The TSA have caught people trying to sneak some of the most unbelievable things onto
airplanes- how crazy?
How about a weapon, animal, or even human remains!
There is a long list of weapons that you are not allowed to bring onto an airplane.
Yet, people still try to sneak things past the TSA.
This rarely, if ever, works.
Case and point; one man tried to sneak a utility blade onto an airplane in his carry-on, but
was stopped by TSA agents.
Obviously the man knew the blade would not be allowed through security, so he tried to
conceal it in a Scooby-Doo greeting card.
He carved out a section in the card and hid the blade in the cartoon dog’s head.
Needless to say, the blade was confiscated and the man was brought in for questioning,
at which point, he missed his flight.
It is actually kind of unnerving how many blades the TSA has to confiscate on a weekly
basis.
Some people will go to unbelievable lengths to conceal their weapons.
In San Antonio, Texas the TSA had to search a carry-on bag that had just passed through
the x-ray machine.
What they were looking for was a tube of lipstick.
It was covered in rhinestones and looked pretty ordinary at first glance.
However, instead of lipstick inside of the tube, the TSA found a concealed knife.
This lipstick knife may have just been for self defense, but regardless, it was not allowed
onto the airplane.
Even worse than the lipstick knife, multiple people have tried to sneak entire swords onto
airplanes.
The crazy thing is that swords are actually not even all that uncommon for people to try
and sneak past the TSA.
Swords hidden inside canes seem to be one favorite way of trying to get the blades onto
planes.
One gentleman decided to take the cane weapon to a whole new level.
TSA agents were surprised when they came across a cane that was not just a sword, but had
been upgraded to include a stun gun as well.
But you wouldn’t believe what the most common hidden weapon TSA discovers is- unless you’re
a ninja.
Throwing stars seem to be weapons that are constantly trying to be snuck past the TSA.
This is surprising for multiple reasons.
The first: why are so many people carrying throwing stars?
Are they all ninjas?
And second: if they are ninjas, shouldn’t they be a little better at being sneaky?
Either way, TSA personnel have confiscated throwing stars of all shapes and sizes, and
have to constantly remind people that they cannot bring their throwing stars onto an
airplane.
People have even gone to great lengths to get their throwing stars past the TSA.
One person folded up his throwing star and hid it inside a smartphone case.
Just because the throwing star is inside the case, does not make it invisible to the scanners
as this passenger found out.
The TSA has come across throwing stars so frequently that they had to create an announcement
to remind fliers that: “all martial arts weapons are prohibited in carry-on bags.”
They even posted on their social media accounts at @AskTSA that if anyone had questions about
the proper way to pack and store throwing stars for a flight, to please reach out to
them directly.
If you thought throwing stars and hidden swords were crazy weapons to try and sneak past the
TSA in a carry-on, you’re not going to believe what this next person tried to do.
At Albany International Airport the TSA agents had to carefully pull a duffle bag off of
the conveyor belt and ask its owner to head over to the security office.
Inside of the bag was a chainsaw.
That’s right, the man packed up his chainsaw into a carry-on bag, and put it through the
security scanner as if this was a normal thing to fly with.
It is unclear why someone would need to fly with their chainsaw, but as long as there
is no fuel in the chainsaw, it is cleaned, and packed securely, chainsaws can fly in
checked luggage.
Just by using common sense, most objects that have the word “gun” in their name, are
probably not allowed in your carry-on luggage.
That includes spear guns.
This did not stop a man from wrapping his spear gun in packing tape and trying to bring
it on a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Since there are rarely any fish on planes, it was probably not necessary for the man
to try and sneak his spear gun onto the flight.
The TSA took the weapon and stored it with the rest of the confiscated objects collected
from passengers that day.
The TSA consistently reminds people that if you are unsure whether you can bring something
in your carry-on or not, you can always check the “Can I Bring My” section of the TSA.gov
website.
Just in case you’re wondering, spear guns are on the “prohibited” section of this
list.
Many people enjoy purchasing items at the duty free shop in airports because of the
lower fees and no taxes.
Oftentimes, travelers purchase fancy liquors and expensive boxes of cigars.
These goods can not be consumed or drunk on the plane, and if opened before going through
security, they will be confiscated.
This led to a woman at Beijing Capital International Airport to chug a whole bottle of very expensive
Rémy Martin XO Excellence Cognac when she was told she would have to throw it away by
security.
Obviously, she became extremely drunk and violently ill.
Another bizarre Cognac experience that the TSA had to deal with was in Detroit, Michigan.
A man had tried to bring an oversized bottle of Cognac in his carry-on bag.
