5. In a Bag of Dirt
Most flyers like to bring items in their carry-on baggage that will keep them vaguely amused for a few hours: a tablet and earphones, a book, maybe a deck of cards…
Then there’s the man at Pasco Airport in Washington, who just wanted to bring aboard a garbage bag filled with dirt — well, a bag of dirt containing some knives.
During a checkpoint screening, security officials inspected the bag of dirt, confiscated the two knives and cleared the man to fly.
It’s not clear whether the man was aware that the knives were inside the plastic bag, that he faced charges or why he was travelling with the dirt in the first place. As the idiom goes, one man’s garbage is another man’s… garbage?
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