A man is sharing his funny story of how an early Christmas present from his grandmother almost got him arrested. Brett Gaffney, who is from Kansas, says that TSA agents stopped him over the gift, which his grandma had instructed him not to open until he landed in California.
The large briefcase set off one of the detectors at the airport over the Thanksgiving holiday. “I got stopped [by] the airport security, and you know what it was because of this briefcase my grandma gave me as an early Christmas gift, and she said don’t open it until you get to California,” he said in the video.
“I was like, ‘What is in the briefcase? It’s super heavy,’” he recalled asking his grandmother. “’Just wait till you get there,’” is what he said she replied. “I was like, ‘Grandma, I’m going to the airport, like I need to know.’”
“They asked me what was inside, and I said, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know,’” he recalled of the airport security. “They said, ‘What do you mean? You’re bringing a briefcase, and you don’t know what’s inside?’” Turns out, it ended up being a large vintage typewriter.
People flooded the comments with humor of the situation.
“I feel like the words ‘I don’t know, it’s a surprise’ shouldn’t be uttered to TSA, let alone in one sitting 🤣,” someone wrote.
“Getting arrested and added to the no fly list or keeping grandma’s word…,” someone else joked.