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Customs Agents Will Seize That Drug-Filled Dead Cat
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Billy Parker
Published Mar 2, 2009
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The TSA tends to get a bad rap and often ends up the recipient of frequent gripes, especially in the city whose airports lead to three-quarters of takeoff delays nationwide. Maybe it has something to do with the times when we hear that we're waiting in a line that winds down the escalator because they're confiscating cheese, yet having no trouble letting through a passenger with a Hezbollah flag featuring a man wielding an AK-47.
But maybe we should give some of the newer government agents a break more often after learning about some of the more off-the-wall items that custom agents are able to keep out of the potentially unfriendly skies. Today's News talked to TSA officials at local airports and discovered a pretty insane laundry list of what's been confiscated recently. It includes:
- Your standard guns, explosives and fireworks
- More 007-villain weapons such as nun-chucks, Chinese throwing stars and swords concealed inside canes
- Gas-powered chainsaw
- Drug-filled dead cat
- Suitcase "bursting with wriggling cockroaches"
- Frozen monkey head (so maybe they did miss a pygmy marmoset under a man's hat on a flight to Peru)
- Dead body in a wheelchair (it's expensive to ship a body back to the country!)
- 7-pounds of chocolate-coated heroin bars actually produced in a candy factory
Sounds like a Joe Rogan wet dream, right? Maybe we should keep an eye out for the old Fear Factor host the next time the TSA holds one of its auctions of confiscated items. And for visual fun, here's the gallery.
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