One has to love the TSA mentality and the logic they use.

TSA spokesman James Fotenos emailed the following statement to The Press regarding Wednesday's checkpoint closure:

Shortly after 12 p.m. EST at Gerald R Ford International Airport (GRR), a suspicious item alarmed during screening at the TSA security checkpoint in Concourse B. To ensure the safety of the traveling public, the checkpoint was temporarily closed and a perimeter was established. The item was cleared and normal screening operations resumed by 12:30 p.m. EST. There was no impact to flight operations and no delays incurred.

No flights were delayed. So what if we didn't let any of the passengers get to those flights, or tell the airlines what was going on so they could hold the flights, it's important that we did not delay any flights. For some reason though the load on those flights was quite light.

Really a terrorist bag of candy?