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Jul 04, 2014
LEEDS, United Kingdom - Undoubtedly most airline passengers have experienced airport security controls and have been forced to leave behind small bottles of water, nail clippers or even cheese, just for being too creamy. On the other hand, less innocent objects have tried to pass the inspection and on occasion even succeeded. According to the travel search engine Jetcost, these are the ten strangest hand luggage items that have attempted to board a plane:
1. A turtle in a hamburger.
2. A weapon and ammunition in his sons stuffed toys.
3. Tadpoles inside the mouth.
4. Seven snakes and three turtles in his pants.
5. A corpse in a wheelchair pretending to be a passenger.
6. A crocodile in a briefcase.
7. A cranium and several human teeth in a suitcase.
8. A laser sword from Star Wars.
9. A pigmy monkey in the underwear.
10. A knife in a mayonnaise jar.
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He's probably more comfortable traveling that way. I'd fly in my underwear, too, if I could get away with it.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Seven snakes and three turtles in his pants.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I confess the knife in a mayonnaise jar is a bit of let-down after the first 9.
orleans
(34,073 posts)it was no big deal & it certainly didn't make a list of any kind
i was still allowed to fly but my daughter had serious doubts about my sandwich-making capabilities for the next day or so
undeterred
(34,658 posts)This is the best one.
Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The women - his widow and step-daughter - said they thought he was asleep. They were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death, police said. The pair, who are German nationals but live in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have been released on bail until 1 June. It is understood they took Mr Jarant to the airport in a taxi.
'Moving and breathing'
Asked to describe her late husband, who she called Willi, Gitta Jarant said: "[He was] the best man of the world - good man.
"I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years." Mr Jarant's step-daughter Anke Anusic added: "They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8604663.stm
lunatica
(53,410 posts)dead or alive.