“Imagine Stealing Someone's Souvenir Snow Globe & Thinking That You're The Good Guy.”

The Transportation Safety Administration has taken to boasting about mundane liquids its agents have confiscated at an airport security checkpoint.

After the fashion of a hapless angler mounting a sardine, Lisa Farbstein, a TSA spokesperson, posted a photograph of liquids that TSA officers have confiscated from travelers passing through security checkpoints at the Syracuse Airport.

The photo—which depicted soft-drinks, personal hygiene products, and even snow globes laid-out before a lectern—was part of a public service announcement regarding TSA regulations pertaining to the carriage of liquids in carry-on baggage.

"Display of oversized liquids, gels and aerosols that travelers had in their carry-on bags at the @SyracuseAirport @TSA Checkpoint in a 3-day span," Farbstein tweeted in a paroxysm of sanctimony. "The limit for liquids through a checkpoint is 3.4 oz."

The photograph and tweet drew thousands of responses, the vast majority of which mocked the TSA for enforcing such rules.

Among the comments volunteered by Americans grown weary of governmental overreach were gems the likes of:

• Imagine stealing someone's souvenir snow globe & thinking that you're the good guy.
• Thank you for keeping us safe from people who want to hydrate, apply lotion, or brush their teeth.
• Thank GOD. Someone needs to protect us all from snow globes and Capri Suns.
• It's amazing that our tax dollars are paying the TSA employees' salaries, and when they want to brag about a job well done, the best they can come up with is, 'We inconvenienced lots of people who just wanted to pack enough toothpaste for the whole family.
• The fact that they are all assembled there instead of in a bomb disposal unit tells you they know these are safe and the policy is theatre only.

The TSA maintains there’s a good reason for its 3.4 ounce rule. The administration asserts that restricting the amount of liquids passengers are permitted to carry aboard aircraft precludes destructive detonations conceivably resultant of liquid explosives.

FMI: www.tsa.gov