Throwing knives, replica rockets, a knife hidden in a loaf of bread, meth tucked inside a jar of crab boil spices, and a 35mm projectile.
These are just some of the weird and prohibited items found by the TSA in travelers’ carry-on bags last year.
But wait, there’s more.
A knife hidden in the shoe of a prosthetic, a fully loaded firearm with 166 bullets, an explosive cartridge, hash inside a diaper (!), and an inert explosive device inside of a soda can.
Each year TSA gathers up some of the more bizarre items the agency’s officers encounter at the checkpoints and puts them together in a Top 10 reel.
Take a look. Below the 2023 reel, we’ve added some highlight reels of TSA’s Top Ten Best TSA Catches from past years.
Here’s the TSA Top Catches video that started it all back in 2016. When the charming and goofy Blogger Bob was on duty.
Blogger Bob was back with a great reel of finds in 2017.
Here’s the 2019 edition of the TSA’s Top 10 Finds.
And here’s the reel of TSA’s Top Ten Catches from 2022.
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