However, it wasn’t the bottle, or even the liquor, that the TSA had found unnerving.
Instead, it was the dead animals inside of the bottle.
The bottle itself was well over the size allowed by the TSA, but upon further inspection security
found five dead sea horses that were on the endangered species list in it.
This is messed up to begin with, and it’s hard to think of a punishment to fit the crime.
Maybe the TSA should have had the man chug the entire preservative solution that the
sea horses were contained in until his insides became endangered… just an idea.
What ended up happening was the TSA pulled the man from line and called in Michigan wildlife
officials to confiscate the bottle and dead sea horses.
The man who was caught with the bottle was handed over to the proper authorities and
fined heavily for his actions.
Other people have even tried to sneak live animals through TSA checkpoints.
One person trying to reach Barbados had a hidden passenger contained within his computer
hard drive.
The traveler had taken a baby ball python, put it in a stocking, and stuffed it into
the hard drive.
As the carry-on went through the scanners, TSA agents noticed something that did not
look quite right.
They opened up the hard drive, rescued the snake, and handed it over to the United States
Fish and Wildlife Services, who made sure to keep it away from any more humans dumb
enough to try and smuggle it out of the country in a computer hard drive.
Pet fees can be expensive when flying.
However, this does not mean that you should try to sneak your pet onto a flight in your
carry-on, as one couple found out.
They were flying from Erie International Airport in Pennsylvania and decided it would be easier
to stuff their cat in a suitcase, than pay the pet fee and put it in a crate.
When the carry-on went through the scanner the TSA agents were surprised to see a cat
staring back at them.
This was not only illegal, but also grossly negligent of the owners.
So, the TSA contacted the Humane Society who took custody over the cat.
The couple was then charged with animal cruelty for their terrible decision and recklessness.
It is probably unnerving enough for the TSA to find live, or dead animals in carry-ons.
But this next discovery will chill you to your bones.
Many types of animal bones can pass through TSA checkpoints without a problem.
However, at Fort Lauderdale International Airport the TSA staff on duty came across
a real surprising set of bones.
Within a ceramic pot that a passenger had purchased was a human skull.
The traveler claimed they had no idea that there were fragments of a human skull within
the pot.
One of the most bizarre things found by the TSA in carry-on luggage came from an animal,
but was not bones.
It was something a little more… gross.
Alaska is known for its vast wilderness, and at Juneau International Airport the TSA agents
see a lot of carry-ons containing aspects of nature or wildlife from the region.
Unfortunately, one man tried to bring a little too much nature back with him on the plane.
The TSA agents found a bag full of what looked like nuggets of dirt.
On closer inspection they discovered that the large bag was filled with moose poop that
the passenger was taking home as an Alaskan souvenir.
The TSA has no regulations in place that forbids a passenger from traveling with animal feces,
however, there are policies in place against intense odors on airplanes.
Using this guidance the TSA confiscated the bag of moose poop and the passenger had to
go home without his bag full of moose souvenirs.
Sometimes you hear a story and just scratch your head wondering why people do the things
they do.
This next TSA discovery will definitely have you feeling this way.
A couple traveling back from a wedding received a unique thank you gift.
Apparently, the groom and bride thought it would be a good idea to have their party favors
be wedding-themed hand grenades.
There’s a lot wrong with this, but the biggest problem is that when two grenades, or any
explosive device shows up on a TSA monitor, they immediately have to bring in the bomb
squad to make sure the threat is safely dealt with.
Even though the grenades were fake, they still looked very real on the monitor, meaning that
this wedding-favor caused an evacuation of the area until the bomb squad could verify
that there was no threat.
Just as a rule of thumb, don’t travel with anything shaped like a grenade, or explosive,
in your carry-on.
You’re just going to cause everyone a lot of anxiety and ruin other peoples’ day.
And if dealing with fake hand grenades wasn’t enough, the TSA also has to deal with people
deciding to travel with inert explosives.
Funnily enough, the TSA won’t just take your word for it that the explosive is inert.
Instead, as one man found out, they have to call in the bomb squad to verify the explosive
is not dangerous, then they will confiscate it, and you’ll be in a lot of trouble.
This man put an inert mortar round in his carry-on while trying to pass through security.
The TSA followed protocol, and had to call in the bomb squad, which caused a commotion
and delays.
And this wasn’t even the first time someone did something this crazy.
At Hawaii’s Lihue Airport someone tried to bring an entire rocket launcher through
security.
It is because of situations like this that the TSA has dedicated entire social media
accounts and websites to inform people what they can and cannot bring in their carry-on
luggage.
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