Food fight? Yes, that is a banana in my carry-on…

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…and yes, I’m happy to see you, TSA inspector.

At Dulles International Airport near Washington on Thursday morning, one traveler reported that screeners were also making passengers remove all food items from their carry-on luggage for inspection, and one passenger was told to peel her banana.

I got nothin’. You?

(hat tip to Chief Produce Correspondent Dr. Vino)
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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 9:10 pm and is filed under airport security, liquids, TSA. You can subscribe to the comments left on this individual post through this RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Food fight? Yes, that is a banana in my carry-on…”

  1. Andrew says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 8:47 am |

    “I got nothin’. You?”
    Only the obvious: when we have to unpeel our bananas, the terrorists have won.

  2. eyeno says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 12:14 pm |

    Hmmm….. perhaps the Monty Python sketch from all those years ago about armed combat with fruit wasn’t comedy but a dire prediction of things to come.

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