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HOW TO - Buy items confiscated at airports

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You can get scissors and knives BY THE POUND for as low as $10 or even 25 cents! What a great gift this holiday season! Here's a list of all the surplus property sales and auctions from state and local governments - this is where all the confiscated items from the airport end up - [via] Link.

Pictured here, fantastic spider sculptures made from TSA confiscated scissors!

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Posted by: Fred on December 3, 2007 at 3:25 AM

Neat but, you couldn't take those sculptures on a plane.

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Posted by: pt on December 3, 2007 at 3:32 AM

why would you want to bring a sculpture like that on carry one? if you did, you could check it in -

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Posted by: eric on December 3, 2007 at 6:40 AM

fellaz, if you look carefully at those sculptures you will see that they are made of scissors. Now read the summary again and enjoy that AHA! moment.

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Posted by: TL on December 4, 2007 at 1:47 PM

The state of Oregon sells it's surplus (and the surplus of several other states) on eBay under the name OregonTrail2000.

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