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The Weirdest Things Travelers Asked the TSA This Year on Twitter


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Ashley Rossi
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    The TSA is usually a traveler's worst nightmare, but thanks to the

    @AskTSA

    Twitter account, the TSA it turns out can actually be funny. The customer-service Twitter account answers travelers most absurd questions (no, you cannot travel with liquid mercury) about what they can and cannot carry onto a plane. And while this article is all in good fun, some questions and responses are actually useful, especially when it comes to holiday travel—it prefers if you

    don't wrap your gifts

    , by the way—and traveling with food, liquids, and electronics.

  • The TSA, This Year, Was Asked All This



  • So, without further ado, here are some of the weirdest questions travelers asked the TSA this year:

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/939989733161295872

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/939860870611468288

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/939628720272347137

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/939555199139577857

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/938029690983473155

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/936580259373309952

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/936278833287827456

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/935621181989965824

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/935498259124146176

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/934789589440565248

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/934788434140565505

    https://twitter.com/AskTSA/status/934481675983179777