No, of course you wouldn’t want someone with a strangulation wire on their person sitting behind you. Furthermore, who carries a strangulation wire around with them, other than Bond villains? And finally, where does one even get a strangulation wire?

The above tweet was sent out this morning by TSA Public Affairs spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein, who regularly tweets the surprisingly insane things people try to bring on planes. The “strangulation wire,” otherwise known as a garrotte or an pocket saw, is “just one of those highly unusual prohibited items that show up at checkpoint,” Farbstein writes in an email. It was confiscated at Dulles International Airport.

I feel like I sound like a broken record saying this, but if it can be used to hurt someone else, you probably can’t bring it on an airplane. Just an FYI from your friendly, neighborhood DCist editor. As you were.

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