These are the most unusual TSA finds in 2022

By Dean Murray via SWNS

A gun in peanut butter and a hand grenade have made the top ten list of most unusual items found at U.S. security checkpoints in 2022.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff are tasked with ensuring the safety of travel, but what they find would make passengers' toes curl.

Lethal items include guns hidden inside places such as a raw chicken, a medical sling and a PlayStation.

While smuggling of illicit substances has seen fentanyl deposited in a Skittles packet and drugs secreted in hair scrunches.

The drug fentanyl was found in a packet of SKittles candy at Los Angeles Airport (LAX). (TSA via SWNS)

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Elsewhere, someone put a knife inside a laptop and another stuffed "soiled money" into a pair of crutches.

Luckily, a hand grenade found inside a carry-on bag at Milwaukee Mitchell Airport was discovered to be inert - but only after the Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad was called to the scene.

TSA said: "Shout out to our TSA officers nationwide for protecting the traveling public."

Top 10 most unusual items found by TSA:

1. Fentanyl inside a Skittles candy packet: LAX
2. Gun inside of raw chicken: FLL
3. Handgun in peanut butter: JFK
4. Gun in a sling: ROC
5. Knife inside a laptop: RIC
6. Drugs in hair scrunchies: BOI
7. Gun in a PlayStation: ATL
8. Cattle prod in a guitar case: IAD
9. Inert grenade: MKE
10. Money inside crutches: ELP