What people tried to smuggle in airline luggage: Pipe bomb, marijuana in adult diaper, throwing knives...

A fully loaded firearm with 163 rounds of ammunition and Naruto throwing knives inside a carry-on were some of the most bizarre items TSA officials found in 2023.

Every year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the United States releases a list of the top ten best catches, which includes the most strange items they have seized during airport security checks.

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They started releasing the annual lists in 2016. The first list included a full-size prop corpse, a Hello Kitty pistol and a golden hand grenade.

Inlast year's list, marijuana hidden in an adult diaper was one of them. TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein told NBC News that they found it at a checkpoint scanner at LaGuardia Airport in New York after being alarmed about a woman's groin.

"The woman had stashed pot in her adult diaper in an effort to conceal the marijuana from TSA and from her traveling companion, her mom!" Farbstein said in a statement Tuesday. "She told officials that she didn't want her mother to find out that she was packing the pot."

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However, it wasn't the first time TSA caught illegal things in a diaper at LaGuardia. In December 2023, Farbstein shared on X that TSA captured a man carrying 17 bullets in a clean disposable diaper from Arkansas.

"We hate to break it to you here, but stuffing a firearm in your holiday bird for travel is just a waste of time," the TSA wrote on Instagram in 2022.

TSA press secretary R Carter Langston said, "The most bizarre item on the list for me would have to be the giant bullet." According to him, TSA found the 35mm projectile in a passenger's bag at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. "Even if it was inert, it's just the fear factor alone that it might bring to other passengers."

Here's a list of some other things that made the TSA best catches list for 2023:

• Naruto throwing knives: Boston Logan International Airport
• Four replica rockets: Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Alaska
• Improvised explosive device in a carbon dioxide cartridge (pipe bomb): Sacramento International Airport, California
• Fully loaded firearm with 163 rounds of ammunition: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
• Knife hidden inside a prosthetic foot:Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport,Alaska

(With inputs from agencies)