The TSA’s Instagram is surprisingly popular. Why? It’s a rundown of all the banned stuff they find every day, from knives to guns to wildlife to even stranger things.
Fun fact: both airport security and customs spend a lot more time looking for wildlife and food than drugs and weapons.
We’re not sure why one needs an endangered seahorse, especially given that all the possibilities we can think of won’t work after the seahorses have been marinated in cognac.
But how else will ye olde medieval peasants get to Minnesota for the harvest?!
To be clear: it isn’t that replica dynamite is illegal, it’s that there’s no way of knowing that the dynamite isn’t real until checking with explosives professionals.
Look, we too have had a hankering for a charcuterie board midway over Illinois. That’s why we put it together the night before and shrink wrap it.
The TSA just wants you to check with them and your airline about packing regulations. Otherwise they need to stop the line and investigate. And take pictures with Mr. Pinchy here.
Literally ever day on TSA Instagram is like a visit to the basement of your saddest uncle.
They’re not looking for your weed . . . but a bag that size is hard to miss.
It’s not that the TSA hates Klingons, it’s that they’re sticklers for canon and don’t want this mall ninja trash polluting the upcoming convention.
But why are they doing this? Well, many of the posts have a bit of a PSA quality about them, but we suspect the primary reason behind taking to Instagram is image sanitization. While the TSA’s social media presence is very popular, the TSA themselves are wildly unpopular. Does their content marketing strategy help with that unpopularity? Probably not. But it does help people understand what they do.
Next week, we’re talking about police content marketing strategies and their effectiveness.