TSA Agent Reveals the Strangest Things Travelers Tried to Sneak Through Security

""He said that the guitar case was a gift from someone else," Connor-Findley said of the incident. "He had no idea that it was in there, which is something that we hear.""

""Clearly, the officers are paying really good attention and yeah, I'm super proud of that," the agent added. "We are very well trained, we are really alert, and we care on top of [it] all.""

""It's just not something that you see," she told the New York Post of the incident. "You're going to take a double, triple look. You're like, 'Is this what I think it is?'""

TSA agents at Newark Liberty International Airport detect a variety of concealed contraband hidden inside luggage and personal items. Agents recovered a handgun concealed in a traveler's guitar case whose owner claimed ignorance. Security personnel also found a hand knife disguised as a comb, a stun gun shaped like a flashlight, and a knife hidden in a belt buckle. Officers uncovered a stash of throwing stars, an uncommon weapon find. A Montessori children's switch-board toy briefly resembled an improvised explosive device because its panel of switches and lights triggered alarm and caution.

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