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 News from Around the Americas | August 2006 
Banned Airport Items Auctioned on eBay
 AP
| | Items travellers have had to give up at the airport. |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - A man-sized artificial palm tree and a sausage grinder share space in a state government warehouse with piles of Swiss Army knives and chain saws.
These are just a few of the things travellers have had to give up at airport security checkpoints.
Pennsylvania turns a small profit by disposing of these castoff items, which it accepts from security contractors at 12 airports in five US states, by selling them to the highest bidders at online auction site eBay.
Most of the contraband merchandise is knives, nail clippers and cuticle scissors that were forbidden as carry-on items following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. But there's also frosting-encrusted wedding cake servers, sex toys and a couple of chain saws.
There's even a box full of blenders.
"There must be folks who like to mix up their own pina coladas when they get to Puerto Vallarta," said Ken Hess, head of the Pennsylvania General Services Department's surplus property programme. |
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