Pot, guns and IEDs seized at Transportation Security Administration airport checkpoints
Are you more afraid of the TSA or your mother?
A traveler at LaGuardia Airport had good reason to be worried about both, so she did the, um, logical, thing and packed pot into an adult diaper she was wearing to avoid detection.
Instead of coasting through, she not only was caught at a security checkpoint, she made it onto the Transportation Security Administration’s Top 10 list of most unusual items detected at airports in 2023.
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"A TSA checkpoint scanner alarmed on a woman’s groin, resulting in a patdown," according to the TSA. "It turned out that the woman had stashed pot in her adult diaper in an effort to conceal the marijuana from TSA and from her traveling companion − her mom! She told officials that she didn’t want her mother to find out that she was packing the pot."
The TSA says individuals who are caught at security checkpoints with marijuana or other drugs are referred to airport police, who decide how the incident is resolved − "but you can bet that the mother won’t soon let her daughter off the hook," it said.
TSA's Top 10 unusual catches
The potty pot find was No. 2 on the TSA's list for 2023, which the agency posted in a two-minute video on its Twitter page.
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Here's the full list:
1. An inert IED found hidden inside an energy drink can at Tulsa International Airport
2. Marijuana inside an adult diaper at LaGuardia Airport
3. An IED CO2 cartridge found at Sacramento International Airport
4. A firearm loaded with 163 rounds of ammunition at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
5. A knife hidden inside a prosthetic at Anchorage Airport
6. A 35MM projectile found inside a bag at Charlotte Douglas International Airport
7. A bag of meth found inside a container of crab boil seasoning powder at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
8. A knife inside a loaf of bread at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
9. Replica rockets in checked luggage at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
10. Naruto throwing knives found in a carry-on bag at Boston Logan International Airport
What can you bring on an airplane?
The TSA reminds travelers to find information about items you can and cannot bring through a TSA security checkpoint at tsa.gov.
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: TSA carry on restrictions: Most unusual things seized in 2023
