Ham???
 

Barbara Ehrenreich, the journalist famed for "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switched", has the following on her blog (http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/) today:

"When I flew to Seattle last week, airport security gave me trouble over the four pound ham I was carrying. Several TSA officials gathered to consider the question of whether ham is a “gel,” to which I retorted: If ham is a gel, so am I. I suggested that they biopsy it for hidden box-cutters. I offered to divide it into 21 three-ounce chunks, each appropriately stowed in a Ziploc baggie. But no deal."

The remainder of the piece is about the minimum wage, but this really caught my eye. It must have been a lunch time flight.

I hope the sandwiches were good, boys and girls!

I really, really, really would like to believe she was exaggerating.

I really, really, really believe she wasn't.

That is crazy, the ham should have been allowed to go. Maybe it was caught by a spam filter. Or perhaps pork barrel .... never mind.

Was it a canned ham? I could easily beat someone to death with a four pound canned ham. Sounds like a weapon to me. Not too much different from the commemorative bricks that have been disallowed.

She's lucky they didn't swab it- the nitrate content would have caused them to evacuate the terminal and blow the ham up in the parking lot.

That is about the most scatterbrained article I've ever read.