What's the craziest thing you've ever snuck on a plane?

[debilorrah]

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me too

 

[Carolyn]

Years ago my son had back surgery and I flew up to be with him and then we flew back for him to spend a month's recovery. He was in the navy and his ship had gone out for a few weeks taking all his friends and all his pet sitters.

So I helped him smuggle his 3 ft boa on board the airline.
He was a pleasant travelling companion, slept all the way (much better than your hermit crab trip).

I was nearly 50 at the time and I still can't believe I did it. I mean my love of snakes is only great enough to keep me from killing a king snake so he can eat the others! But the things you'd do for your kids even exceeds what you'd do for your chickens!!!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

Well this is pretty boring but it was something I had to sneak through. When I visited the big island of Hawaii I collected some black sand from the black sand beach. This sand was not supposed to leave the island. There was supposed to be a curse of bad luck if you took the sand and I can't remember but I thinkit may have been law to.

Your luggage gets searched before leaving for the mainland so I hid it in a film roll canninster, put that inside a suvioner box and put that box inside something else. Me the way I am was so nervous you would think I was trafficing cocaine or something.

People on the island told me that every year 1000s of things that were taken from the islands were mailed back to the islands. I guess people really beleived the curse.

I made it through the search to get to the plane but boy if they had only looked at my face they would have known I was quilty of something, it showed.

 

[conny63malies]

My DH smuggeled a stuffed aligator head a few times across the atlantic and coming back from germany the last time he also had a machine gun shell/bullet in it. I only snuck a North west airlines fork off the plane.

 

[mjdtexan]

Remember when you could go into a terminal with a locked box and tell the ticket person that you had a weapon inside? I do. I used to do it all the time. I got immediate service, brisked through security, special attention while on the plane, I was always the first off the plane, whisked back through the terminal and met outside by an officer to collect my locked box with weapon in it. I was 18, and making a lot of trips to Dallas that way. Try that now.

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

Heck - I wasn't even trying to smuggle anything. The airport scanner guy and I went head to head because of an 8oz bottle of contact solution. I also had a 6 oz tube of Nexxus Humectress that he MADE us ship back via regular checked luggage. Needless to say - I was a little livid. Like my Humectress and contact lens solution would be something of terroristic level I could use to squirt in the face of a would be attacker in flight - that was out of Orlando International in May 2007.

 

[bluie]

I recently took a little trip to Richmond VA to visit a college with my daughter. I was planning a lesson with my crafts students to make little stuffed felt "monsters". I wanted to make some examples while on the plane, in the airport, etc. I did my research and found I could probably take needles, pins, scissors, and all on the plane. Sure enough, no problem. Right before we were to return home, we stopped at Sally Bell's Kitchen (anybody know it?) in Richmond for three of their famous boxed lunches. When we went through security in Richmond, guess what attracted the attention of the security screeners. They thought the Sally Bell box lunches were very suspicious and they put them through extra x ray screening or somthing. I had to step on the side and wait for my lunches. It was so funny to see this big burly security guy carrying this cute little bundle of box lunches tied up with a string and a bow.

 

[Picky Chicky]

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[ThePolishPrincess]

Fudge.

Really.

The man stopped us before we got onto the plane and asked if we had anything illegal in the suit-case. My mom and I looked at each other like, "huh?" We said no and the security guard opened it and found that our fudge from Disney (best fudge in thw world) was the problem. He explained that it's density or material consistancy set off the alarm and that we were only free to go if he could have a piece. (Har-har.) It was crazy, though! We were getting vicious death glares from people thinking they were going to miss their flights because of us...

 

[BroncoHollow]

LMAO! I thought I was the only one who smuggled Hermit Crabs!!

I was visiting a friend in the Marshall Islands on Kwajaline. One of the smaller islands was called Shell Island... it was nothing but shells and every shell had a hermit crab in it. Anyway I scooped up the most interesting shells and hid them in my carry on which was not searched back then.... They made the flight into Hawaii, laid over at the Waikiki Reef then flew back to CA.

Of note they survived the trip but once home I had them in a box temporally where they all crawled out... I was finding shells all over my property for a couple of years lol