Contraband Images by Taryn Simon

Pictured is cow dung toothpaste from India, one of the many contraband items Taryn Simon photographed over a five day stay inside JFK Airport. While items such as heroin and animal corpses are outright nefarious, others--like blocks of pork fat--are just strange.

http://tarynsimon.com/works_contraband.php -via Flavorwire

See also: 10 Weird Items People Tried to Smuggle

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Fachist U.S will not let you brush your teeth in cow dung ?

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My new exclamation shall be "plastic pitcher of salami!"

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Isn't it possible that some of these cats might not have been originally placed on the paper but were added later in the form of a 'doodle' by a bored reader or 2? Especially the last image in this article. The cat definitely looks like it wasn't done by the original artist.

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Did you ever imagine that you’d see a “top ten” list like this?

No, and I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of it first.

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