One man was stopped by airport security screeners in Birmingham, Alabama for additional screening because of concerns about his "bulky clothing," not to mention the $7,000 in cash he was carrying. Once they opened up his checked luggage they found a cell phone lashed with tape to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three other cell phones taped together, a box cutter, three large knives and several watches taped in a bundle.

Oh, and when he arrived in Chicago, they learned that he had checked his luggage on a flight to Washington's Dulles airport with a connection to Dubai and then Yemen, but didn't board the flight himself.