I can see where pipes would drive them nuts. My guy went nuts on soap and cheese. Pipes would have made his head explode!

A mezuzah I can see being an issue as well. My wife is Jewish raised and the first time I saw one I was confused too.

One trip that really stands out for me was about 15 years ago when I was government. My partner and I missed our flight out of DC and needed to rebook. He put his arm around me and said "Me and the Missus need new tickets". The next thing we knew, we were escorted to a locked room where they put our checked baggage in an MRI type of machine which eventually kicked our bags across a room against a mattress lined wall. Then while scanning our carryons, there was great concern. Radio calls brought more people. After about 20 minutes, another radio call was made. A very high level looking guy shows up and after about 5 more minutes, he opens a plastic bag, pulls out my partners G.I. Joe box (he collects them) and announces that "It's just the guy's dolly".

Seems they had immense issue with the fact that the G.I. Joe in question had a die cast rocket launcher with die cast rockets. They thought they were real.

Then they ran a patch over my briefcase handle and stuck it into a machine which the LED display showed RDX and PETN (we specialized in munitions). I won't elaborate on what followed.

The GOOD part of all of this is that on our way to the airport, we stopped in a Surplus store that was having a massive sale on AK-47 bayonets and expended, training hand grenades. We both had a basket full of both, intending to flip them on Ebay, but a long winded customer in front of us made us drop our intended purchases to try and make the flight (that we missed anyway). Had that not happened, I can only imagine the 7th circle of hell that we would have been in that night.

If that trip would have happened today, I think we both would be in a gulag somewhere. We were almost sent to one as it was.

That was actually one of my better flights during that time.