More than 2 million travelers passed through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints every day last year. From that stream of travelers, TSA officers confiscated some pretty weird stuff.
The TSA published its annual , totaling the craziest and scariest things people tried to bring onto airplanes last year. This is what they found:
- 1 human skull. In April, officers at Fort Lauderdale (FLL) discovered fragments of a human skull at the bottom of clay pots. The passengers claimed they’d bought the pots and had no idea skull fragments were inside.
- More than 17 swords hidden inside walking canes
- 19-inch-long solid wood and metal mace
- 24 pounds of
- More than 28 ninja throwing stars
- 136 novelty/replica grenades discovered in people’s bags
- 562 stun guns, many concealed in cigarette packs and cell phones
- 1,468 loaded firearms discovered in carry-on bags鈥攁 record high since the administration’s formation in 2001. Firearms were intercepted at 205 airports, with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport topping the list with聽111 firearms.
You can follow the TSA on to see more items confsciated at airports across the United States.