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    Mass. woman disputes TSA portrayal of her cupcake

    PEABODY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman says federal safety officials are mischaracterizing a frosted cupcake in a jar that was confiscated from her at a Las Vegas airport.

    The Transportation Security Administration says it considered the icing on the cupcake a gel exceeding the 3-ounce limit for airline carry-on luggage. The limit is designed to stop terrorists seeking to evade detection by using explosives made of plastics, liquids or gels.

    The TSA says in a blog post the cupcake taken last month had a thick layer of icing inside the jar.

    But Peabody (PEE'-buh-dee) resident Rebecca Hains said Wednesday her jar consisted of three layers of cupcake, each topped with a medium layer of icing, not a thick layer.

    The bakery that makes the red velvet cupcake has renamed it National (Security) Velvet.

     
    • Buster Deekatt  •  Chesaning, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      Did the TSA ever actually weigh the frosting or did they just eat the cupcake?
      • lee 4 mths ago
        Have you noticed that the results of tests on the cupcake are not published yet. Need I say more? Someone at TSA just wanted a good looking cupcake to snack on, and was too cheap to buy one. To prove my point, the next time that you buy some cupcakes at the store, weigh one, with or without icing.
      • Spawn32f 4 mths ago
        well they do want that buzz from the icing cause it was made with bourbon
      • hello s 4 mths ago
        well they had to eat it to make sure it was really a cupcake so its a lose lose situation.lol
    • MLB  •  4 mths ago
      No different than when you're DRINKING from a bottle of water in front of them and they tell you to throw it out or finish it before you can get past their checkpoint. Totally assinine!
      • Morning Meeting Woman 4 mths ago
        Seriously....when flying in Mexico last year, I had a metal bottle full of water. NOW, I KNOW we are not allowed to fly with water in our bottles, but just the year before they were letting people through with cups of starbucks. Well, security tightened up! It was a special bottle I had decorated for my fiance, so we start chugging the water as there was no place to dump it. You would think that once we got about 8-12 oz in, they would see that we were not gulping down explosives and just say OK OK MOVE ALONG!
      • sageclips 4 mths ago
        they deny ya with water so they can sell ya nother beyond he security checkpoint fer 5 times the cost ... greedy bugggers
    • Stormcrow  •  4 mths ago
      Love the new name of the cupcake. they can make another type with nuts and call it the Napolitano Nutcake.
      • Paul 4 mths ago
        Better yet, put an excess of nuts to one side, and we can call it a Left Wing Nutcake or a Right Wing Nutcake.

        Or take out all the nuts, and call it a No More Wingnut Cupcake.
    • Grumpy  •  4 mths ago
      TSA should just admit that their security personnel were a bit anal in their enforcement. It was a big laugh, which has become more and more of a joke - and not in a 'nice' way...
    • DJRickyV  •  4 mths ago
      Hmm, yet women with TWO cupcakes full of much more than 3 ounces of gel can board with no problem lol.
      • Grumpy 4 mths ago
        Hmmm... Good visual on that - and would like to see TSA try to confiscate them!
    • Abe  •  4 mths ago
      Fortunately, the TSA agent was able to wrestle the cupcake out of the jar and defuse it by eating it.
      • MLB 4 mths ago
        LOL.......good one!
    • Penelope  •  4 mths ago
      Must have been a very hungry TSA employee!
    • Odd Ball  •  4 mths ago
      Better watch out! Next time they will confiscate your cookies. "I'm sorry Miss, but that is a dangerous looking cookie you've got there."
    • RJ  •  Austin, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Probably the agent was just hungry. Some have been stealing other things to feed a drug habit.
    • JimmieMee  •  Oneals, California  •  4 mths ago
      Does anyone else see the growing trend?....The People are getting tired of having ignorant fools rule over them.....the ignorant fools respond by making the rules harsher, they want control over every aspect of our lives?
    • Mekhong Kurt  •  Bangkok, Thailand  •  4 mths ago
      I normally defend the TSA when people get their panties all twisted over legitimate security concerns, but this time? Spare me. A friggin' CUPCAKE?What about a lady with gel-enhanced breasts, gel weighing far more than three ounces? They want her to take her #$%$ off, or what???
    • CMN_Trailrider  •  4 mths ago
      Why is security so tough on a cupcake but so weak on our borders?
    • jsf  •  4 mths ago
      If the cupcake was a threat in Las Vegas, then the TSA was at fault for letting it through at her departure airport a few days before. What does the TSA say about a 9-inch cake spread with the same total amount of icing?
    • MARKL  •  4 mths ago
      I am 6'5'' 300lbs; i can crush a man's head with my bare hands, do i get to fly?
    • tuna  •  4 mths ago
      large marge ate it
    • Mark  •  4 mths ago
      The TSA violates Americans 4th amendment rights on a daily basis. When are people going to stand up for their rights?
    • William S  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      I feel so much safer now that the TSA has caught 0 terrorists!
    • C.D.  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  4 mths ago
      Did anyone else notice they give you pronunciation for Peabody?
    • Molly  •  4 mths ago
      Hey, if some grubby TSA agent stole my cupcake for a snack, I'd be pretty angry as well.
    • Trucker Jim  •  Kansas City, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      TSA bites the big one:(
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