The American Transportation Security Administration is often accused of being little more than security theater. They exist to make the average everyday traveler feel safer about their flight. “Well, if they make me take my shoes off and throw away my water bottle, surely the terrorists won’t get through their iron defenses,” is more or less the agency’s raison d’être. Sometimes I’ll get to my destination and notice an xacto or Swiss army knife stuffed into a pocket of my backpack I haven’t opened in months that went completely missed by their scanners and fallible human eyeballs.
But once in a while the TSA proves its worth. The agency recently released a list of its top 10 finds of 2023, and folks, it’s a doozy. There are some things in here that I wouldn’t have imagined possible. And I certainly wouldn’t have thought the intelligent and well-adjusted American populace would even attempt to bring some of this through security. Click on to see what I’m talking about.
