how ridiculous can they get!!!
#9 January 10, 2012 at 8:21 am
Kate commented:

dmacleo – As for blaming it all on Bush, Congress had A LOT to do with setting up the TSA. There is plenty of blame to go around. However, the new “boss” has NOT improved anything, only made it worse.
#10 January 10, 2012 at 8:52 am
Mark commented:

2 years ago leaving out of fll we had tsa confiscate a UNopened jar of Nutella for the same reason “over the limit” but yet you can bring “food for immediate consumption” on the plain well my girlfriend likes to eat nutella plain with a spoon we were told no, but if she took the whole jar spread it on a piece of bread it would have been ok. Thats what the tsa lady told us.

Speaking of inconsistencies, I had a screwdriver(didnt even remember it was there) in my laptop bag, went through fll, phx, mke, mia, and several others but coming out of Greensboro, NC one day, man did that tsa agent need a screwdriver for something bad, he made the biggest stink about it, because it was 1/4″ over the size limit, finally i told him just to keep it.

IMO tsa is pretty worthless
#11 January 10, 2012 at 9:03 am
olm commented:

We just flew. TSA was ridiculous. The one airport we flew out of was fine. No complaints, everything as expeected in terms of scanners, searches ect. The other airport however was over the top. Ridiculous. My spouse barely made it through without blowing up (no pun intended). And this was at an airport with relatively low threat.
I can see why the TSA would discorage people from flying. Thatt ridiculous encounter has me considering not flying unless absolutely necessary.
#12 January 10, 2012 at 9:08 am
Wild48cat commented:

Dont laugh, I gave my daughter some nice cheeses for her to take back to college. The cheeses were confiscated by the TSA. In Chicago I was told to remove my wallet and give it to a TSA chap so he could inspect the contents. He told me not to watch him as he inspected the wallet. Criminals and boobs in charge of security!
#13 January 10, 2012 at 9:53 am
retire05 commented:

I refuse to fly. And it is not just the TSA agents that are violating our 4th Amendment rights, people who pack their I-pods, laptops, etc. in their luggage, are finding those items gone when they get their luggage back. Laura Ingram had her jewelry stolen from her luggage. These stories are legend.

Then we have TSA agents caught viewing kiddy porn while they are supposed to be looking at the screening monitors. Young children, old ladies in wheelchairs, nuns, all searched to the point that if any police officer did that he would lose his badge.

And to what end? Has the over aggressive TSA made flying any safer? Nope. Report after report comes out showing how people have boarded planes with loaded weapons. How many times have we read that most major airports get a major “Fail” grade for security?

The last time I flew, I had with me my father’s Zippo lighter that he carried all through WWII. The TSA agent took it away from me and said he was going to throw it away. I called my spouse and said “You have to come back to the airport and get Daddy’s lighter. They want to throw it away.” My spouse came back, and was escorted into and OUT OF the airport because of a WWII Zippo lighter.” It was later reported on the local news that a man boarded the same plane with a 6″ hunting knife that was not detected until the plane reached its destination and it was found when he went through another metal detector for a connecting flight.

The TSA violates our 4th Amendment rights on a daily basis, but we say nothing. We continue to fly (well, I don’t) and lie to ourselves telling ourselves that we are safer. We’re not.
#15 January 10, 2012 at 10:57 am
BridgetGB commented:

Tyranny.
#16 January 10, 2012 at 11:07 am
Patty commented:

The TSA says in a blog comment posted Monday the cupcake was packed in a jar filled with icing, which is considered a gel under a policy designed to secure travelers from terrorists seeking to evade detection by using explosives made of plastics, liquids or gels.

The TSA says in a blog comment posted Monday the cupcake was packed in a jar filled with icing, sounds like one big glob of cupcake and frosting to me. IN A JAR.

Well, really, do you think that anyone at the TSA will be fired over this, no. Will heads roll, no.

But I hope that nothing ever happens in flight and 100′s killed because TSA let one slip by.
#17 January 10, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Rose commented:

But they will always know how stupid AND GREEDY they are and are clearly seen to be by the entire PLANET!

Stupid Marxist Jerks.
#18 January 10, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Rose commented:

Patty – your “logic” fails miserably.

In “Theory”, even breathing air is a deadly threat. NOTHING excuses the Feds for what they are doing to America these days. NOTHING.

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#19 January 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm
just-saying commented:

“Who would have thought three years ago that under the Obama Administration airport screeners would be groping your mother and taking your cupcakes?”

Double entendre.
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#20 January 10, 2012 at 1:20 pm
expat commented:

How is this “Obama’s TSA”? Bush created the stupid thing.
#21 January 10, 2012 at 1:44 pm
RedBeard commented:

It has been Obama’s TSA for three years now. Believe it or not, Bush has been out of office for the same length of time. Strange how that works, ain’t it?
#22 January 10, 2012 at 2:14 pm
xiphos commented:

“Too much hair gel there fella, we’re goin’ to have to give you a Yul Brynner.”