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No Scotch on the Plane
By Tom Shoop | Monday, December 18, 2006  |  03:45 PM

Thinking of bringing some traditional holiday treats home for the holidays? You might want to reconsider, warns the Transportation Security Administration. Seemingly innocuous items like eggnog and six-packs of beer now fall victim to restrictions on liquids aboard aircraft. "We don't like to disrupt traditions, but it's an unfortunate by-product of our responsibility," Doug Johnson, TSA spokesman at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas told Cox News Service. In what Johnson called a "heartbreaking story," one traveler had to give up a 100-year-old bottle of scotch.


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