The Transportation Security Administration’s Instagram page is a nightmarish mash-up of national security state propaganda and bad dad jokes. The fact that the TSA has captured more social media awards than it has terrorists says something about what the agency is actually good at.

Sometimes the account serves up a truly maddening cocktail of earnest obedience to nonsensical rules while simultaneously demonstrating just how silly those rules are. That’s what happened Wednesday when the TSA Instagram account posted a picture of six bullet-shaped whiskey stones agents had confiscated from an unlucky traveler at Idaho’s Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport: 

TSA Instagram, Screenshot by Eric Boehm

As the post explains, whiskey stones are steel objects that can be used instead of ice to chill drinks, and they’re very useful if you don’t like watered down whiskey. They are also, of course, not weapons—not even when shaped like bullets.

If you read through the awful puns and ignore the ridiculousness of the TSA admitting that it did not, in fact, make the skies any safer by stealing someone’s whiskey stones, the post eventually gets around to explaining why the whiskey stones were seized.

As you might expect, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.