After 5000 nominations from 35 countries, the winners of the Stupid Security Awards are in. The complete list of winners is available here.

My favorite:

[At Heathrow airport, security flagged] a dual quarter pound cellophane wrapped cardboard package of loose leaf Chinese tea. Unfortunately, it was of a well known variety known as Gunpowder Tea…

Obviously this was of such importance, that, despite already forcing the passenger to check his hand bag as hold luggage, it was decided that the tea was allowed, but that the evil word “Gunpowder” was not. Consequently the security staff … confiscated the cardboard packaging!