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Top 10 Bizarre Items People Tried to Smuggle Through Security

Thursday, December 11, 2014 15:20

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With today’s tight airport security, it’s hard to imagine slipping a full-size bottle of shampoo past TSA officials, let alone snakes in bras or 1000 boxedspiders—as some of the epic smugglers below have tried. Here are ten bizarre examples.

10. 1000 spiders

A per shop owner from the United Kingdom was detained in Rio de Janeiro when security ran his bags through the X-Ray machine and noticed that, nestled next to his underwear and souvenirs for mom, he had 1,000 spiders boxed up. It’s suspected he was either bringing the spiders home to sell in his store or he had some involvement in medicinal poison extraction. But why smuggle them in?

9. A cocaine cast

In 2009, authorities in Spain arrested a man arriving at Barcelona’s airport from Chile after determining that the cast on his fractured left leg was made of cocaine.The 66-year-old suspect from Chile had an actual fracture of two bones below the knee, but the police suspect that he may have intentionally broke it, so that the cocaine cast could be applied. To determine whether the cast was real or not, the authorities applied a substance.

8. Make-Shift Explosive Science Project

It was a simple misunderstanding, but it still shut down the entire airport for hours until it was rectified. A geeky college student was flying out of Omaha, Nebraska, and decided he was doing to bring his make-shift, homemade science project along. When he was going through security, the X-ray monitors picked up on the project in his carry-on bag and TSA became alert of suspicious activity. Once TSA took a closer look, they surmised that what they saw looked suspiciously like an explosive device. Because the TSA agents are not authorized to go deeply into device that they believe could be a bomb, both FBI agents and a bomb squad were to examine. Kids, this should be a lesson to everyone.

7. A human head

If you worked at an airport, the last thing you’d want to find in someone’s luggage is a human head. But that’s exactly what baggage screeners in Florida discovered. A woman had brought back a human head with teeth, hair, and skin from Haiti in order to keep away evil spirits,which was in line with her Voodoo beliefs. She was charged with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation (apparently this is an actual offense), failure to declare the head, and transporting hazardous material. These charges were eventually reduced, and she was sentenced to two years probation and a fine.

6. A Chameleon in Girl’s Hair

A teenage girl almost managed to smuggle an incredible feat when she attempted to bring her pet chameleon along on her trip from from Dubai to Manchester… on her head. Unfortunately the two were discovered when fellow passengers started snapping photos of the girl. How did she get through security? I guess it’s not that hard to get passed security without them noticing something suspicious.

5. Monkeys in a man’s underwear

In 2002, when customs workers opened a man’s bag in Los Angeles after he returned from Thailand, a bird of paradise flew out. They ended up finding three more birds and 50 rare orchids in his suitcase. When officials asked him whether he had anything else illegal he was bringing into the country, the man said, “Yes, I’ve got monkeys in my pants.” He turned over the pair of young pygmy monkeys, which are an endangered species in the U.S., that he had been carrying inside his underwear, and they were taken to the Los Angeles Zoo. The man received a 57-day jail sentence.