TSA stops passenger with toilet paper roll gun at New York airport

empty toilet paper roll on white wall.Please Also See:

An airline passenger was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers in the US for having an unusual piece of carry-on luggage.

TSA workers at Newark Liberty International Airport stopped a man at airport security who they suspected had a firearm in his carry-on bag.

Upon closer inspection, the workers discovered the “firearm” was actually a toilet paper roll holder shaped like a gun, according to a release from TSA.

Image supplied by TSA

“TSA needed to get to the bottom of it, and when the bag was opened, the item that had triggered an alarm wasn’t an actual firearm at all. Instead, it was a realistic replica gun that had been configured into a toilet paper roller,” the release said, and if you think the toilet based puns stopped there you are sorely mistaken.

“Someone had a crappy day at one of the Transportation Security Administration checkpoints yesterday at Newark Liberty International Airport when he didn’t watch his “Pees and Qs” and instead of rolling through the security process, this cowboy got stopped up when he was found to have a most unusual prohibited item in his carry-on bag on Tuesday, October 29.

“Yes, this most unusual revolver was not designed to spin bullets. It was designed to spin toilet paper.”

The statement confirmed the TSA does not permit travellers to bring real or replica firearms through its checkpoints, but indicated it would have allowed this particular item in the passengers checked bag.

Latest News

  • Partner Content

My journey: Before becoming a travel agent I was… a palliative care nurse 

Australind Travel & Cruise, Travellers Choice member Saibra Twigg reveals her life as paediatric nurse then to palliative care before a career leap to travel agent. How did you become a palliative care nurse?  ST I went straight from school in nursing and initially specialised in paediatrics, working at Perth’s Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. […]

Partner Content

by Travel Weekly

Travel Weekly
  • Destinations
  • News

APT Launches 2025 Asia Adventures

APT has launched its Asia Adventures for 2025, including new luxury holidays in India, Sri Lanka and Japan. Five new tours lead guests to the highlights of India, including a seven-night cruise along the rarely travelled Lower Ganges aboard the Ganges Voyager. Further south, Sri Lanka’s greatest destinations are revealed on a new 15-day Land […]

  • Cruise
  • Luxury
  • News

Seabourn announces Western Kimberley Traditional Owners as Godparents of Seabourn Pursuit

Seabourn has named Western Kimberley Traditional Owners, the Wunambal Gaambera, as Godparents of the ultra-luxury purpose-built Seabourn Pursuit. It is the first cruise line to appoint Traditional Owners as godparents of a ship. Seabourn Pursuit embarks on its inaugural season in the Kimberley region this June. The naming ceremony will take place on Seabourn Pursuit’s […]