17 of the Most Absurd Items People Tried to Bring on a Plane
‘A full-sized chainsaw’
A pre-9/11 world seems like an incredible utopia where you could walk through security without stripping down, light up a cigarette after boarding and fly the plane yourself. Okay, maybe it wasn’t exactly like that, but our current plane-boarding reality is so restrictive that it makes us yearn for seemingly simpler times. And while most of us adhere to today’s restrictions, some people are more than willing to buck the system to get their chainsaw through security.
Redditors have relayed the craziest things they’ve seen people try to bring on a plane, and we have questions for the guy with the box of raw chicken breasts.
![rabidstoat. ] 78d I went to South Africa in the early 1990s. Many people would buy these wooden giraffe carvings in various sizes, some up to three or four feet tall. My flight to London had at least half a dozen unrelated passengers having these tall and narrow bundles that were clearly giraffe carvings that they were taking home. ... Reply 49](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/3/1012813.jpg)
