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Anthony Hazzard
February 20, 2024

Later in this email, find out some interesting items you are and are not allowed to take in your carry-on luggage.

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If youā€™re boarding an airplane, you know the drill by now. You canā€™t carry huge bottles of liquid through airport security. And you canā€™t carry serious weapons on the plane with you.

But the list of acceptable and unacceptable items is interesting.

The Transportation Security Administration keeps a list on its website of items allowed in your carry-on and checked luggage, including details where specific instructions are necessary.

ā€œIn practice itā€™s often the TSA agent in your security line who makes the call about a particular item,ā€ wrote Andrea Romano for Travel + Leisure.

For example, fresh meat and seafood must be ā€œcompletely frozenā€ at the time of your TSA screening.

Here are items that are allowed in your carry-on luggage, sometimes with restrictions (or up for the decision of individual airlines):

  • Antlers

  • Fresh eggs

  • Handcuffs

  • Live fish and live lobster (airline-by-airline decision)

  • Medical marijuana (if it meets certain conditions)

  • Microwave (airline-by-airline decision)

  • Night vision goggles

  • Rocks

  • Scissors (if less than 4 inches from the pivot point)

  • Shock collars

Here are some items not allowed in your carry-on:

  • Alcoholic drinks that are 140 proof+ (70%+ alcohol)

  • Bear spray

  • Billy clubs

  • Dynamite

  • Hand grenades

  • Honey

  • Magic 8 ball

  • Olive oil

  • Rocket launcher

  • Yogurt

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