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DOH! - TSA takes Play-Doh from child at airport checkpoint
We live in a very scary world - a world where anything and everything could be a bomb. At least in the eyes of the folks manning the airport security checkpoint.
When young Josh and Nathan Pitney tried to take their Christmas gift of Play-Doh past the checkpoint., an overzealous agent confiscated it. Of course, as is often the case with the TSA, Play-Doh is not on the list of prohibited items, though agents can use "their own discretion".
Never mind that we taxpayers invested millions on explosive detection equipment, this agent was too damn lazy to test the compound, and decided it would be easier to annoy two young children. Running Play-Doh through the explosives detector would have taken under a minute.
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