Wierdest thing you've taken as airline baggage?
 

I'll start: Boxster S muffler in checked baggage. Exhaust write-up tomorrow. :-)


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3 kilos of coke

:) ha, just kidding - guess I've watched too much "Locked Up Abroad"

Old Mercedes hubcap. Got pulled out of line because I had it stuffed in a rolling suitcase and it freaked them out. That wasn't the most embarrassing thing they pulled out of my luggage. This is a family site so my story stops at that :-)

swedish made penis enlarger (austin powers) - YouTube

Sideskirts. Intercontinental flight
Bag of weed. From colorado ;-)

Carry-on was a Nemo pinata from Tiajuanta. Checked was my pre-ban H&K combat shotgun.

Close BIGJake! It was a "gift" for my girlfriend at the time. It was at LAX so probably the 4th or 5th time that had happened that hour.

Prototype power supply. About the size and weight of a large car battery. Had ~200 feet of thermocouple wires hanging out the side. Duct tape wrapped around to create a makeshift handle. Obviously a carry-on, and obviously before 9-11.

Nothing but clothes, but get searched / invaded every time. I like to put a note saying "find anything in my underwear?" It's always moved. I know they saw it.

Caused quite a ruckus in providence the last time we flew from RI. I don't play well with TSA.

A replica pistol in my hand luggage. Aged 11. Long story, was not meant to be there, was moving back to the UK from the US and I had this starting pistol thing and my mother's plan was to ask security if there was any way we could take it back. And we all forgot we had it until the alarms went off at the x-ray machine (JFK IIRC).

This was the late 80s and the security guys basically just asked us to get rid of it and my mother found a helpful store assistant in the airport who got rid for us.

Relatively little fuss, we made our plane in plenty of time, nobody died.

Could you imagine the theatre and fuss if that happened now? Zero chance of making your plane, doubt you'd escape security that day and you'd probably be profiled and pulled out for questioning every time you went through security in the US til the end of time.

I do like going back to the US, but the Nazi attitude of the security staff and the bull**************** theatre of fake security at US airports has got to the point where it's getting bad enough I think twice about travelling in and out of the country!

A box full of food. Went to Colorado to a ski resort where you have to bend over backwards to get groceries.

my business teacher used to be general manager at shoe carnival so he would do the whole spin the wheel thing. "who ever has the most interesting item in their purse gets to spin the wheel and get a chance at free shoes" he worked in a very ummm sketch location so he has came across some crazy stuff haha.

I saw a lady trying to carry on a cello. Yes, a cello. She got it onboard and tried relentlessly to fit it into the overhead bin - which was never going to happen. Ultimately, she had to walk it back out and have it checked. Funny as ever to watch.

I managed to take a 40lb Stone Budda as carry on from the pre Tsang Yee river dam project (Spelling???) from designated flood villages.

I put it in my back pack and hauled it around the airport and on the plane as carry on.

I had enough sense not to put it in the overhead compartment and kept it on the floor.

Security was hell as they gave it the full explosive testing treatment and multiple security folks looked it and me over repeatedly.

In the end they begrudgingly let me through as it came up negative for anything harmful or useful for mass destruction, although my back may disagree as the backpack was not padded very well.

My brother showed up at a family reunion back in the 80s carrying a scythe. He'd bought it in an antique store for a relative who collected antique tools and hauled it on board with him.

Back in the mid 80’s I was carrying a briefcase full of expensive wine from Germany back to the US. Airport Security at the x-ray machine just shook their head and asked me to open the briefcase to make sure all the corks were in the bottles and sealed… That was the “Good O’l Days”.

In the mid 90's I carried a crypto computer that had the circuit boards removed and a lead weight installed to keep it's center of gravity. When they ran my bag through the X-ray it even looked like a bomb to me. At the time they called over a couple of security guys had me open my brief case and pull it out. I used a screw drive to open it up and show them the inside. The screwdriver alone would get me cavity search now. I gave up my travel job in 2003 got tired of the lines.

In the 80's on the way back from Atlanta, I checked a garment bag that had a nice 914 seat rail in it, plus my 3 piece suit, etc.

