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Here are six of the craziest things people have carried:

1. A shaving cream can (with false bottom) full of marijuana

2. A walking cane that concealed a six-inch knife

3. A wooden mallet (considered to be a bludgeon)

4. A training land mine

5. Batarangs

6. An inert rocket-propelled grenade

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