Frosting blows up in T-10, 9, 8...

A woman who recently flew back home from Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk. Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake on Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives. She said the agent told her the frosting was conforming to the jar it was inside. If the ingredients posed a biosecurity risk on an international flight, then TSA's actions would be perfectly understandable, but this was a cupcake on a domestic flight and it's not like cupcake frosting can be turned into an explosive. This is actually more about civil liberties than it would be a cupcake, and the public are just building up a resistance and tolerance to all these things TSA are doing in the name of security, when it's really theater.