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Texas men trade same Christmas card for decades

WHITEHOUSE, Texas

A Christmas card that crisscrossed the country as part of an old joke between two Texas men will rest this holiday for the first time in 61 years.

Acker Hanks mailed the card to his former neighbor Lee Kelley in 1950. Kelley, a prankster, mailed it back a year later.

The two continued sending the card back and forth, and when Kelley died, his widow mailed the tattered message for more than a decade. Last year, it returned to Hanks unread. He believes Kelley’s widow moved to a nursing home.

A list of dates and places in the worn card documents its journey. Hanks plans to frame it.

“I always looked forward to getting the card,” he told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. “I don’t think it’ll ever leave me now.”

Mass. woman says TSA confiscated frosted cupcake

PEABODY, Mass.

A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.

Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.

“I just thought this was terrible logic,” Hains said.

Hains, who lives in Peabody, just north of Boston, said the agent didn’t seem concerned that the cupcake actually could be explosive, just that it fit some bureaucratic definition about what was prohibited. She said he even offered to let her eat it away from the airport security area.

Associated Press