15 reasons why the TSA’s Instagram will leave you speechless

By: Kristen Altus

The Transportation Security Administration may be overcautious sometimes, but what they do keeps us safe, and their Instagram account goes to prove just that. The TSA posts pictures of items people try (but thankfully fail) to bring on planes, and the results leave us relieved that those items didn’t make it to departure.

1. Loaded guns

The TSA has confiscated about 1,100 guns in carry-on bags this year alone, and most of them were loaded!

2. Swiss Army phone case?

Careful, don’t cut your fingers while texting.

3. Grenade inside a stuffed penguin

Poor little guy…

4. 80 pounds of marijuana

Really? 80 pounds? And you thought no one would notice?

5. A hatchet

Sorry to break it to you, but there aren’t any trees you can chop 38,000 feet in the air.

6. Hollowed-out book with throwing knives

Maybe they’re training to be a ninja. Still not a good enough excuse.

7. Bullet and gun knife

You won’t get away with disguising a knife as a gun. Or a bullet. All of those things won’t make it through security.

8. Samurai sword

Hi-yah! Or so you thought.

9. Hollowed-out book with narcotics

You can’t study from a textbook with squares of pages missing.

10. Improvised Explosive Device training kit

Nope. Nope. All the nopes.

11. Meat cleaver

Sorry sir, but butchering meat is prohibited on this flight.

12. Ninja stars

Throwing things + moving transportation = NOT OK.

13. Batarangs

You’ll have to leave those behind, “Batman”.

14. Medieval weapon thing

 They still make those?

15. Serpent cane sword

The TSA reports that cane swords are discovered on a weekly basis. This one probably belonged to Lucius Malfoy.