Items prohibited from carry-on baggage by the Transportation Security Administration, as of June 2010:

* Meat cleavers
* Spear guns
* Sabers
* Hatchets
* Cattle prods
* Swords
* Brass knuckles
* Nunchakus
* Throwing stars
* Blasting caps
* Dynamite
* Hand grenades

And “snow globes … even with documentation.” ;)

-SU's Beth Whitman, aka Wanderluster, makes the New York Times today--congrats to Beth.