Rejoice! I finally found someone more “Der” than Florida residents! Let us take a look at the Transportation Security Administration agents at McCarran International Airport – that is Las Vegas to those who have not had the pleasure of flying in or out of Las Vegas.

The AP is reporting that Rebecca Hains from the Boston area had the misfortune of flying out of McCarran and she apparently made the fatal mistake of trying to smuggle a cupcake on board the flight! However, our wonderful TSA agents are on the ball and quickly confiscated the offending sugary treat claiming that the frosting is enough like a gel and therefore it violates TSA restrictions. In other words, the cupcake could be an explosive.

"I just thought this was terrible logic," Hains said Friday.

Hains, a 35-year-old communications prof at Salem State University told TSA at McCarran that she was passed through just fine with not one, but two cupcakes, gifts from her students, at Logan Airport in Boston earlier in the week as she made her trek to Las Vegas. The TSA agent at McCarran was not impressed stating that obviously the agent at Logan airport was not doing his/her job. The TSA agent promptly took possession of the cupcake, not even allowing Ms. Hains to consume it before she passed through security.

“It’s not really about the cupcakes,” Hains stated, “I can get another cupcake. This is about an encroachment on civil liberties. We are building up a tolerance to these things that are being done in the name of security and in reality it is not keeping us safe at all.”

I have to agree with Ms. Haines, come on a cupcake!? One has to wonder if the TSA agent just had an attack of the munchies and thought that a cupcake would taste mighty good.