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A thousand bottles of mosquito spray and hand sanitizer

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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Just unfamiliarity with the regulations. Seems kind of unbelievable, this day and age.

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The TSA says it allowed everything but the bug spray because it's a hazardous, flammable substance:

... The repellant was in 6.5oz containers (approx), and most bags contained more than the limit of 10 or 11 cans ranging from 2-128 cans over the limit. Most bags were large suitcase bags completely full of just bug spray. ...

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