TSA Top 10 Catches

TSA’s Top 10 ‘Catches’ of 2025

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Bullets hidden in strawberry Nesquik and tinfoil, a shot gun concealed in a golf bag and, the classic – drugs tucked inside shoes – all made it onto the Transportation Security Administration’s recently released Top 10 list of best ‘catches’ for 2025.

Here’s the full list, in countdown order, along with airport where the offending items were found.

 10. Bullets and knives in aluminum foil, found at both Ohio’s Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)      

9. Firearm in a golf bag, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) 


 8. Bullets in Nesquik, Miami International Airport (MIA)

 

7. Knife in a car seat, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
     

 6. Pills in a shampoo bottle, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) 


 

5. Knife in a knee brace, Illinois’ Quad Cities International Airport (MLI) 

4. Drugs in shoes, Hawaii’s Kona International Airport (KOA)


      

3. Razor blades in clothes, Denver International Airport (DEN)
      

2. Turtles in pants and bra, Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Miami International Airport (MIA)


 

And the Number 1 item on TSA’s Top Ten list for 2025:    

Explosive replicas at Boise Airport (BOI)

Per the agency’s tradition, the TSA also made a video of the Top 10 catches for 2025.

TSA’s annual Top Ten list was started back in 2016, with the release of this entertaining video hosted by TSA’s corny but endearing social media specialist Bob Burns.

Here are TSA’s Top Ten Catches from 2024

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Sharp objects, firearms, ammunition and axes are just a few of the things you can’t take on airplanes in your carry-on bags or on your person.

For a list of other items, including cattle prods, saws and dynamite, consult the Transportation Security Administration’s “What Can I Bring? list.

The list is long. But there’s a common sense reason for most of the prohibited items.

Still, not everyone has common sense. Nor is everyone honest. As we learn from TSA’s annual Top Ten list of ‘catches’ which includes pot hidden in a jar of peanut butter, firearms hidden inside inside everything from a teapot to a stroller, plus live snakes in someone’s pants.

Below the video of TSA’s Best Catches for 2024, you’ll find the list from a few previous years, including our favorites from TSA’s original social media guru, Blogger Bob Burns. We still miss him and his weekly, very scary, report of the number of firearms found at airport checkpoints.