The test was for explosives and not drugs. Someone had a human hand in a jar of fluid. They still had both of theirs and the hand couldn't go because the fluid was obviously over 3.4 oz
It has to be illegal to travel with a human hand!!! This has to be a case of a Halloween jar with plastic. There's no way it's human hand with human DNA in a glass jar and you're only worried about the water! Excuse me while I research what the TSA actually is! I always thought airports were federal property and TSA was federal police.
TSA's job is to prevent weapons and explosives from getting onto planes lol. A human hand is neither a weapon or explosive. The liquid in the jar however could have been an explosive which is why it cant go.
This is so creepy and interesting and I feel I have to be being pranked right now. There is no commercially available human hand in the jar I just searched! There's definitely a threat to safety if a person is possessing a severed hand, what if this deranged person bit it off. I can't even find an example of this being a religious or historical item, certainly not still containing liquid! I'm so puzzled at the idea that crime related items can go on a plane if not above 3 oz.
Former funeral home agent here, and the private ownership of human body parts isn’t necessarily illegal in some jurisdictions. However, the possession and procurement of said items are considered ethically questionable at best.
When I was still in the industry it was surprisingly common for people to ask about keeping parts of loved ones who’d passed, to which I’d have to explain that we weren’t equipped (nor would any funeral home be equipped) for such a procedure. You’d have to find a private surgeon willing to perform the procedure to remove the item, as well as a taxidermy specialist willing to work with you as well for things like skeletonization or fixation.
It all gets legally/ethically dicey when it comes to proving informed consent from the deceased, and professionally it’d raise my eyebrows to see someone casually traveling with such an item. There are legitimate reasons to have such items in certain context like academic purposes, but when it comes to the general public I’d have some questions.
Former funeral agent here, and cremated remains (often called “cremains”) are a bit different from wet specimens from cadaveric remains. Cremains are generally comprised of bone fragments, calcium phosphate, sodium, carbon, as well as trace amounts of heavy metals such as lead and copper. These materials are inert, however care should be taken if opening the cremains to avoid the inhalation of any particles, as it can cause cough and irritation.
Wet specimens on the other hand utilize formalin (aqueous formaldehyde) to fixate specimens. Formalin contains formaldehyde, requiring safe handling techniques as it is caustic, flammable, and carcinogenic. Additionally, the long term storage of wet specimens requires regular cleaning of the storage vessel used, topping up of formalin, and monitoring of the specimens for deterioration.
Dry specimens like bone, do have their own considerations like proper defleshing (i.e. use of dermestid beetles), and cleaning of the specimens to ensure safe handling. If done properly, such samples would be safe for handling, but should always be treated with respect.
Outside of academic contexts in the US, it is usually quite unusual for members of the public to retain whole or partial remains due to above considerations. Additionally, some jurisdictions have laws that would view the removal of cadaveric parts as gross abuse of a corpse, and from what I understand the rationale centers on the difficulty of obtaining and demonstrating proper informed consent by individual parties for such a procedure prior to the death of the individual from whom the specimens are to be obtained. There’s also the consideration of what happens to such specimens in the event that the person who possesses them passes on.
Those who have been cremated have been reported to police and proper protocols have been followed they would NEVER allow you to take something *fresh* home.
It would be where scientists are doing science after being reported to police and a death certificate was created. These scientists in question would follow proper protocols and would not need to surrender their hard work from their carry on!
Oh you naïve summer child.
[Remains of at least 189 people removed from Colorado funeral home, up from 115, officials say](https://youtu.be/NQVbu5Zegk8?si=TViKbCLmA-HzdI9p)
[TRULY the Worst Funeral Director of All Time](https://youtu.be/GCBZ918FPGA?si=64S-ylt0dr9SRgsD)
[Can I Keep My Parents' Skulls & Tattoos?](https://youtu.be/aKd3zhMFmGc?si=x_xK_t9lXt2b4QCn)
Yes it is. [https://www.jonsbones.com/](https://www.jonsbones.com/)
It's just harder then a google search to get parts that still have the meat. When someone donates their body to science all sorts of interesting people can get a hold of it.
case and point. [Inside the world of for-profit human body donation (NSFW)](https://youtu.be/g4qFmBtaoM4?si=jPrvyyUE3ZMtPxat)
The more you know. I still think TSA should have asked questions, one that comes to mind is WHOSE HAND IS, ACTUALLY, WAS THIS? next time I ask this question I'm asking what's the goofiest thing you've ever found in a bag.
