LAS TSO confiscates Cupcake by claiming its frosting is a "gel"
Jan 11, 2012, 9:24 am
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UPI: TSA strikes back in 'Cupcake-gate'
UPI has posted an item on this:
United Press International
TSA strikes back in 'Cupcake-gate'
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM
It concludes with this sentence:
Rebecca Hains of Peabody, Mass., the traveler with the criminal cupcake, changed her Twitter biography to include "Cupcake Terror Expert!" and created a Facebook page called Rebecca and the Threatening Cupcake, the Times said.Here are those links, to Rebecca Hains' "Cupcake Terror Expert!" (twitter) and Rebecca and the Threatening Cupcake (facebook).
United Press International
TSA strikes back in 'Cupcake-gate'
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM
It concludes with this sentence:
Rebecca Hains of Peabody, Mass., the traveler with the criminal cupcake, changed her Twitter biography to include "Cupcake Terror Expert!" and created a Facebook page called Rebecca and the Threatening Cupcake, the Times said.
Jan 11, 2012, 1:40 pm
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The cupcake has been renamed "National (Security) Velvet." 
Jan 11, 2012, 3:43 pm
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It's too bad she didn't freeze her cupcake before going through security. As we all know from previous TSA encounters, frozen liquids and gels are completely safe. 
I was also thinking of taking a normal 500 ml or 20 oz bottle of water and pouring it into 3.4 oz containers before security. Then after passing through security, pouring the 3.4 oz containers into the original bottle. It might be fun to try that and see what happens.
I was also thinking of taking a normal 500 ml or 20 oz bottle of water and pouring it into 3.4 oz containers before security. Then after passing through security, pouring the 3.4 oz containers into the original bottle. It might be fun to try that and see what happens.
Jan 11, 2012, 4:24 pm
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It's too bad she didn't freeze her cupcake before going through security. As we all know from previous TSA encounters, frozen liquids and gels are completely safe.
I was also thinking of taking a normal 500 ml or 20 oz bottle of water and pouring it into 3.4 oz containers before security. Then after passing through security, pouring the 3.4 oz containers into the original bottle. It might be fun to try that and see what happens.
I was also thinking of taking a normal 500 ml or 20 oz bottle of water and pouring it into 3.4 oz containers before security. Then after passing through security, pouring the 3.4 oz containers into the original bottle. It might be fun to try that and see what happens.
Jan 11, 2012, 5:00 pm
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Maybe the whole point of Bob's preposterous post was to divert attention from a couple bricks of real explosive that passed through the checkpoint at Fayetteville. Bad enough to get pounds of 'artfully concealed' nasty (in a government wrapper, no less) through a checkpoint, but it was apparently in a bag that had been flagged and opened because of another 'artfully concealed' prohibited item, a smoke grenade (or, as one TSO poster here would have us believe, a det**ator artfully disguised as a smoke grenade).
Jan 12, 2012, 4:49 am
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From the Boston Globe web site:
Scandalous success:
Cohasset bakery savors buzz after TSA seizes cupcake
Scandalous success:
Cohasset bakery savors buzz after TSA seizes cupcake
What could have been a public relations disaster - what business wants its sweet offerings placed in the same category as box cutters and explosives? - has turned into a marketing coup.
Business is booming, Noonan said, both for the bakery’s cupcakes and for T-shirts proclaiming “The TSA Stole My Wicked Good Cupcake,’’ with orders coming from as far away as Hawaii. The “Wicked Good to Go’’ cupcakes - layers of cake and filling topped with the frosting that set off TSA alarms because it resembled potentially explosive gel, packaged in a glass jar - are particularly popular, she said. The nine travel varieties are designed to be eaten with a spoon.
Business is booming, Noonan said, both for the bakery’s cupcakes and for T-shirts proclaiming “The TSA Stole My Wicked Good Cupcake,’’ with orders coming from as far away as Hawaii. The “Wicked Good to Go’’ cupcakes - layers of cake and filling topped with the frosting that set off TSA alarms because it resembled potentially explosive gel, packaged in a glass jar - are particularly popular, she said. The nine travel varieties are designed to be eaten with a spoon.
Jan 12, 2012, 5:56 am
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Maybe the whole point of Bob's preposterous post was to divert attention from a couple bricks of real explosive that passed through the checkpoint at Fayetteville. Bad enough to get pounds of 'artfully concealed' nasty (in a government wrapper, no less) through a checkpoint, but it was apparently in a bag that had been flagged and opened because of another 'artfully concealed' prohibited item, a smoke grenade (or, as one TSO poster here would have us believe, a det**ator artfully disguised as a smoke grenade).
Jan 12, 2012, 10:22 am
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The Cupcake Lady has posted a response on Consumerist:
http://consumerist.com/2012/01/the-t...-cupcakes.html
http://consumerist.com/2012/01/the-t...-cupcakes.html
Jan 12, 2012, 10:48 am
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The Cupcake Lady has posted a response on Consumerist:
http://consumerist.com/2012/01/the-t...-cupcakes.html
http://consumerist.com/2012/01/the-t...-cupcakes.html
Jan 12, 2012, 11:19 am
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Originally Posted by Rebecca Haines
Anyway, the TSA's response misses a much bigger point: the story went viral because people across the nation are so incredibly tired of the TSA's security theater. If the TSA were reformed to focus on security—WITHOUT taking naked pictures of us, dousing us with radiation, confiscating medicine, mishandling medical devices, and throwing away our water bottles and nail clippers and so on—well, then the public might have its confidence in the TSA restored
Jan 12, 2012, 12:55 pm
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Enter the TSA Compliant Cupcake, a new product from Silver Spoon Bakery in Providence, R.I. "We wanted to take a tongue-in-cheek look at what the ideal cupcake would be to be TSA compliant," Silver Spoon owner Kelly Colgan says Thursday. "Cupcakes are a fun product."
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Jan 12, 2012, 2:16 pm
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Enter the TSA Compliant Cupcake, a new product from Silver Spoon Bakery in Providence, R.I. "We wanted to take a tongue-in-cheek look at what the ideal cupcake would be to be TSA compliant," Silver Spoon owner Kelly Colgan says Thursday. "Cupcakes are a fun product."
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Jan 12, 2012, 11:38 pm
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Enter the TSA Compliant Cupcake, a new product from Silver Spoon Bakery in Providence, R.I. "We wanted to take a tongue-in-cheek look at what the ideal cupcake would be to be TSA compliant," Silver Spoon owner Kelly Colgan says Thursday. "Cupcakes are a fun product."
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Colgan redesigned the cupcake with security in mind. It's made of basic vanilla bean cake topped with exactly 3 ounces of frosting and packaged in a standard 3-1-1 one-quart see-thru bag. It costs $4 and even comes with its own boarding pass -- and, if you like, comes decorated (see photo) with a Richard Nixon photo and the words "I am not a gel" or other security-related message.
Jan 13, 2012, 12:36 am
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I'll take a couple of those...anyone want to bet those too might get confiscated somewhere. But anyways even I, one who has been warning people of TSA's slippery slope model since their inception am wondering what is going to be next. Think of this, right now a lot of people in this country are reading and or talking about TSA and the cupcake fiasco, not just us. The lunancy involved here is beyond imagine. I can only wonder, and cringe at the thoughts of what we may see next. Nothing, and I mean nothing is beyond impossible now with this organization. If you try to deny that you're only fooling yourself.
Otherwise people might be wondering how 4+ pounds of explosive got through the checkpoint in a bag that was pulled for a check in Fayetteville.
I'm sure TSA would much rather have folks talking about cupcakes.