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Agents found the nine-inch PVC pipe and two torch-style lighters in the man’s carry-on luggage. Inside the pipe was a half-smoked cigar.
Despite the ostensibly harmless nature of the item, the security agents made the man surrender it because it “could too easily be perceived by the flight crew and other passengers as a pipe bomb,” the agency said.
Replica weapons of any kind are prohibited by TSA rules.
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Probably rightfully confiscated - not to mention that torch lighters are also verboten.
Biggest issue for me, though, is the half smoked cigar.
