The Craziest Items Confiscated By The Airport Security
Before going on a plane, passengers are expected to know and follow some rules regarding the content of their luggage. The information can be found online, and most people do follow these rules.
After many unfortunate events, including September 11, the FAA and TSA have strengthened the guidelines to make sure passengers are safe.
Some people have no idea they’re breaking the rules, and others intend smuggling weapons, drugs and strange dangerous items with them on the plane!
If you’re wondering what are those crazy items, we have got to say that we’ve never thought this could ever happen – just take a look at the alcohol bottle filled with seahorses!
Yes, and that’s just one of the many insane things found by TSA…
20. Is That a Bag of… Eels?
If you thought the airport security has seen a bunch of bizarre things, then you’re not wrong. But the crazy items confiscating are so baffling that TSA created an Instagram account and shared their strangest finds so far, including this bag of eels.
It happened at the Miami International Airport, and the passenger also smuggles more than 160 marine tropical fish and 22 invertebrates, all of them being sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
19. A Rather Strange Gas Mask
You can definitely bring a gas mask with you on a plane, but one that is decorated with bullets is not one of them.
Even though it has fake bullets, the TSA at Miami International Airport removed it because fake bullets and real bullets are so similar, that you don’t want to let this one go.
18. A Huge Wooden Mallet
This one was definitely odd. The TSA confiscated a huge wooden mallet that was found in a carry-on at the Burlington International Airport in Vermont back in 2014.
The item can be placed in the checked baggage, if it fits, but it cannot be carried in the hand luggage as it is considered a bludgeon. What was this person thinking – “I got to have me this mallet!”?
17. An Avalanche Charge
Back in 2014, the TSA confiscated this homemade explosive that was going to be used to create an avalanche. It was found in at Anchorage’s Tom Stevens International Airport in a carry-on and the TSA reported the item to the FBI.
The passenger was an oil worker and mountaineer, so maybe he wasn’t going to actually detonate the device in the plane, plus the airport police found no triggering mechanism. However, the man was arrested.