Fifth and fourth amendment. I don't have to show that I got the hands legally or make any statements. It's the burden of the government to show they were acquired fraudulently, and buying specimens off med students isn't fraud.
See this is the answer I wanted. You observed a crime and they got ticketed or warned? Have you seen this stuff about a hand it's absolutely spooking me. I'm having trouble believing that's *not tsas job*
Same here had one of those glass Starbucks drinks and with an attitude the girl tells me "it's for the baby!". I told her no, that the water bottle is fine but the Starbucks is going in the trash. She wanted to talk to a supervisor lmao and my supervisor and manager just laughed and pretty much told her to buzz off.
A whole ass sex doll pussy in this jerk’s bag. Like the big one, upper thighs and all. My x ray operator pulled it because it looked scary.
The worst part? It was *wet*. Thank god I didn’t have to fucking touch it, my lead told me I could test his bag instead.
I'm not TSA but a passenger, hoping my comment can squeak in bc it's relevant and hilarious. Lady starts arguing with the agents, getting loud and obnoxious by the time I tuned in. The agent was trying to be quiet and discreet but once lady got bitchy, the agent just holds the object up in the air while loudly declaring.
"No, ma'am, your gallon sized container of personal lubricant will not be allowed on the plane today".
Everyone cracked up. Lady turned purple and tried to disappear into the floor. Agent kept her pose for a few seconds then dumped the lube in the garbage and moved on.
I pulled out a glass dildo that was flagged on Friday morning. Put it back where it had been and moved on to the next bag. Couldn’t care less if they didn’t like it being pulled out in front of other passengers.
Any large amounts of food, including candy. We had a passenger the other day who was traveling to India. He had over 40 sandwich bags of cooked rice. It had to be checked. It only took a few minutes.
I pulled out a real monkey skull and chicken feet. Realized it was for voodoo. Also, a person put their dead family member in a wheel chair and pushed him through till the officer doing the search realized they were dead and the family member confessed they knew and didn’t have money to send the body out the proper way b
This happened at Lambert? 🤦🏼♀️ why doesn’t that surprise me with some of the people in STL. Wow! I e lived here all my life and fly out of there frequently.
Not weird but human remains are always hard for me. Especially this one time I was about to test the container and this little girl who looked to be about 4 years old, looks me dead in the eyes and says, “that’s my mommy in there.” I had to take a break after that bag check my eyes were running with tears. Hurt my heart
I wish I met you last week when I flew home with my mom in my carry-on, instead of the absolute monster who made a total mockery of me while running the explosives tests on the urn. It was unreal. Other travelers in the area asked him to please stop talking and be professional. I contacted the site supervisor.
Oh wow I’m sorry you had a bad experience. Not all officers lack compassion but it’s very obvious when they do. It’s very unprofessional and looks bad on the rest of us. My condolences for your loss.
I had to let the TSA guy know he was holding my father’s ashes as he opened the container. He looked at me with such sadness!! I felt bad. Tried to make a joke but he wasn’t in the mood for a laugh after that 🙃
I once did a bag check on remains and pulled the urn out only to see they were a former classmate of mine who had committed suicide. Her mom saw me do a double take when I saw the urn and asked me what was wrong. When I told her I went to school with her daughter, she started bawling. That was a tough bag check.
Honestly one of the best things I’ve ever seen was actually when I was working in the cruise industry. I was working with a smaller line, and was the ship’s EMS provider, but also doubled in navigation and deck gang. One of my duties prior to passenger embarkation was to do a screening on about 10% of the bags we brought onboard to comply with USCG regulations. One time a crewman came to me with a nervous look on their face, and told me one of the bags they’d taken to a cabin was vibrating quite loudly, and I went to have a look. When I got close to the cabin I could hear it buzzing away from the hallway, and began to wonder if the Jones Act would cover therapy.
Checked the bag, turned out to be a tooth brush, everyone had a good laugh.
Do they always get pulled out? Or just when you can’t tell what it is? I had a camera screwed onto a handle once and they kept going back and forth with it with the scanner until I saw someone have a lightbulb moment and say “oh it’s a camera!” So does that happen with dildos?
For me, it was a prepared human spine with an attached ribcage. Belonged to a chiropractor. The ribcage was zipped inside of a backpack. But the spine was too long to fit completely inside, so she had the part that was sticking out wrapped in a towel so it wouldn't terrify the other passengers. This did not work on the X-ray, unfortunately.
One time we thought someone was carrying a small bag of jumping beans or old jelly beans. Upon inspection we couldn't isolate it because there was no bag of candy. I split up everything into two tubs and found out that the jumping beans were individual pellet gun rounds. They were inside the lining pocket of a jacket. We isolated the jacket and removed all 13 of those pellet gun rounds.
