A thousand bottles of mosquito spray and hand sanitizer
By adamg on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 11:57pm
UPDATE: TSA responds.
Hokay: FORCV.com has updated its story on the Cape Verdeans blocked from taking stuff on a flight to their homeland. It wasn't Tylenol and Vitamin C that TSA blocked them from taking onboard, but "large quantities of mosquito repellent spray cans and alcohol-based hand sanitizer bottles in suitcases." And the reason TSA agents stopped people from bringing all these cans and bottles with them is because "TSA checkpoint personnel were alarmed by the large amount of those flammable products in several suitcases since they fall under the category of dangerous goods."
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So no ill intent
Just unfamiliarity with the regulations. Seems kind of unbelievable, this day and age.
TSA responds
The TSA says it allowed everything but the bug spray because it's a hazardous, flammable substance: