TSA: OK to bring your ice skates on planes

NEW YORK (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration displayed thousands of items today that were confiscated from carry-on bags over three months at New York's Kennedy Airport. As the chaotic holiday travel season approaches, the agency wanted to remind the public what carry-on items were no-no's.

The takeaway: knitting needles and ice skates are welcome on board, but not sparklers, nun chucks and fake chain saws.

Four tons of prohibited items are collected every year at Kennedy alone.

Toy weapons of any kind, including grenades, are out. So are real knives, handcuffs and bullets.

Some items can go into checked bags, but not carry-ons; the details are on an app and the TSA website.

"Say you've got a knife; this is something that you like to carry with you, as this person did," TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said, holding up the aforementioned knife at a press conference.

"We are going to spot that in the X-ray machine or it's going to set off one of the detectors, the body scanners, and you are going to be given a choice. You can either put that in your checked baggage, you can go back and put it in your car, throw it in your trunk, put it in your glove compartment, put it under your seat."