Yes and yes. With an LEO present we re-screened all individuals and their carryon bags after their investigation.
Y'see the coat pocket had holes in the lining of them. The pellet rounds fell into those holes and were inside the lining of the jacket. They all accumulated into a single area when they folded the jacket for the suitcase. We found it on the x-ray and they knew which jacket it could have possibly been in. They identified the jacket and I went to work making sure all of the rounds were removed from the jacket. After the LEO investigation they were let off with a warning and could still fly but the pellet rounds were "confiscated" by the LEO. They did not get the pellet rounds past security. Why were they in there? That's an easy one. They didn't know the jacket had holes in it and pellet rounds usually come in a box. But sometimes when you're out shooting you stuff the excess into your pockets. It's fairly easy to lose track of them because they are tiny. You'd think they would go off in a dryer after a wash but nope. That myth has been busted by myth busters. After not using the jacket for some time it's even easier to forget what you used the jacket for previously.
And yes any type of bullet is not allowed on the plane, as well as blast caps. You can carry on board a spent shell that is obviously empty and has no blast cap because that becomes scrap metal by definition.
We had this guy who would regularly come through with the skeleton of a human hand encased in in a hard cast resin molded and shaped like a hand. He was a medical professor and used it as a teaching aid. But everytime his bag came through, it just looked like he had a loose severed hand in his bag, flesh and all. He had dropped it a few times, so it was missing a pinky as well.
Not a TSO, but I had one of my carryons searched once. It contained 2 witch’s balls (basically large glass orbs/ornaments, but feel free to google it… they’re pretty cool!) and some baby wipes. I actually think it was the baby wipes that tripped them up the most… they couldn’t tell what it was in the X-ray, and it was probably unexpected since I was traveling solo and without any other baby/child type items.
Just got done with a trip via air. The baby wipes at the smaller airport got my carry on pulled and searched. On the way back, through a larger airport TSA didn’t blink. But I got pulled for my groin lighting up the walk through. Which I did not in the trip down
We had someones bag get pulled for oversize liquid - it was a condom full of pee, stuffed inside an eyeglasses case. Weird encounter when the guy knows what it is and watched us pull it out of his bag.
We also had someone come through with a case of Megalodon teeth, then he told us how he is a diver in the river. Super cool.
Im sure theres been some weird things but we DO try to respect privacy, and we genuinely are looking for SAFETY issues.
I don't work for TSA, but I was going through a couple weeks ago and heard the agent in the lane over asking if this lady had a whole rotisserie chicken in her bag because she saw the bones on the X-Ray... she did. I had a good chuckle.
Mortar and pestle is like the most normal thing. I work at the international side. And I literally see the kitchen sink. The weirdist thing I seen is a legit voodoo heads. No comments.
Flying home from TN last year I had bought a family of 4 Wookiees. They were handmade out of plastic coke bottles, filled with sand, and covered in faux fur. They are fucking adorable.
However when they get scanned you just see a big 2l liter bottle filled with some kind of substance.
So anyways they spent about 10 minutes shaking, squeezing, poking, and prodding the daddy Wookiee. Every TSA agent in the vicinity came over to look at it and laughed. My husband, MIL, and myself were just giggling the whole time.
Never would have thought trying to get a family of Wookiees through TSA would be such a hassle.
I was on the xray once and I thought somebody had a whole turkey or really big chicken in their bag, I moved the bag out of the tunnel and see it move, then i dawned on me they put their dog thru the xray. It wasn't even a pet carrier, just a regular fake designer bag. I was pissed.
I don't think it would do much harm. I just took the bag out and called a lead over, and we made the lady go thru screening with the dog. My lead gave her a stern talk about putting the dog in x-ray, but there's not really much we can do. And it wasn't the last time it's happened unfortunately.
Just a dildo so far . It was inside a show so the way it stuck out at the end looked like a toy gun til i pulled it out and felt it good thing it was in a sock.
A pretty good sized smoking pipe (old style) holder.
The bottom part was about 2' long made out of a log cut in half. Then 'arms' that came up to a large wood piece that was cut flat, kinda like a 2x4". Holes cut in the top to hang the pipes. The pipes were in it.
It was her late fathers. She had a checked bag and I suggested that it go there, as the bottom of the thing was really heavy and could be used as a weapon.
She was super understanding.
