Knife Hidden In Mayonnaise Seized Before Smuggled On Plane

Officials say that a man tried to smuggle a knife hidden in mayonnaise (not pictured) onto a flight at JFK International Airport on April 3.

NEW YORK -- Federal officials say security screeners at New York's Kennedy Airport caught a man trying to smuggle a knife onto a flight by plunging it into a full tub of mayonnaise.

A Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman says screeners stopped the man Tuesday as he arrived for a trip to Mexico City.

The hiding spot was poorly chosen. Jars of mayonnaise are also banned from carry-on luggage in the U.S.

The TSA considers mayo to be a liquid or gel. That means passengers can't bring it aboard unless the container holds less than 3.4 ounces.

TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says Port Authority Police confiscated both the knife and the mayonnaise. They still allowed the man to catch his plane.

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Comments

[frankc354]

07:50 AM on 04/08/2012

he was on his way to the ultimate iron chef wars !!

[texasphd]

02:30 AM on 04/08/2012

What else did he plunge into that tub of mayonnaise?

[marbiol]

02:50 AM on 04/05/2012

nothing about the hate crime at jfk?? where a tsa employee threw hot coffee on a tsa agent/airplane captain?? this was clearly a racially charged hate crime!!! why has it not ben covered here???

[truposer]

10:30 PM on 04/07/2012

I read multiple articles on the subject and I do not get where you are getting hate crime from the situation. Please elaborate or provide a link that supports your theory.

[Canefighter]

05:44 PM on 04/04/2012

He probably brought it because they probably charge a bunch for condiments.

[hello All]

08:39 PM on 04/03/2012

Let me guess, he was not a person of color and I am confident that he was not Middle Eastern, else he would have been in FBI custody.

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

04:41 AM on 04/04/2012

I don't think they are real big on mayo. Now hummus on flatbread...yummm.

[espressobeans]

07:23 PM on 04/03/2012

Why on earth did they let him on the plane? I wouldn't want to be on the same flight as someone who tried to smuggle a knife on board.

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

04:39 AM on 04/04/2012

For all we know it was a butter knife or one of those little plastic ones.

It's the mayo that is really scary -- that stuff is loaded with cholesterol!

[drralc]

07:31 AM on 04/08/2012

But the cholesterol only kills you slowly !

[jonpluc]

04:21 PM on 04/03/2012

Wait what? If your caught smuggling weapons onto a plane they just take them away from you and send you on your way? If it was C-4 would they have done the same?

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

04:40 AM on 04/04/2012

Does C-4 taste good on a salami sandwich?

[pcs5141]

11:45 PM on 04/07/2012

Its pretty close to processed cheese.

[GOODDOC1]

02:13 AM on 04/08/2012

The smuggler is arresrrested, too.

[UPD WAZU]

03:16 PM on 04/03/2012

Let me guess -- it was a butter knife for spreading said contraband mayo...

[wtf is this]

12:58 AM on 04/04/2012

Did they take his bread & cheese too?