TSA Eats Your Cake

This from the TSA website:

Of course, it will be out of date by the time you get to the checkpoint.

Also this:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/c...g-traveler-thinks-tsa-takes-cake-2049694.html

 

WTF?! "Additional screening"??

 

I know where it is. Let me find the picture.

 

Found it for you:

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If you want it back, you know where it is.

 

Takes the cake and eats it too, now on Drudge.
There must be a more direct and cost-effective way to have baked treats and other items stolen from us...

 

Lace it with Ex-lax and "surrender" it to the smurfs.

 

A la Dumb and Dumber...

 

Unfortunately that constitutes felony assault on a government employee, good for 20 years in Marion.

So does mixing in hasheesh.

 

Buzz kill -

 

Really.
For consuming my former property? Same if some blue gloved dolt pokes himself with my "surrendered" tweezers?

 

When it gets to trial, it will be seen as the equivalent of putting razor blades in Halloween treats.

 

Not if it is "surrendered" because they have determined that it is hazardous. If they then choose to eat it, that's their problem. I would simply transport the ex-lax pie to my destination. If it arrives without being confiscated, stash it in the freezer for the return trip.

However since cakes and pies are supposedly permitted, there should be fewer confiscation -- few enough that the average ex-lax pie carrier would be end up taking it home & discarding it himself.

If you really want to frustrate the thieves, insist that it be disposed in your presence in a manner that renders it unfit to eat, e.g. open & upside down in the disposal barrel.

 

More akin to placing red dye in money bags to thwart thieves of another variety. If you tell the TSO-thief, ''well, ok, why don't you eat it then", you have a problem. If you have a reasonable expectation that it will be properly disposed along with other hazardous items, you should have nothing to worry about. Taking "surrendered" items for your own use actually constitutes theft.

 

I agree that's the way it should be. But you know as well as I do what happens when a prosecutor get hold of something like this. (expletive deleted), it could be seen as a terrorist attack on TSA.

 

Not to mention said cake was in a checked bag. It wasn't "surrendered," it was simply stolen.

But no message scribbled on the side saying, "Yum, Yum" or "Got Milk?"

 

I think, by the time they eat the ex-lax cake and feel its effects, the checked bag will be well on its way to its destination. They'll have no idea whose cake it was to blame.

 

In this instance they had the audacity to actually cut themselves a slice of cake from a whole cake. Presumably some passenger "surrendered" a knife for the purpose.

As expected, TSA officials found no evidence of wrongdoing.

Simply unbelievable that this sort of behavior goes unchecked on a routine basis.

 

So wait, if a cig lighter is "surrender for discard," and a screener decides to crack it open and drink the butane, is the original owner still in trouble?

If the cake/pie had to be surrendered because it was hazardous (the only reason for it to be surrendered according to TSA's official mission blah blah etc) and the screener decides to eat it, I don't see how any lawyer can argue this with a straight face and keep his/her license or not be ridiculed.

I mean, if you eat a hazardous item on purpose-beyond the age of .....oh....5, its really your own darn fault.

 

If this happened to me, I wouldn't be eating what was left of it. Who knows where else those blue gloves had been before someone got to the cake box?

 

No, actually, since Ex-Lax is not a firearm, and assuming the smurf doesn't poop himself to death, it would be, even if it could be proven, a minor assault under 18 USC 351, with a Sentencing Guideline of zero to six months, which would probably be reduced to a conditional discharge under Chapter 2 of the Federal Sentencing Guideline, since the clerk's wrongful behavior in stealing the food contributed to the result