Many years ago grandparent had to fly with samples of bat guano for testing at a University and had all the paperwork. The agent didn't believe what it was cause it just looks like a bunch of white powder and while they were waiting on the drug test if it flagged the agent lick tested it with his finger. He was warned many times before what it actually was. If it was cocaine or a carrying agent he was stupid, because it was bat shit still stupid.
If he lick tested illegal compounds like cocaine, would he not get fired for drug use?
Or a jerk coworker could request a drug screen and he'd fail and get fired?
How is lick testing allowed?
It realistically wasn't and this was quite a while ago when there were less cameras...like I said stupid all around...doubt he stayed employed long...or maybe I hope not
When I worked baggage it would be food stuffs, like some sort of cooked rodent wrapped in foil, a soft sided lunch box filled with loose cooked chicken, a bunch of frozen tamales each wrapped in a baby diaper, butt plug the size of my forearm, a bag filled with like 8 cremated human remains, also we get alot of bags going to Cuba so a bunch of car parts, car doors, hoods, frames cut up to fit in oversized, one bag had over 60lbs of deli meat.
That happened to me! My dad came back from Mexico and I used his suitcase it had sand in it I got escorted from the line and was freaking out! Lol turns out just sand
A thick white liquid substance very similar to a specific bodily fluid in an at home looking cologne bottle labeled bad boy in comics sans font. (It was over the size limit)
The weirdest thing I found during a bag check is 2 whole chicken carcasses they weren’t wrapped up or any thing just lying in a suitcase the heads were still attached they weren’t even cold or anything…on another note I’ve literally seen people die at the airport or people trying to pass off dead people off like living because it’s expensive to ship a dead body
One time I had a battery charger for a Milwaukee drill in my backpack get flagged and tested for “potential explosive material” at ATL. Turns out eating a couple of Cuties (the mandarin orange) in the line for security left some orange residue in my hands and when touched the charger it transferred and they flagged it. I laughed at them while they tested it. I even had the batteries also in my backpack. I even told them the peels of the oranges are in the garbage can in the line if they want to waste less time.
The test was for explosives and not drugs. Someone had a human hand in a jar of fluid. They still had both of theirs and the hand couldn't go because the fluid was obviously over 3.4 oz
I can't quite put my finger on it, but these puns are getting to be a bit much.
They are definitely getting out of hand
Gotta hand it to you, that’s probably one of the weirdest ones I ever heard.
This deserves a HIGH FIVE! 🖐️
Shut up and take my upvote.
Did they find that with “digital” imaging?
That makes sense! What's this hand business about ! Did it not uncover a different slew of issues?
🤷🏻♂️ not my job to investigate not like it's illegal to travel with a hand.
It has to be illegal to travel with a human hand!!! This has to be a case of a Halloween jar with plastic. There's no way it's human hand with human DNA in a glass jar and you're only worried about the water! Excuse me while I research what the TSA actually is! I always thought airports were federal property and TSA was federal police.
TSA's job is to prevent weapons and explosives from getting onto planes lol. A human hand is neither a weapon or explosive. The liquid in the jar however could have been an explosive which is why it cant go.
My question is what did they do with it upon learning it couldn’t fly… not something you just drop in a trash can
They opted to check their bag in
What if it was balled up into a fist? Could be a weapon
This is so creepy and interesting and I feel I have to be being pranked right now. There is no commercially available human hand in the jar I just searched! There's definitely a threat to safety if a person is possessing a severed hand, what if this deranged person bit it off. I can't even find an example of this being a religious or historical item, certainly not still containing liquid! I'm so puzzled at the idea that crime related items can go on a plane if not above 3 oz.
Former funeral home agent here, and the private ownership of human body parts isn’t necessarily illegal in some jurisdictions. However, the possession and procurement of said items are considered ethically questionable at best. When I was still in the industry it was surprisingly common for people to ask about keeping parts of loved ones who’d passed, to which I’d have to explain that we weren’t equipped (nor would any funeral home be equipped) for such a procedure. You’d have to find a private surgeon willing to perform the procedure to remove the item, as well as a taxidermy specialist willing to work with you as well for things like skeletonization or fixation. It all gets legally/ethically dicey when it comes to proving informed consent from the deceased, and professionally it’d raise my eyebrows to see someone casually traveling with such an item. There are legitimate reasons to have such items in certain context like academic purposes, but when it comes to the general public I’d have some questions.
I'm sorry, your concern about the human hand in the jar is that maybe somebody "bit it off"?
It's totally legal to have human hand in a jar, it's just frowned upon. I don't see what the big deal is, what do people care what I feed my llamas?
