The Essentials

The Strangest and Most Dangerous Items TSA Confiscated

It’s time to reveal some of the stupid, and often downright crazy and dangerous items the TSA confiscated from passengers at security checkpoints last year.

Under the category of what were they thinking: how about…chainsaws? A few passengers tried to bring them as carry-on bags.

Or how about five gallon filled gas cans.

Of course there are the assorted hockey sticks and baseball bats, definite no no’s but these were all brought to security checkpoints in plain sight.

Then there were the items passengers tried to conceal: knives inside walking canes, a switchblade hidden inside a hair comb, a stun gun hidden inside a flashlight.