The Transportation Security Administration is at it again.
The TSA is warning passengers to expect more pat-downs and additional screening measures after reports terrorists may be surgically implanting bombs inside their bodies.
Government officials have warned domestic and international air carriers that terrorists are considering implanting ‘body bombs’ to evade airport security.
We constanly hear about people getting caught smuggling in drugs, animals and even weapons, but nothing compares to implanting bombs into the human body.
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From what we’ve found, people have gotten pretty creative lately. For example, the DEA of Miami, Florida recently found 288 cans of “Nestle’s Supligen” that carried liquid cocaine. We wonder what other people have tried to smuggled around the world!
Take a look of weird things people place in strange places.
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In 2010, a man in Mexico was arrested for trying to smuggle 18 monkeys attached to a girdle under his khakis.
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In 2010, Gitta Jarant and her daughter Anke Anusic were arrested at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport after trying to wheel her 91-year-old dead husband through security onto a flight to Berlin.
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In 2009, customs officials at Melbourne airport stopped a 23-year-old man after he got off a flight from Dubai. The officers searched his bags and allegedly found a vitamin container containing two bird eggs. The birds were wrapped in padded envelopes. He was arrested on the scene and could face 10 years in jail and a substantial fine if convicted.
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In 2006, Denver Authorities broke up a methamphetamine ring that shipped drugs in toys including an Elmo doll. Agents said 19 people were in custody, including the alleged leader of the northern Colorado drug ring and that they seized more than 45 pounds of high-quality methamphetamine. The seized drugs were valued at $864,000.
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In 2005, customs officials stopped a woman as she arrived in Melbourne on a flight from Singapore and found 51 live tropical fish allegedly hidden in a specially designed apron under her skirt.
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- The DEA Northeast Laboratory of New York recently received a submission of thirty one lollipops with loose wrappers, suspected to contain heroin.
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A 28-year-old South African man was caught trying to smuggle 70 live animals through airport customs in his luggage. The collection of animals included at least three different endangered species and eight inch-long Caiman crocodiles, small insect-eating cousins of the famous Nile crocodile.
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Custom officials in Norway arrested a man who had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos hidden under his clothing. He had rolled up the pythons in socks and put the geckos inside boxes and then taped them to his chest and legs. The animals had a total value of about $10,000.