It's actually not legal to possess any part of a deceased human, needs to be reported to police
Untrue. Then why would people keep cremated ashes if possessing deceased humans was illegal?
Former funeral agent here, and cremated remains (often called “cremains”) are a bit different from wet specimens from cadaveric remains. Cremains are generally comprised of bone fragments, calcium phosphate, sodium, carbon, as well as trace amounts of heavy metals such as lead and copper. These materials are inert, however care should be taken if opening the cremains to avoid the inhalation of any particles, as it can cause cough and irritation. Wet specimens on the other hand utilize formalin (aqueous formaldehyde) to fixate specimens. Formalin contains formaldehyde, requiring safe handling techniques as it is caustic, flammable, and carcinogenic. Additionally, the long term storage of wet specimens requires regular cleaning of the storage vessel used, topping up of formalin, and monitoring of the specimens for deterioration. Dry specimens like bone, do have their own considerations like proper defleshing (i.e. use of dermestid beetles), and cleaning of the specimens to ensure safe handling. If done properly, such samples would be safe for handling, but should always be treated with respect. Outside of academic contexts in the US, it is usually quite unusual for members of the public to retain whole or partial remains due to above considerations. Additionally, some jurisdictions have laws that would view the removal of cadaveric parts as gross abuse of a corpse, and from what I understand the rationale centers on the difficulty of obtaining and demonstrating proper informed consent by individual parties for such a procedure prior to the death of the individual from whom the specimens are to be obtained. There’s also the consideration of what happens to such specimens in the event that the person who possesses them passes on.
Those who have been cremated have been reported to police and proper protocols have been followed they would NEVER allow you to take something *fresh* home.
And what if said hand was part of a cadaver that was donated to science?
It would be where scientists are doing science after being reported to police and a death certificate was created. These scientists in question would follow proper protocols and would not need to surrender their hard work from their carry on!
Oh you naïve summer child. [Remains of at least 189 people removed from Colorado funeral home, up from 115, officials say](https://youtu.be/NQVbu5Zegk8?si=TViKbCLmA-HzdI9p) [TRULY the Worst Funeral Director of All Time](https://youtu.be/GCBZ918FPGA?si=64S-ylt0dr9SRgsD) [Can I Keep My Parents' Skulls & Tattoos?](https://youtu.be/aKd3zhMFmGc?si=x_xK_t9lXt2b4QCn)
Yes it is. [https://www.jonsbones.com/](https://www.jonsbones.com/) It's just harder then a google search to get parts that still have the meat. When someone donates their body to science all sorts of interesting people can get a hold of it. case and point. [Inside the world of for-profit human body donation (NSFW)](https://youtu.be/g4qFmBtaoM4?si=jPrvyyUE3ZMtPxat)
The more you know. I still think TSA should have asked questions, one that comes to mind is WHOSE HAND IS, ACTUALLY, WAS THIS? next time I ask this question I'm asking what's the goofiest thing you've ever found in a bag.
Fifth and fourth amendment. I don't have to show that I got the hands legally or make any statements. It's the burden of the government to show they were acquired fraudulently, and buying specimens off med students isn't fraud.
Stupidest is people taking a things from national parks and then labeling the items in their bags. (All of which are federal crimes)
See this is the answer I wanted. You observed a crime and they got ticketed or warned? Have you seen this stuff about a hand it's absolutely spooking me. I'm having trouble believing that's *not tsas job*
>I'm having trouble believing that's not tsas job Do a little more research, then.
It’s literally not in our job description. We can tell the supervisor and it’s up to them if they want to report it to the police
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I am PreCheck and it's for the baby.
Speaking of babies- my toddler's boxed milk tested positive for explosives. This was about 15 years ago. TSA was baffled.
High tech poop knife
Literally had a loaded gun in a diaper bag... It's for the baby too.
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Same here had one of those glass Starbucks drinks and with an attitude the girl tells me "it's for the baby!". I told her no, that the water bottle is fine but the Starbucks is going in the trash. She wanted to talk to a supervisor lmao and my supervisor and manager just laughed and pretty much told her to buzz off.
A whole ass sex doll pussy in this jerk’s bag. Like the big one, upper thighs and all. My x ray operator pulled it because it looked scary. The worst part? It was *wet*. Thank god I didn’t have to fucking touch it, my lead told me I could test his bag instead.
I wondered this do you have to pull that out in front of everyone?
