At Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) checkpoints nationwide, 2023 supplied extra proof that some air vacationers nonetheless do not have a clue what’s and is not allowed to go by way of airport screening.
Or no less than these people are okay with risking the implications. That is unlucky for these of us would welcome the large-scale rollout of self-service safety screening.
The 12 months started with officers at Tampa Worldwide Airport uncovering a four-foot-long boa constrictor within a passenger’s carry-on bag because it handed by way of the X-ray machine.
A cat was additionally discovered on the X-ray machine at Virginia’s Norfolk Worldwide Airport this 12 months.
In Boston, safety officers observed a suspicious-looking candle that turned out to be housing a passenger’s weed.
At Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, TSA officers made a surprising seizure after discovering 9mm rounds sewn into the liner of a traveler’s footwear.
“And when requested why, the person shortly jogged their reminiscence again to a purchase order made at a second-hand retailer. An harmless mistake maybe…however nonetheless knot begin to their journey plans,” TSA famous in an Instagram publish.
In one of many 2023’s weirdest checkpoint discoveries, a passenger at Southwest Florida Worldwide Airport in Fort Myers was pulled apart after making an attempt to get by way of safety with an empty propane tank.
Cue the King of the Hill jokes.
It isn’t all that unusual for some vacationers to try to get to their vacation spot whereas concealing unlawful medication however TSA is commonly as much as the duty on the subject of making a bust.
Officers at Utah’s Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport found two peanut butter jars full of over a half pound of meth this previous spring.
Officers at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport not too long ago made a head-scratching discovery once they uncovered a knife hidden inside, of all issues, a loaf of bread.
Previous to that discovery, officers at Alaska’s Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport discovered a 3.5-inch knife hidden inside a passenger’s prosthetic foot.
If vacationers are uncertain of what they’ll and may’t deliver to the safety checkpoint, they’ll obtain the MyTSA cellular app or go to TSA’s “What Can I Carry?” web page to search out out what can and may’t fly.
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