🛩TSA Treasure Chest : What Happens To Your Confiscated Stuff? 💸

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Every year the TSA confiscates millions of pounds of pocketknives, sunscreen and snow globes from airport travelers. Where does it all go? ELT investigates. Plus, tips for sneaking your weed onboard, from a former TSA agent. Guests: Ex-TSO “Taylor”; TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein; surplus agents for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Patrick Knight and Mike Starr; press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of General Services Troy Thompson. Thanks to caller Kimberly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Kimberly, and we're at Newark Airport and we just had our snowglow
0:09.6	confiscated. Yeah, we're so pissed and we want to know who gets all of the confiscated stuff? Where does it go? And will we ever be able to even get our snowglove back?
0:20.0	Hey, thanks for coming into the studio.
0:25.0	Super happy to be here.
0:27.0	Tell me about the incident.
0:29.0	Okay, this is what happened.
0:31.0	My wife and I were traveling out to Arizona to visit my folks who live out there.
0:36.0	And in one of my carrions I had wrapped all of my parents Christmas presents.
0:39.0	And I'm known for my wrapping, you know, ribbons, beautifully tied, incredible different
0:45.5	colors tissue paper, this and that.
0:47.1	Not to brag.
0:48.1	Not to brag at all.
0:49.2	And so we're running our flight leaves in like 20 minutes.
0:54.0	So you're like late already at the airport.
0:56.0	That's right. The line is moving, so I'm like,
0:58.0	I think we're going to make it. I think we're going to make it.
0:59.0	And then one of my bags gets pulled aside.
1:03.2	That's the worst moment.
1:04.4	Yeah.
1:05.4	And they took my bag and they took out the presence.
1:09.3	They just started ripping and I said, no, no, no, no, you can't do that they were opening your presents yes
1:14.4	but not really like opening them like it's Christmas morning opening that more
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