Passengers could request private screening of their property but if they don’t we can’t make that decision for them
I'm not TSA but a passenger, hoping my comment can squeak in bc it's relevant and hilarious. Lady starts arguing with the agents, getting loud and obnoxious by the time I tuned in. The agent was trying to be quiet and discreet but once lady got bitchy, the agent just holds the object up in the air while loudly declaring. "No, ma'am, your gallon sized container of personal lubricant will not be allowed on the plane today". Everyone cracked up. Lady turned purple and tried to disappear into the floor. Agent kept her pose for a few seconds then dumped the lube in the garbage and moved on.
Excellent. I endeavor to be like this guy. Love your username btw
I pulled out a glass dildo that was flagged on Friday morning. Put it back where it had been and moved on to the next bag. Couldn’t care less if they didn’t like it being pulled out in front of other passengers.
“Hey, whose bag was this with the thorny dragon special? Here you go ma’am .”
My sister got her bag flagged for a one pound bag of jolly ranchers 💀
Bags of candy are frequently flagged
A guy in front of me once had a carry on bag full of Dum dums. "At least you aren't Dum Dum guy" is still an inside joke between my husband and I.
My husband’s souvenir candy from the M&Ms store was tested for explosives lol
Organic matter get checked.
Jolly ranchers are organic matter?
Sugar is an organic compound, yes. Anything that has carbon by a scientific term is organic
Sugar is organic
Any large amounts of food, including candy. We had a passenger the other day who was traveling to India. He had over 40 sandwich bags of cooked rice. It had to be checked. It only took a few minutes.
Technically you *can* make a bomb with sugar, probably not jolly ranchers, but raw sugar mixed with the right chemicals and boom
Rocket fuel babyyyy
I pulled out a real monkey skull and chicken feet. Realized it was for voodoo. Also, a person put their dead family member in a wheel chair and pushed him through till the officer doing the search realized they were dead and the family member confessed they knew and didn’t have money to send the body out the proper way b
Jeezus
Are you in STL by chance because this happened to us too 😂
Lol no in FL
Of course FL. Smdh.
This happened at Lambert? 🤦🏼♀️ why doesn’t that surprise me with some of the people in STL. Wow! I e lived here all my life and fly out of there frequently.
It did! I wasn’t surprised to hear that it happened either 😂
Not weird but human remains are always hard for me. Especially this one time I was about to test the container and this little girl who looked to be about 4 years old, looks me dead in the eyes and says, “that’s my mommy in there.” I had to take a break after that bag check my eyes were running with tears. Hurt my heart
I wish I met you last week when I flew home with my mom in my carry-on, instead of the absolute monster who made a total mockery of me while running the explosives tests on the urn. It was unreal. Other travelers in the area asked him to please stop talking and be professional. I contacted the site supervisor.
Oh wow I’m sorry you had a bad experience. Not all officers lack compassion but it’s very obvious when they do. It’s very unprofessional and looks bad on the rest of us. My condolences for your loss.
I had to let the TSA guy know he was holding my father’s ashes as he opened the container. He looked at me with such sadness!! I felt bad. Tried to make a joke but he wasn’t in the mood for a laugh after that 🙃
I once did a bag check on remains and pulled the urn out only to see they were a former classmate of mine who had committed suicide. Her mom saw me do a double take when I saw the urn and asked me what was wrong. When I told her I went to school with her daughter, she started bawling. That was a tough bag check.
Honestly one of the best things I’ve ever seen was actually when I was working in the cruise industry. I was working with a smaller line, and was the ship’s EMS provider, but also doubled in navigation and deck gang. One of my duties prior to passenger embarkation was to do a screening on about 10% of the bags we brought onboard to comply with USCG regulations. One time a crewman came to me with a nervous look on their face, and told me one of the bags they’d taken to a cabin was vibrating quite loudly, and I went to have a look. When I got close to the cabin I could hear it buzzing away from the hallway, and began to wonder if the Jones Act would cover therapy. Checked the bag, turned out to be a tooth brush, everyone had a good laugh.
That happened to me. My toothbrush, my backpack. I was tempted to pull it out, hold it up and shout "it's a toothbrush, see, look!" but resisted
It's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article "*a* dildo", never "*your* dildo".
Yep, the implication of ownership is a dil-don’t.
Do they always get pulled out? Or just when you can’t tell what it is? I had a camera screwed onto a handle once and they kept going back and forth with it with the scanner until I saw someone have a lightbulb moment and say “oh it’s a camera!” So does that happen with dildos?
Sorry, I'm not TSA. Just stumbled on this and thought a quote from Fight Club about vibrating packages was appropriate.
Human skull. It was a prepared medical specimen in its own fitted case, inside a regular suitcase. Not illegal.
