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12 Weirdest Things Found In Luggage At Airport Security
If you think modern air travel is a nightmare, just ask airport security personnel. Their job is not an easy one, and they have to deal with many pet peeves as well as potentially dangerous scenarios on a daily basis.
There are passengers who try to bring on the plane with them strangest and dangerous things, only to have them confiscated by airport security control.
Here Are 12 Weirdest Things Found In Luggage At Airport Security.
1. Giant Scissors
Unlike knives, scissors are allowed in your carry-on luggage — as long as they are shorter than four inches from the fulcrum. These ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors found at Nashville International Airport didn’t make the cut.
2. Dead snakes
This happened in Atlanta International Airport in 2007. A man coming from South Korea checked in a suitcase with jars and bottles stuffed with deadly venomous snakes. We have no information as to what he was going to do with these dead creatures.
3. A Baby
One couple was busted at an airport in the United Arab Emirates when they tried to smuggle their young son (who did not have a visa) into the country by packing him inside a carry-on bag. Unsurprisingly, the jig was up when officials spotted the boy on X-ray.
4. Crocodiles
A passenger traveling to Bangkok from Bangladesh was apprehended after security found seven freshwater crocodiles hidden in suitcases. The small crocs…