In 2005 on the way back from Brisbane, QLD, we checked a bag with a bottle of Bundaberg Rum in it that was wrapped as a gift. The wife had just thrown it in one of her bags. We didn't declare it on the airline supplied form. In LA, the customs guy asked 3 times if we had anything to declare and since I didn't know it was there, I kept saying no. He grinned and left us go.

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a propane camping stove (without the propane). my suitcase was 49.5 lbs and I did not want to pay a fee. went through TSA to new Zealand and back without a problem!

Both of these times were carried on, not checked.

Pre 911 - 2 full sized pocket knives - I was 8 years old, and they let me walk past the metal detectors. I forgot I had them in my pocket. I distinctly remember showing my dad on the plane, and him quickly telling me to put them away.

Post 911 - A 14 foot long string hammock from Guatemala. Enough strong cord to... well.. do a lot of stuff. Interestingly enough they made me take the cord wrapping it up off because "It could be used as a strangulation device"... as if I couldn't have used any one of the 1000 strings that made it up.

second time I got a full search including the typical crotch grope...

Carrying court reporting equipment into and out of various countries in W. Europe during the 80's used to get me special attention. The worst was in Athens when I was held at gun point while I explained what everything was and that I was not trying to smuggle equipment into the country. There's no mistaking the sound of an Uzi bolt falling into place.

When I was about 12 my folks took me on a trip to England. I was into bug collecting at the time, and I brought a jar with several live caterpillars back in my carry-on. This was the early 70's and no-one even looked in my bag.

Two Tyco HO race track sets in garmet bags, from Seattle to Panama City, FL.

Back in the early 80's, not long out of college, my buddies and I came to the conclusion that the coolest toy ever in the Sears Christmas Wishbook was the slot car set with so much track that you couldn't hardly follow it with your finger.

We promptly ordered one from Sears. It never arrived.

A few months later, I was working a job in Seattle and stumbled on a Toys 'R Us, which was a very new concept. I went in the store and found an entire isle of slot car tracks, cars and accessories.
I made a call back to a bud to get the green light and bought two of the biggest sets they had, along with a few additional cars, banked track etc.

I set it up in my hotel room and had a blast for the remainder of my trip.

The two boxes fit in my garmet bag but ripped the crap out of it my the time I got home. It was worth it! We had a blast with that track.

I still have it somewhere.

I was going through security pre-9/11 at Newark airport. There was this obesse woman in front of me. Her carry on consisted of a box of cake mix.
It set off the metal detector. The $5 an hour 20 year old rent-a-cops/rental car reps let her right through. I always think of this when people whinge about TSA or claim that the govt never does a better job at anything.

A year after 9/11 I was in Rome where I received an engraved folding knife with a 6" blade as prize for a bike race. I then traveled to Spain on widebody jet and then on a prop plane to the Balearics with that knife in my bag. Not one person stopped me or questioned it. I think one cop even complimented the craftsmanship.

My daughter just took two Thoroughbred horses from JFK to Amsterdam on a 747

My father use to take Western horse saddles from US to Spain as carry on. He had a friend there that had horses and it was much cheaper to have my father buy saddles in US and bring them. It would pay for my father's plane ticket

Pre-911 I use to carry a leatherman in my laptop bag carry on, for consulting gigs. I was flying every week, out on Monday back on Friday. Never did anyone ever question it

Did they get their own aisle?


they don't look to happy when they're in steerage class

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That's it
They used their miles to upgrade to 1st class.
Feel sorry for the person that has to clean(Muck) those lavatories

Ok, you win. Makes flying with my cats (the kind that meow) or a muffler chump change!

I was working for a millionare at the time...300k in a plastic bag from Ralphs on a private jet.

I bought my Porsche Roof Transport (RTS) system while on a trip (they don't turn up used very often) and flew it back with me. The baggage guys actually lost it, and then found it again in Rhode Island about a day later. Apparently, it is easy to find metal bars jammed into a bright yellow ski bag, wrapped with a lot of duct tape.

Not really weird, but recently (this past christmas) I forgot I had a metal six shooter cap gun in my carry one. It went over real well. You know it will be bad when every TSA dude around starts to converge on you.