People Share The Strangest Items Found By Airport Security
Airport security has strict regulations and agents that aren’t afraid to utilize them. Even simple items can cause issues—think liquids, nail clippers, and key chains. Yet people have still attempted to bring odd items such as chainsaws and live crocodiles onto planes!
Those stories are proof that some rules should be common knowledge.
A Little Corny
Half of the suitcase contained ears of fresh corn and half frozen bratwurst. Family picnic in the south, apparently.
Stowaways
I found two small dogs.
I was waiting in the line at security behind a lady with two bags. She puts both bags down on the conveyor belt and opens one up to grab something. One of the dogs decided this was its cue to make itself known and popped its head out the bag.
The security line was halted and she was asked to open the bags revealing not just the first dog but another one. I really have no idea what was going through her head.
Dorm Room In A Bag
When I worked at a small regional airport, Southwest Airlines was running a promotion — $39.00 from Baltimore to Washington.
Anyway, I got called over for a suspicious bag. I still remember it: red and black check plaid with leather corners — old school luggage. It had no ID tag, so we decided to open it to see if anything in it could be used to get an ID. Well, I put on some latex gloves and proceeded to open the bag.
About 6 cockroaches ran out. Two of them went up my arm.
As I continued to open the bag, I discovered a small electric hot plate, a beat up sauce pot, and like two pounds of used coffee grounds sprinkled over everything. Plus about 50 more cockroaches. Real road life starter kit. Pretty odd stuff.
Plane Saw
My parents own a small agriculture business in Peru and travel there multiple times per year carrying different types of equipment in their luggage.
One time they went and my sister went a week after them. My parents wanted her to carry around a chainsaw from Toronto to Peru.
Apparently she got through fine in Toronto apart from some weird looks, but once she got to Peru they started interrogating her and wanted her to pay a huge fine to bring the chainsaw through. It was only when she started crying that they felt bad and just let her go.