Weird stuff seized from you by airport security:

[hedgehog]

A 25' tape measure with metric and English units seized by security at Abu Dubai. Maybe they heard the tape measure had a blade in it?

[Xipe Totec]

1. If you're persistent, and the victim cooperates, you can cut them with the tape n/t

[Red State Rebel]

2. Personal Lubricant

Did he have to take it out of my purse (I thought I packed it!!) and set it on top of the X-Ray machine for everyone to see???

I think not......:blush:

[hedgehog]

3. How about a garden gnome? It wasn't actually seized, but

the Security guys at Frankfurt took me into a little side room and swabbed it for explosives. That was a close one; I bought it at a garden store and it could have had nitrites from fertilizer on it!

[MineralMan]

4. Serves you right. Garden gnomes are evil.

They are. :bounce:

[hedgehog]

6. And damn heavy, besides. That's why this guy was in my carryon and not my

packed luggage!

[Red State Rebel]

5. You know those Garden Gnomes are suspicious looking characters....

ya just can't be too careful!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Also not seized, but I had to show them my hot rollers one time and they swabbed them.

They looked suspicious on the xray.

[Echo In Light]

8. My sister has had various cosmetics/toothpaste confiscated

[MineralMan]

9. Do not pack sex toys in your carry-on luggage.

They will appear in public, I guarantee. It's not that they don't recognize them as harmless devices, but they will pull them out and wave them around for all to see, and you'll be standing right there while they do it. It's their idea of fun.

Never happened to me, but it did to a woman a couple of places ahead of me in line once. She had more than one, too. Boy, was her face red while the TSA guy took them out, one at a time and held them up for the rest of the TSA people to laugh at.

Put them in your checked luggage.

[hedgehog]

10. I think everyone should pack sex toys as a public service.

It'll keep the TSA folks alert.

[dysfunctional press]

11. back when i was a repo guy for the bank...

we grabbed a pick-up from a woman, and when we were cleaning it out of personal items, we found a big dildo.
you can guess what item was on the top of the open box of stuff when she came into the bank to pick up her things.

[Liquorice]

21. How awful! nt

[MercutioATC]

14. Reminds me of "Fight Club"

Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating?

Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but . . . every once in a while . . . it's a dildo. Of course, it's company policy never to imply ownership. In the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite article "a" dildo, never "your" dildo.

[abumbyanyothername]

20. If you check them,

how do you get through the flight?

[MineralMan]

22. Just enlist the aid of the friendly passenger sitting in the next

seat. The blankets are in the third overhead bin from the bulkhead.

[librechik]

12. a one inch long folding keychain penknife

hiding inside a hole in the lining of my wallet.
That was exhausting. Didn't even know I had it.

[MercutioATC]

13. A pack of 4 Q-Tips and a disposable razor.

Not seized, but they made me open my shaving kit and show them the contents after x-raying it.

They said that the Q-Tips and the razor were lying in such a way that they looked like a fork.

They were going to confiscate the "fork".

[VPStoltz]

15. Two small sealed containers of fruit salad.

My partner and I have a long day of traveling when we go home to visit family so we take a lunch to avoid having to pay airport prices.
SEA let us through with out lunches (which included those little Dole fruit cups.
Coming back through ORD, they were taken from us.
Peaches and grapefruit - a know combustible combination.

[Ilsa]

16. They took my 3 oz of peanut butter. I wasn't going to eat it on the plane.

I was going to eat it IN CASE we got diverted or something.

[MercutioATC]

19. Peanut butter is a binary agent.

If somebody got their chocolate in your peanut butter....

...well, you know what would happen.

[grahamhgreen]

17. U might start a weird stuff NOT seized thread; a freind of mine has accidentallly flown with pepper

spray half a dozen times!

[Greybnk48]

18. A small tub of margarine that I paid $5 or $6 for on Kauai.

It was unopened and I didn't want to just chuck it. One of the women who worked security (an Hawaiian) said she would take it home. It was funny. She asked me if I was a local, because I didn't want to waste good food (product).

[Bonobo]

23. A bag of very nice, handmade miso.

Guy said we couldn't take it in check in, but we could have it loaded and no, he said he wouldn't let me prove it was food by eating because, he explained, the detonation could occur and then I don't get a stomach ache for ours.


So if it was dangerous Bomb-paste, why would it be okay to be checked in? :wtf: