Crime & Safety

Weed Nug-Filled Diaper At LaGuardia Makes #2 On TSA List

One traveler's adult diaper was extra dank.

Relax, it's just marijuana.
Relax, it's just marijuana. (TSA photo)

QUEENS, NY — An extra dank diaper in LaGuardia Airport just made a big number two.

The discovery of a woman's marijuana-filled adult diaper at LaGuardia earned a second place on the Transportation Security Administration's Top 10 list of unusual items found at airport security checkpoints in 2023.

The dirty diaper in October sparked a checkpoint scanner's alarm, prompting a patdown by a security agent likely on guard for poo, according to a tweet by a TSA spokesperson.

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But the woman's drawers were stuffed with a different kind of nugget.

"Turned out that the woman had pot concealed in a diaper she was wearing at @LGAairport," the spokesperson tweeted. "She was traveling with her mom and was attempting to hide it from her by putting it in a diaper. (Bad strategy.)"

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TSA agents let the woman toss the pot and get on her flight, the spokesperson tweeted. (No word on what kind of blunt talk she received from her mother.)

The find was memorable enough months later for TSA officials to include it on their "Top 10 Best Catches" list, ahead of a bag of meth found inside a jar of crab boil seasoning powder and Naruto throwing knives stowed in a carry-on.

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