Passengers flying these days are used to removed their laptops and shoes and placing them into those little plastic bins to get through security at the airport. But a new recommendation issued by the Transportation Security Agency last year intended to help speed up a passenger's wait time in line, is slowing becoming policy at many of the nation's busiest airports according to the Washington Post.
The recommendation isn't due to concern that people may hide explosives or other illicit types of material in food, but rather efficiency. According to security experts, food can actually end up triggering false positives on the X-Ray machines, and even look like the components to an explosive. That would make it more likely officials would have to flag a bag for a manual search.
Some aren't happy about the new policy, calling it dumb, while others joke that terrorists must be trying to make bombs out of chips.
Of all the TSA rules, the arbitrarily enforced ‘dig every snack out of your bags’ is the dumbest.
So according to some @TSA agents in Orlando, you will now be required to remove snacks/food from your carry on bags, since they do it in the idiot run EU because some terrorist is making bombs out of @Fritolay. True? @AskTSA
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