More NSA stupidity
OK, so does this make sense to anyone else? Our three bottles of juice are confiscated as we go through security at the airport (I did honestly forget about them in my bag,) Husband has to drain his camelback of water, and they made me run Mags' empty sippy cup through El Machino to make sure it was safe too (WTF?) But do you know what they sent through without blinking their eyes? Play-Doh. Right. Because you really want to confiscate fruit punch ("Ha HA! I've got you now! The world is safe once again!") instead of something that basically looks like colored plasticine. Pull your head out of your asses, nimrods! I was SO INCREDIBLY TEMPTED to just leave a large lump of the stuff (or several?) stuck to the undersides of armrests or under seats or in the lavs to be discovered after arriving in SFO (and once I was safely long gone) just to watch them quarantine the plane and call in the bomb squad. Morons!
Arg. At least they didn't mix the colors. That woulda really pushed me over the edge.
posted by mama pajama @ 7:52 PM
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Holy crap. That's just stupid.
Well how smart could they possibly be... it must be the crappiest job ever.
This made me laugh SO HARD.
And of course the whole thing is not to "protect" anyone or anything but to make people in the U.S. afraid and to get them used to the idea of being stopped and submitting to whatever nonsense that random authorities dream up.
- Liz
I read this before our trip so I knew to bring empty sippies and no liquid but tons of playdough on board. No problems getting through!
Although I did watch a Japanese businessman get busted for a tube of toothpaste. He kept trying to mime brushing his teeth because his English was not so good and he clearly thought they didn't know what Crest was for.
Sad...sad...
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