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Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 07:44 AM

    Threat of Peanut Butter

    I hate flying now, it's such a hassle. Two weeks ago my family went to Disneyworld from the Philly area. When we returned, I had a few food items I had bought for our condo stay that I hated to waste. I put a small, plastic container of peanut butter in my carryon. When we got to the Orlando airport, a screener pulled my bag off the conveyer belt. He told me my bag was flagged. Reaching in, he pulled out the pb and said very gravely, "Ma'am, you are not allowed to fly with peanut butter" and threw it into a trash can.

    Can you please tell me how peanut butter presents a threat? (and my husband is a chemist and he assures me that it is not a gel)

    —Buetikofer Read Buetikofer's other letters

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