But but but--it tested positive for EXPLOSIVES! The only right thing to do is

*flash of common sense*

realize that it's goddamn BABY FOOD and let them through with it anyway.

This seems to me like a really good case for advocating screened and unscreened flights and letting passengers decide.

A baby food jar with trace amounts of explosives is acceptable risk. I don't care what the TSA says about that, they're wrong. Period. Because I say so, so there, shut up, go to hell, not listening. (See, we can use TSA logic too.)

Acceptable risk.

ACCEPTABLE.

As in, I would gladly fly on a plane with this person and their magical nuclear exploding Gerber jar. And I would sit right next to them too and talk about the weather, or whether Canonical should have made Unity the default UI for Ubuntu 11.04, or who would seriously consider buying some of the stuff that SkyMall sells.

And when I get off the plane, alive and well because the "red flag" that was the explosives traces on the baby food was actually just a red herring, I'd wish them happy travels and go on my merry way.

Stealing baby food, how low can you get? I mean, they'd have to literally take candy from a baby and swab it, see that the baby's saliva was actually some rare form of highly-volatile chemical like something out of Farscape and confiscate the candy "out of an abundance of caution" Then again, what if the baby vomits during the flight? That could be even worse than the atomic baby drool they just bravely did their patriotic duty in defending the flight against. Better to confiscate the whole baby just to be sure. Abundance of caution, after all. *sniff* So patriotic. USA TSA! USA TSA! USA TSA!