What Kind of Pie is That?
In one of the stupidest things I’ve read this year, a woman was almost prevented from boarding a plane because of her apple pie. According to security, apple pies can be quite dangerous.
He told me he was keeping watch for pies with cream and custard fillings. Anything that could be construed as a “gel.” He’d already turned away a pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie filling, he confided, “has the same consistency as certain plastic explosives.”
A dozen Thanksgiving pies were confiscated last year at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. They were all donated to the airport’s USO lounge, which serves traveling soldiers.
Oh, so these pies are so dangerous that you are not allowed to bring them on the plane, but you can slice them up willy-nilly and serve them to soldiers? On what planet does that make sense?
It was also obvious that they weren’t going to cut open the pie to see if there was anything bad inside. They were just nitpicking without a lot of cause.
Again, we see here an example of our tax dollars at work. Dangerous pies are being kept from going on board, mainly because the TSA wants to show us that they are doing something to prevent terrorism, no matter how stupid it may be.
