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Old Mar 18, 2008, 6:51 am
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Two live lobsters and some clams
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 6:55 am
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A 60lb statue - I know it was me
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:23 am
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Not that srange-but illogical,,,
I see folks coming back from Hawaii with cases of pinapples

And these are different from the Hawaiian pinapples I can buy at the store how?
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:28 am
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Originally Posted by bigguyinpasadena
Hawaiian pinapples I can buy at the store how?
Never seen those...perhaps "pineapples" (Ananas comosus)??
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:36 am
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On a flight from Bangkok to KL onboard AirAsia someone brought a durian inside the cabin.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:48 am
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I saw a man carry on a truck tire & rim on an Alaska Airline flight between Fairbanks and Anchorage.

Also a woman carried on a very large lampshade (it had it's own seat) on a United flight from SFO to SEA
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:51 am
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On a flight from Bangkok to KL onboard AirAsia someone brought a durian inside the cabin.
Oh my god! Did the oxygen mask fall down automatically?
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Originally Posted by caspritz78
Oh my god! Did the oxygen mask fall down automatically?
Almost.. some people close their nose with anything they can find.
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Originally Posted by 7free
On a flight from Bangkok to KL onboard AirAsia someone brought a durian inside the cabin.
Oh good lord. Please tell me it was still intact! (Still bad enough)
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 7:58 am
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My wife and I brought home probably 30# of various steaks and other cuts of beef from the Hilltop Restaurant's butcher shop to Detroit. It was a gift from her parents, packed in a foam cooler.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 8:05 am
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A goat... south Asian flight... a long time ago.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by bumpme
Two live lobsters and some clams
That might have been my aunt, who regularly brought lobster from boston back to germany in the early 80ies. Lobster where simply unaffordable in Germany at that time.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 8:38 am
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A ceiling fan. PBI-EWR. I guess the guy didn't know that there are Home Depot's in NJ.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 9:36 am
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The kitchen sink -- literally. About 10 years ago, an exhibitor going to or coming back from a plumbing trade show carried aboard a kitchen sink model. Somehow, the FAs found a place in the cabin for it after the psgr. tried mightily to jam it into an overhead bin.
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Old Mar 18, 2008, 9:46 am
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A six foot long spear on a flight from DXB-FRA.

I'll never know how that got passed security. I didn't notice it was there until he was leaving the plane with it.
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