Strangest checkin luggage?

[TomVexille]

No, more like a floor cyclone fan. There is a mall at siem reap but it's a spare so packing it and hope for the best.

Pretty sure he also packed a blender once... I left that behind as well.

Ah yup. Got you now.

 

[Denali]

Packing empty scuba tanks (valves removed) and a rebreather got a page and escort to the Qantas bunkers to please explain.

 

[dajop]

Carry on but French cheese. My friend was living in Yap/Micronesia and he wanted this particular cheese. So from Sydney to Cairns to Guam to Palau to Yap, I had this stuff in a small esky, and packing ice every chance I had. I finally got to Yap and basically threw it at him and said never again.

Taking a close look at the carousel for any flight arriving in SIN from Australia and chances there are one or two eskies or cooler bags full of meat, cheese and/or small goods. We routinely bring back meat and cheese to Singapore from Australia, and many others do too (including SIN based cabin crew!). Although not really ideal for connecting flights, if you're on a non-stop very easy to keep things cool in the cargo hold ...

32in LCD TV

Depends on the route whether that is strange or not. Travel from SIN or KUL to DAC, and it very common to have all sorts of appliances and electronic gear coming out on the carousel. I'm told it is very expensive to buy branded products in Bangladesh, and even then there's no guarantee that what is being sold is genuine. It is very common to go shopping for these sorts of things in Singapore (Mustafa's) or KL.

 

[Denali]

Vanuatu to Sydney, we checked in an esky of beef. Don't know if they still do the export license for this.

 

[TomVexille]

Depends on the route whether that is strange or not. Travel from SIN or KUL to DAC, and it very common to have all sorts of appliances and electronic gear coming out on the carousel. I'm told it is very expensive to buy branded products in Bangladesh, and even then there's no guarantee that what is being sold is genuine. It is very common to go shopping for these sorts of things in Singapore (Mustafa's) or KL.

CHC-MEL

 

[gaz0303]

Loaves of sourdough from ARM to CHC. NZ customs pulled us up and said no one else has brought bread through before. Had to explain how good it was which created a few laughs. It helped us get out of trouble with the honey in the chai tea.

Tools of the trade - Cattle weigh scales including steel platform packed across 2 bicycle bags + 60l duffel bag of cattle tags to Se asia.

 

[JessicaTam]

Taking a close look at the carousel for any flight arriving in SIN from Australia and chances there are one or two eskies or cooler bags full of meat, cheese and/or small goods. We routinely bring back meat and cheese to Singapore from Australia, and many others do too (including SIN based cabin crew!). Although not really ideal for connecting flights, if you're on a non-stop very easy to keep things cool in the cargo hold ...



Depends on the route whether that is strange or not. Travel from SIN or KUL to DAC, and it very common to have all sorts of appliances and electronic gear coming out on the carousel. I'm told it is very expensive to buy branded products in Bangladesh, and even then there's no guarantee that what is being sold is genuine. It is very common to go shopping for these sorts of things in Singapore (Mustafa's) or KL.

Waiting at the carousel in SEZ saw all kinds of things. Most of a car from what I could tell. :shock: I recognised a front and rear bumper, four tyres and masses of other indeterminate packages.

 

[trooper]

Boxes of 500 cast and coated lead bullets. Decided since I couldn't get that particular projectile here I'd make my checked bags up to weight with those!
No drama at LAX check in.... got paged at AKL...taken down in the bowels of the airport to show and tell.... lol

Just the bullets... I know thats what a lot of people call ammo... but theyre wrong...:mrgreen:

 

[Denali]

In my carry on once I had my ankle weights, and that are basically a neoprene tube full of tiny lead shot. In my bag, they rolled up to look like a sex toy. The xray guy looked at the screen, and looked at me then looked at the screen. I peeked at the screen and saw what he saw and said "They are my scuba ankle weights, let me show you" . He said," no that's not necessarily", and I said "No really, really let show you". He said, "I really wish you wouldn't"

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Depends on the route whether that is strange or not. Travel from SIN or KUL to DAC, and it very common to have all sorts of appliances and electronic gear coming out on the carousel. I'm told it is very expensive to buy branded products in Bangladesh, and even then there's no guarantee that what is being sold is genuine. It is very common to go shopping for these sorts of things in Singapore (Mustafa's) or KL.

Indeed. Flew into Kathmandu in December and the baggage area looked more like a JB HiFi pickup dock with vast numbers of large flatscreen tv's coming out and on trolley's.

 

[Lizzi]

I took a bellydance balancing sword with me checked in in my case on domestic flights. First leg they didn't care, on the return journey the airline made me wait for half an hour at restricted baggage at each end as they decided it was a "weapon". (They are sword-shaped, but they are specially made to be so blunt you'd have an easier time using it as a cricket bat than a cutting implement...)

Also took a coffee machine as carryon (Aldi machines are good for the price and we don't have Aldi in Perth yet!) Only delay was a lot of people asking if it's a good machine.

 

[Happy Trails]

Checked in an injured sea eagle at KTA one time, having hand-carried it on the flight from Thevenard Is.
It was destined for some raptor rehab place down south.

 

[Caversham04]

Not as unusual as some on this thread, but I once checked in twelve pounds of marzipan for a flight from the UK to the Caribbean. The sister of a friend of mine was getting married and was going to use it for the wedding cake (apparently it's really difficult to get hold of marzipan in the Caribbean.....).

Only as my bag was disappearing down the belt at check-in did I realise that if my suitcase was opened by security, they'd find a large amount of a slightly pliable plastic-like substance and I also then remembered that they make Semtex smell of almonds (allegedly, anyway, if you believe several recent novels!). I was half expecting to hear my name on the tannoy at some point before boarding!

 

[Reggie]

We have been slowly moving to the UK over the past 3 years and we have used the maximum baggage allowance to move everything from TV's, crockery, pots, pans, vacuum cleaner, karcher, linen, towels, fans, heaters, Tupperware, Lego, hammer drill, tools like gympie, saws, etc etc. the strangest thing was actually having to by an electric fry pan at target to take to the UK because swmbo couldn't find them anywhere over there.

 

[Reggie]

Strangest I have seen is all pax on way to Xmas Island taking many foam boxes of meat and fruit veg over.

On the return the same boxes were filled with fish, it was so bad Virgin have had to restrict pax to 15kg of Wahoo.

 

[clazman]

Not really strange, but got a strange looks from a customs agent, random check of my case and I had the wife's case, with her clothes and makeup, since them I tag them different

 

[Denali]

Strangest I have seen is all pax on way to Xmas Island taking many foam boxes of meat and fruit veg over.
On the return the same boxes were filled with fish, it was so bad Virgin have had to restrict pax to 15kg of Wahoo.

Just before Christmas there was someone on Tiger, Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Facebook pages asking about taking cooked and still warm food as carry on.

I was reading them thinking, please dont. No baked ham can be that good that Nana needs to cart it across state lines

 

[bdl]

slightly OT but I once took a (new) toilet seat in my backup as carry on - the look on the security guard's face was priceless!

bdl

 

[ozimax]

Returning from PNG in 2009, what else could you buy for gifts to bring home but 75cm jungle knives, a stack of them. I declared them at customs at Cairns airport and the bloke didn't even bat an eyelid. He obviously was used to seeing them come in from POM.

 

[dmitri]

I was going through security a few weeks ago at Sydney international and there was bloke who was trying to get a cordless drill and stanley knife through security, it was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen at an airport, and he then argued the point that he needed them for work.