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TSA seizes shoes as replica guns

Transportation Security Adminstration seized these shoes from a traveler at LaGuardia Airport because the heels were replica guns. (Courtesy TSA via Twitter)
Transportation Security Adminstration seized these shoes from a traveler at LaGuardia Airport because the heels were replica guns. (Courtesy TSA via Twitter)

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NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI) -- The Transportation Security Administration said a pair of shoes seized at a New York airport had fake guns for heels.

The TSA posted a photo on its Twitter account of a pair of high-heeled shoes with fake revolvers as the heels, ABC News reported Monday.

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The TSA said the heels were seized from a woman traveling at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

"Also, what not to wear through a #LGA checkpoint," the tweet read.

The agency said the shoes were banned for being replica guns. They were voluntarily surrendered by the traveler, who was not arrested or fined.

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