TSA Finally Cracking Down on Snow Globes!

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It's been public information for a while that the TSA has flagged snow globes as a potential security threat, but apparently people aren't getting the message. So at LaGuardia airport, they've got these helpful signs reminding you that if you expect to get through security, you're going to have to trash that adorable little snow globe you bought for Grandma. (If you have the foresight, you can also bring it in your checked luggage.) The TSA says the tchotchkes are prohibited not because the administration hates precious souvenirs, but because "they contain an undetermined amount of liquid." Their stance on potentially lethal garden gnomes and Statue of Liberty paperweights remains unclear.

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By John Del Signore in News on July 6, 2010 4:22 PM

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Stuart

These signs have been up since before the Christmas holidays. I asked (in February) when they would take them down, and the TSA guy then said 'when the season for snow globes has passed'.

Nice to know that the TSA are still feeling Christmassy.

Ryan

I saw the snow globe message while doing the TSA rounds a few weeks ago. I remember thinking that it seemed like the most random thing ever.

In other news, I just took a train trip for the first time with Amtrak and was very surprised that bags virtually go unchecked. Seems like a huge flaw in the system.

Ryan

www.shellandthecity.com

dadoc

Great, you had to go and give them new ideas. They don't recognize huge flaws until someone points them out. Now we have to take our shoes off in Penn Station? Yuk!!!!

Potty Boy

What about snowcones?

leepresson

But if I can't take my snow globe with me everywhere, then the terriorists win!

LeLY

I wonder how close we are to people not being allowed on planes or having to be in some form of suspended animation to board.

Luggage?

No, you can't take luggage. Ha!

r1b2

Oy f**king vey.

camera_club

this warrants a post why?

Matt Joyce

Because we need to alert our elected representative to the domestic terrorist threat posed by the TSA. Call your senators, write them, beg the president to deploy the full might of the US military against this threat to the american way of life. Save america, send the marines in to liberate our airports from the clutches of tyranny.

give me snow globes or give me accela business class seats.

Guest

Because no one wants to go outside in this heat and track down a real, newsworthy story.

camera_club

'cause you found someone else's photo on flickr, I guess. must be hard being a journalist these days

Dan

v = (3/4)(pi)(r)^(3)

NathanCollins

v = (4/3) pi r^3

me thinks Dan is a terrorist trying to sneak in an extra 7/9ths of explosive snow globe liquid.

BillyShears

That's adorable, you think the TSA Rent-A-Cops can figure that out when their solution to potentially hazardous liquids is to toss them with reckless abandon into a plastic garbage can, letting them all possibly mix together.