LAX police officers allegedly forgot they hid a live stick of dynamite on plane during training exercise

The phone number for the Lost and Found department at Los Angeles International Airport is 646-LOST, in case you forget your Kindle in the terminal, leave your laptop charger plugged in or, you know, accidentally leave a stick of dynamite inside a display plane. LAX's own police officers did that very thing, somehow overlooking a live stick of dynamite (a LIVE STICK OF DYNAMITE) when they collected their things after a training exercise. The explosive stayed hidden in a display plane for four days before tarmac workers noticed the bright colors on the stick itself.

According to reports from the Associated Press, the officers checked the dynamite out of a TSA explosives storage container to use during a training drill for K9 officers and their dogs (and since they didn't find the dynamite, does that mean they failed?). It had been hidden underneath a compartment under the Spirit of Seventy Six plane, which is parked outside the airport's Flight Path Learning Center and Museum.

Although the dynamite was considered to be live, it could not have been set off without a detonator, an anonymous airport official told the AP. Sgt. Belinda Johnson, a spokesperson for the LAX Police, said "there was a certain amount of TNT" contained in the explosive but "denied" that the stick of dynamite that the anonymous airport official described as a stick of dynamite was actually a stick of dynamite.

Whatever it was, the airport police and the TSA are both investigating.