TSA Cupcake Wasn’t Really a Cupcake; Security Defends Confiscation

Yep that's one explosive cupcake in a jar! I am sure it has been eaten by TSA( Total Stupid @ssholes).

The TSA is a blight on America!

I agree that some of the calls made by TSA seem crazy, but I'd rather them be overly safety concious than to find myself splattered across the USA.

I would rather they confiscate someone's cupcake than be on a plane that blows up because it turned out to be an explosive. I've had stupid things confiscated myself but I understand they're just trying to do their job.

goodbye freedom………….

Great, now no food at all is going to be allowed on a plane, unless it's from the airline and you're up in the air… Fantastic.

I would be more worried about the jar! Broken glass can slit someone's throat, same as a boxcutter.

TSA really messed this one up, she was allowed to bring it on one plane but not another, Double standard or was the TSA agent hungry?

I say on a situation like that you have them take a big bite of the cup cake and watch them eat it… if it turns out to be something else I'm sure they would show it with their face, and by the time they board, they might explode from sickness if it was something else…. Yay, problem solved.

Are you kidding me? there has not been ONE confirmed plot stopped by the TSA! It is nothing but an unconstitutional, illegal search and seasure.

If you give up freedom for security, you will end up with neither.

the confiscated a cupcake but they let a man on a plane with a sword in a cane. look it up.

Do you remember the constitution of the united states? how about article 4: Right of search and seizure regulated.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The TSA violates the CONSTITUTION! For those of you that think this is ok, you deserve to lose your freedoms!

Tia Delini Dean dont worry sweety, they will only conficate your food if it looks really good and they are hungry.

too bad everyone else does too, due to this mentaliity.

Fran Shipp It is these intelegent yet stupid people who allow this to be done. When we lose the constitution then we lose our nation.

Roy Dean They also love to take brand new lip gloss that cost 20 euros=27 bucks… Haters.

Roy Dean like mall cops they have to do "something" to make itlook like they are being effective. They are not qualified to do anything but be arrogant SOBs

Tia Delini Dean If they allowed you to mail your "illegal to bring on plane" stuff home I wouldn't mind. How about have the Post Office work security instead. They could use the business!

Roy Dean *intelligent

Stephanie Nichols yes. I suck at spelling. always have.

I had a friend that had 3 yogurts confenscated and he sent his pocket knife back home in an envelope but when he got on the plane the guy next to him was bleeding so he went to his emergency safety kit and found that they had not confinscated his box cutter which he used to cut medical tape. the government has no buisness being involved in buisness it should be up to the airlines to secure their own airlines at their own expense not the tax payers and flyer beware the pilot carrys multiple guns and is prepared to use them.

Sue Sodomin Exactly! Poor Post Office. The Gov't totally screwed them in the long run. Big business is evil.

Roy Dean Agree wholeheartedly. That's what I meant.. everyone else loses.

I would have just eaten the cupcake and got on the plane. Duh!

I guess most of you IDIOTS have already forgotten 9/11, or maybe you just don't give a damn!

Regardless of the quality of job TSA have been doing we live in a world where airport security is a necessity.
It's an inconvenience and a pain in the butt to go through all of their procedures, yes, but because of the actions of stupid people who wish harm to others we have to go through these procedures for our own safety. The people at the TSA are trying to protect us just like the police and the army. But, they are also human. There's always going to be the occasional jerk in a position of power that takes advantage of it. There's also going to be the occasional asshole.
The majority of the people in the TSA are just trying to do their jobs. There are definitely some changes that need to be made in the way they go about things for sure. Still I think this story is being blown out of proportion.

The constitution does not protect your right to fly on a plane. It's a privilege. If you don't agree with the TSA rules, feel free to walk to your detination. I have no symapthy for this woman's loss of her cupcake.

Michelle Christensen it is not the airline doing the searches. it is the US government! which makes it illegal search and seasure! READ THE CONSTITUTION. 4th amendment. THERE IS NO EXCEPTION! If you want to destroy the constitution then you are a traitor to the United States!
Right of search and seizure regulated:

The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and EFFECTS, against unreasonable searches and seizures, SHAL NOT BE VIOLATED, and no warrants shall issue, but upon PROBABLE CAUSE, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

This is the LAW! Do you see an exception for airline travel? The whole reason this was included inthe Bill of Rights is that in England people were searched and anything the officials wanted to take, they took. READ YOUR HISTORY BOOK.

Michelle Christensen P.S. I do not fly. I drive anywhere I want to go. But, that is no longer safe from ILLEGAL SEARCH since the TSA is now setting up checkpoints on our highways. Do you remember your history lessons about Nazi Germany? Sound familliar?

When you buy a place ticket you are entering into a contract and you are agreeing to be subjected to a search. If you believe this to be a violation of your rights, then you have the right to walk to your destination. You don't have the right to fly on an airplane! Quote the constitution all you want, but nowhere where it say you have the right to fly.

Michelle Christensen carnt argue with a sheeple.

I had that happen. We were allowed through with our bag of meds (prescriptions in their original containers) in a major international airport but in a small airport they were going to throw them out because they thought we were carrying too many. We had to explain to them that the bag was for four people, my husband, myself, and our two children. This also happened on two other items that were ok at the major airport but not ok at the small one.

Attemptin' to discern the logic, here, "if something doesn’t seem right they could be confiscated." Apparently, This equates with "PROBABLE CAUSE." &, the "affirmation" is credited to the authority & training of the individual TSA, similarly as a beat cop or detective mite breach a door based upon sounds that indicate ta Them 'probable endangerment,' i. e., probable cause fer concern. I fly, half the time, &, don't 'like' some o' the modern inconveniences; yet, I appreciate the dilemma of Law Enforcenent in this instance : How do they, at one & the same time, Truely ensure the safety of Passengers & Crew, while not discouragin' Folks from flyin' (which could not only be construed as a huge inconvenience, at times, but also, an affront to the capitalistic way of life)! {Incidentally, I DO wonder what eventually became of any 'confiscated Cupcakes in a Jar!' ;D} Thus, Constitutionality is met (as well as, potentially, the Hunger of 1 or more TSAs)!! 'Nuff said? ~ >,^.^,<

We DO have the option of diverting many of the items considered 'contraband' fer Carry-on, to be repackaged as, or, repacked in Our, checked-in Luggage. I've had occasion ta do this fer a key-ring pocket knife that had sentimental value!! Again, inconvenient, &, yet, it got the job done! ~ >,^.^,<

Ray Ballinger it is not about the loss of things in your pocket. it is about the search. old ladies being strip searched, young girls and ladies being sexually groped, young babies being groped inside of the diaper… it is all happening. search it. This is the issue. Now, the TSA is doing roving patrols in bus stations, train stations and even on the highway. Can you say police state?

Ray Ballinger except here at PHL where they have caught TSA stealing things from checked in luggage which we pay the privilege for