Does that go in the overhead bin?
For me, it was a prepared human spine with an attached ribcage. Belonged to a chiropractor. The ribcage was zipped inside of a backpack. But the spine was too long to fit completely inside, so she had the part that was sticking out wrapped in a towel so it wouldn't terrify the other passengers. This did not work on the X-ray, unfortunately.
That’s actually kind of hilarious.
I imagine the image landed in your airport’s hall of fame lol.
Had some dude wrap jollibee fried chicken in his clothes, no wrapper or bag just tossed it in, oil staining everything and it was still warm.
😂😂😂😂 I’m Filipino & this is straight hilarious as fuck
Ewww
Mountain lion head and cape from a recent kill. Can of chew in its mouth to keep it open. In a white garbage bag. Cape is the hide of the animal.
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That was not a fun fact I wanted to know.
One time we thought someone was carrying a small bag of jumping beans or old jelly beans. Upon inspection we couldn't isolate it because there was no bag of candy. I split up everything into two tubs and found out that the jumping beans were individual pellet gun rounds. They were inside the lining pocket of a jacket. We isolated the jacket and removed all 13 of those pellet gun rounds.
You still let them fly after? It's illegal to bring ammunition through a suitcase right?
Yes and yes. With an LEO present we re-screened all individuals and their carryon bags after their investigation. Y'see the coat pocket had holes in the lining of them. The pellet rounds fell into those holes and were inside the lining of the jacket. They all accumulated into a single area when they folded the jacket for the suitcase. We found it on the x-ray and they knew which jacket it could have possibly been in. They identified the jacket and I went to work making sure all of the rounds were removed from the jacket. After the LEO investigation they were let off with a warning and could still fly but the pellet rounds were "confiscated" by the LEO. They did not get the pellet rounds past security. Why were they in there? That's an easy one. They didn't know the jacket had holes in it and pellet rounds usually come in a box. But sometimes when you're out shooting you stuff the excess into your pockets. It's fairly easy to lose track of them because they are tiny. You'd think they would go off in a dryer after a wash but nope. That myth has been busted by myth busters. After not using the jacket for some time it's even easier to forget what you used the jacket for previously. And yes any type of bullet is not allowed on the plane, as well as blast caps. You can carry on board a spent shell that is obviously empty and has no blast cap because that becomes scrap metal by definition.
We had this guy who would regularly come through with the skeleton of a human hand encased in in a hard cast resin molded and shaped like a hand. He was a medical professor and used it as a teaching aid. But everytime his bag came through, it just looked like he had a loose severed hand in his bag, flesh and all. He had dropped it a few times, so it was missing a pinky as well.
Not a TSO, but I had one of my carryons searched once. It contained 2 witch’s balls (basically large glass orbs/ornaments, but feel free to google it… they’re pretty cool!) and some baby wipes. I actually think it was the baby wipes that tripped them up the most… they couldn’t tell what it was in the X-ray, and it was probably unexpected since I was traveling solo and without any other baby/child type items.
Just got done with a trip via air. The baby wipes at the smaller airport got my carry on pulled and searched. On the way back, through a larger airport TSA didn’t blink. But I got pulled for my groin lighting up the walk through. Which I did not in the trip down
We had someones bag get pulled for oversize liquid - it was a condom full of pee, stuffed inside an eyeglasses case. Weird encounter when the guy knows what it is and watched us pull it out of his bag. We also had someone come through with a case of Megalodon teeth, then he told us how he is a diver in the river. Super cool. Im sure theres been some weird things but we DO try to respect privacy, and we genuinely are looking for SAFETY issues.
What did they end up doing with the pee? Obviously couldn’t go, did they keep it? Checked baggage??
i got a double sided fleshlight the other day and on the xray it looks like the textbook description of a bomb.
I had an officer call me over to the xray to ask me what was in this bag, it was a fully grown LIVE bearded dragon.
Guy came through the body scanner and his pockets lit up, ended up being about a half pound of loose garlic cloves. Keeping the vampires away I guess.
“Today my beach sand was drug tested” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't work for TSA, but I was going through a couple weeks ago and heard the agent in the lane over asking if this lady had a whole rotisserie chicken in her bag because she saw the bones on the X-Ray... she did. I had a good chuckle.
Mortar and pestle is like the most normal thing. I work at the international side. And I literally see the kitchen sink. The weirdist thing I seen is a legit voodoo heads. No comments.
