Weirdest stuff stopped at customs

We've investigated the slew of weird and wacky things to pass through (or be confiscated by!) customs at the NYC-area airports and beyond. Take look at what we found ...

Were they planning to go shopping with these? Officers on Sunday stopped a passenger arriving from Seoul, Korea who was carrying two counterfeit $100,000 bills. The rare bills were originally produced in 1934 during the Great Depression to be circulated between the Federal Reserve Banks and never to the public.

The 1934 Woodrow Wilson Gold certificate is the largest denomination of U.S. currency printed. According to the Smithsonian Institute, the printing on the bill includes the phrase, "This is to certify that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold payable to bearer on demand as authorized by law."

See the other wacky things agents have confistacted recently ...

Published: 04/07/2009 12:20:38