Strangest Thing You Carried Through an Airport? How About 50lb of Peanuts?

M.D. Holloway · 01-17-2008, 03:01 PM

Flying to DFW in about 10 minutes - I have a 50lb bag of peanuts with me. Just to make it real intersting, I have been talking to it!!!

Superman · 01-17-2008, 03:43 PM

A friend of mine manufactures superabsorbent polymer and related products. Diapers, for example. But this stuff has a thousand uses, and my friend is the world's most effective salesman. Not kidding. This guy could close a sale of ice blocks to an eskimo village while he's talking his way out of a terrorist arrest by TSA, as you will see:

The polymer fiber is a white powder. Do you see where I'm going with this? He and his wife have one of those devices that seal things in vacuum-packed clear plastic bags. He was headed for Europe to discuss his products with folks there, and needed to take some product. One of his tricks is to ask for a glass of water, into which he places a teaspoon of this stuff. Two minutes into the conversation, he'll turn the glass upside down. At any rate, this guy went through airport security with a briefcase full of vacuum-packed bags of white powder. He talked his way through.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

A concrete tester. It wasn't until we read the manual that we discovered that it was a deadly weapon.

Tishabet · 01-17-2008, 04:10 PM

live lobsters, a case of booze, 30 lbs of frozen scrapple....

WI wide body · 01-17-2008, 04:53 PM

My seat companion on a trip back from Sydney was the drive unit for a parallel shear assembly. For some reason our brain trust couldn't figure out how to ship it, or maybe it was too late, but whatever they simply had Rosenbluth Travel (our contracted travel co.) buy it a ticket!

It really didn't say much but sure was a conversation starter with other humans on the flights!

This was long, long before 9/11.

slodave · slodave's Garage

50 rounds of ammo. Forgot they were in my jacket pocket, made it all the way to Italy before I realized I had them. I was carrying my jacket through the airports. Whoops!

tabs · 01-17-2008, 05:03 PM

50lbs of Kowalskis Kiebasas

dipso · 01-17-2008, 05:04 PM

5:45 AM 4 ounces of mushrooms, 2 in each pocket. Was going to a bachelor party in miami.
The fact that I was carrying a beer through checkout and check-on probably helped.

Noah930 · Noah930's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by slodave

50 rounds of ammo. Forgot they were in my jacket pocket, made it all the way to Italy before I realized I had them. I was carrying my jacket through the airports. Whoops!

So it's illegal to carry a firearm through security, but ammo is on the approved list?!

slodave · slodave's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noah930

So it's illegal to carry a firearm through security, but ammo is on the approved list?!

This was pre 9/11, but the jacket went through three x-ray machines.

arcsine · 01-17-2008, 06:25 PM

an eighth ounce of dope, two grams of coke and four tabs of acid

me and three buddies spent a very enjoyable week in Hawaii on college spring break one year long ago

Waikiki while tripping was an absolute blast

austin552 · austin552's Garage

Pre-911 a small sat dish and fireplace set. Its a long story. Security was very understanding at that time.

Hugh R · 01-17-2008, 07:38 PM

Foxboro Organic Vapor Analyzer, a flame ionization detector fueled by hydrogen gas. The pilot took one look and said flat out "No"

kycarguy 935 · 01-17-2008, 08:21 PM

April 2001 I checked a chainsaw in a motorcycle gear bag from SFO San Francisco to Kentucky. Why in the world would a guy bring a chainsaw on a plane? My dad passed away and he wanted me to have it, so I brought it back with me.

stuartj · 01-17-2008, 08:49 PM

A subaru exhaust system as carry on, international. Pre Sep 11 ofcourse.

Brian Cameron · 01-17-2008, 08:53 PM

Live boa constrictor

HardDrive · 01-17-2008, 10:22 PM

I flew with my AK47(MAK90 actually.....) a few years ago. TSA didn't bat an eye. Checked it through normally. I'm sure they see all kinds of hardware.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

I carried a genuine Key West Key Lime pie packed in freezer packs all the way from there to Long Beach back this past April. I was "threatened" by TSA with confiscation but it's just because they were insanely jealous. Made it here in perfect shape to enjoy the next night. Wife was pretty appreciative.

I once carried an electric guitar effects pedal in a carry-on bag and the old geezer working the x-ray machine had no idea what the hell it was. When they took it out of the bag to inspect it and asked me to explain the function, they still didn't understand. I finally just said it was used to help play music and they kind of just looked at it like it was an object from a UFO, but eventually gave it back and sent me on my merry way.

Danny_Ocean · 01-17-2008, 10:44 PM

A Haitian woman was arrested here recently for carrying a human head (not a skull, a head) on the plane. They didn't discover it until she arrived in Ft. Lauderdale from Haiti. They eventually dropped the charges because she obtained the head "legally" in her country and it was for religious purposes. I believe they confiscated it though.

The Haitians here would carry live chickens & goats on the plane if it were allowed...

TimT · 01-17-2008, 11:11 PM

Ounce of coke, about 1000 hits of liquid "a" in a visine bottle, and some Sinsemilla..

I flew in to Tel Aviv with this and survived.... of course it was 1979, but even then El AL had the most impressive airport security there is/was.... leaving Kennedy, going through security again at Heathrow, and the entering in Tel Aviv.

I worked on one of the airbase we built as part of the Camp David accords..... probably tmi by now lol