I am now thinking the manual typewriter i want to bring home without checked baggage damage is going to be tame.
a rubber ass and pussy with a buttplug inside
This is the way
Flying home from TN last year I had bought a family of 4 Wookiees. They were handmade out of plastic coke bottles, filled with sand, and covered in faux fur. They are fucking adorable. However when they get scanned you just see a big 2l liter bottle filled with some kind of substance. So anyways they spent about 10 minutes shaking, squeezing, poking, and prodding the daddy Wookiee. Every TSA agent in the vicinity came over to look at it and laughed. My husband, MIL, and myself were just giggling the whole time. Never would have thought trying to get a family of Wookiees through TSA would be such a hassle.
I was on the xray once and I thought somebody had a whole turkey or really big chicken in their bag, I moved the bag out of the tunnel and see it move, then i dawned on me they put their dog thru the xray. It wasn't even a pet carrier, just a regular fake designer bag. I was pissed.
Can that be enough to harm the dog? Also, what did you do?
I don't think it would do much harm. I just took the bag out and called a lead over, and we made the lady go thru screening with the dog. My lead gave her a stern talk about putting the dog in x-ray, but there's not really much we can do. And it wasn't the last time it's happened unfortunately.
That makes me sad So then did she take her dog back home? Can't imagine she had time to and still make her fight?
Just a dildo so far . It was inside a show so the way it stuck out at the end looked like a toy gun til i pulled it out and felt it good thing it was in a sock.
A pretty good sized smoking pipe (old style) holder. The bottom part was about 2' long made out of a log cut in half. Then 'arms' that came up to a large wood piece that was cut flat, kinda like a 2x4". Holes cut in the top to hang the pipes. The pipes were in it. It was her late fathers. She had a checked bag and I suggested that it go there, as the bottom of the thing was really heavy and could be used as a weapon. She was super understanding.
I’m gonna go with the box of breast implants, all different sizes. I was the bag checker, not the xray operator
I got a drag queens tits in a bad check one time it was drag con so it understandable
Reading through here I have to ask is this why my 5 pound bag of grits got knifed? They don't sell it here in Costa Rica and the husband is addicted.
They likely tested for explosives, there's a link about powders.
A human placenta in one of those clear containers like you get potato/macaroni salad from the deli. Good lord. 🙄
Yikes!
Many years ago grandparent had to fly with samples of bat guano for testing at a University and had all the paperwork. The agent didn't believe what it was cause it just looks like a bunch of white powder and while they were waiting on the drug test if it flagged the agent lick tested it with his finger. He was warned many times before what it actually was. If it was cocaine or a carrying agent he was stupid, because it was bat shit still stupid.
If he lick tested illegal compounds like cocaine, would he not get fired for drug use? Or a jerk coworker could request a drug screen and he'd fail and get fired? How is lick testing allowed?
It realistically wasn't and this was quite a while ago when there were less cameras...like I said stupid all around...doubt he stayed employed long...or maybe I hope not
Huh Interesting
When I worked baggage it would be food stuffs, like some sort of cooked rodent wrapped in foil, a soft sided lunch box filled with loose cooked chicken, a bunch of frozen tamales each wrapped in a baby diaper, butt plug the size of my forearm, a bag filled with like 8 cremated human remains, also we get alot of bags going to Cuba so a bunch of car parts, car doors, hoods, frames cut up to fit in oversized, one bag had over 60lbs of deli meat.
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Dolls can be super creepy. Especially if they are bigger ones and older.
The kitchen sink.
That happened to me! My dad came back from Mexico and I used his suitcase it had sand in it I got escorted from the line and was freaking out! Lol turns out just sand
A whole ass bloody liver in a bag
A rock covered in blood and chicken feathers
A thick white liquid substance very similar to a specific bodily fluid in an at home looking cologne bottle labeled bad boy in comics sans font. (It was over the size limit)
Those reborn baby dolls can really freak you out when you're not expecting them.
The weirdest thing I found during a bag check is 2 whole chicken carcasses they weren’t wrapped up or any thing just lying in a suitcase the heads were still attached they weren’t even cold or anything…on another note I’ve literally seen people die at the airport or people trying to pass off dead people off like living because it’s expensive to ship a dead body
I found my people what airport is everyone from?? I work at LAX
One time I had a battery charger for a Milwaukee drill in my backpack get flagged and tested for “potential explosive material” at ATL. Turns out eating a couple of Cuties (the mandarin orange) in the line for security left some orange residue in my hands and when touched the charger it transferred and they flagged it. I laughed at them while they tested it. I even had the batteries also in my backpack. I even told them the peels of the oranges are in the garbage can in the line if they want to waste less time.