[WILT] Where confiscated items go

Apparently, when you forget to take a corkscrew out of your luggage and the airport security guards take it away from you, they don’t just chuck it into the nearest bin. Though it varies from state to state, most often those contraband items are auctioned off or sold in storefronts. And according to this MSNBC article, you can get some serious deals on huge lots of knives and…okay, mostly it looks like you can buy tons and tons of knives.

But at least you have options. Check out this auction lot from the the Texas State Surplus ebay store:

In tangentially-related news, William Gibson shared earlier this story about cigarettes manufactured in Russia specifically to smuggle into Western European countries with high tobacco taxes.

Jin Ling, virtually unknown to the authorities three years ago, has grown so rapidly that law enforcement officials say it now rivals Marlboro as the top smuggled brand being seized in the European Union.