Every day, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screens about 1.8 million passengers, along with all of their luggage.
Those searches produce a lot of interesting results. Every week, dozens of firearms are found, along with inert grenades, cleverly-concealed knives, exotic animals, throwing stars, and a surprising number of swords hidden in canes.
The TSA blog posts a weekly roundup of various and interesting prohibited items its agents discover.
From a cannonball covered in coral to a gun hidden in a stuffed animal, here are the 21 craziest things the TSA found in 2012.
Here is one of many sword canes
This sword cane was found at Kahului airport, on Maui.
And an old rocket launcher
The week of December 7, agents at Latrobe Airport, near Pittsburgh, found an expended AT-4 rocket launcher.
It had been packed in a passenger's checked bag.
Canes conceal knives, too
That same week, an eight-inch knife was found in a cane, at Baltimore Washington International Airport.
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