2007-12-23 At airport screening pie in the sky may be overly optimistic

2007-12-23 \airport security http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/23/TRDLU1CNI.DTL At airport screening pie in the sky may be overly optimistic &ldquo;He told me he was keeping watch for pies with cream and custard fillings ... Pumpkin pie filling, he confided, "has the same consistency as certain plastic explosives."&rdquo;  "He told me he was keeping watch for pies with cream and custard fillings. Anything that could be construed as a 'gel.' Heâ€™d already turned away a pumpkin pie. .. Pumpkin pie filling, he confided, 'has the same consistency as certain plastic explosives."   
 * The security procedure as described does not allow for the existence of clever terrorists who, sensing a trap, choose to be deceptive and bake a gel-filled pie with an apple-pie-style crust. (Or, in other words, this is so mind-blowingly stupid it sounds like something that could only have been thought up by the Bush administration.)
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