When: Dec. 11, 2011
A traveler’s confiscated gun unexpectedly fired, hartsfield-jackson international airport + Atlanta, and a pellet fragment grazed a police officer. Airport gun was loaded with snake shot, Richard Popkin charged with carrying a deadly weapon at a public gathering
When: Dec. 10, 2011
A 76-year-old man told police he forgot he was wearing a gun, elderly man ankle detroit airport, when he tried to go through a security checkpoint. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County International Airport, airport automated target recognition system
When: Dec. 3, 2011
A passenger headed to Belgium, newark liberty airport, tried to bring five inert hand grenades on the plane. surrendered her grenades to officials
When: November 2011
A pregnant teen ended up on the wrong flight after agents, norfolk international airport in Va., flagged her purse as a security risk. Teen + replica weapons have prohibited since 2002
When: Sept. 19, 2011
A Dallas hair stylist said she was “humiliated” after agents, hartsfield-jackson international airport in Atlanta, searched her hair for explosives. Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear and hair + isis brantley
When: Sept. 14, 2011
A 21-year-old man, Narita, Japan was arrested when agents airport LAX discovered his potato-skins bags weren’t carrying chips. Meth found in potato chip bags at airport
When: Dec. 28, 2010
A wheelchair-using woman – who previously had stripped down to her bra and panties at a security checkpoint, Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma city later was stopped for a more peculiar reason, tammy banovac unusual contour. Tammy banovac not allowed to board flight
When: Nov. 24, 2010
A young woman wore nothing but a trench coat and a two-piece bathing suit, lax + los angeles international airport to get through security quicker. Girl, you wearing a bikini. Come right through
When: Nov. 18, 2010
A passenger, lindbergh field + San Diego, protested the TSA’s full-body scanners and pat-down procedures by stripping down to his underwear. No charges for sam wolanyk
When: Nov. 13, 2010
A software engineer’s john tyner tsa encounter with the TSA went viral after he protested the way he was handled at a security checkpoint. john tyner threatened with civil suit
When: 2010 (first available)
A Colorado man invented undergarments that he claims protect passengers’ privacy (as well as block radiation) as they go through full-body scanners, airport body scanners. Tsa underwear + metallic panels
