SHENYANG, CHINA — A man tried to sneak a lighter past airport security in China by ingeniously shoving it in his piehole. Spoiler alert, he was unsuccessful. <br />Taking lighters on airplanes is a no-no in China, but it shouldn't really be that big of deal finding a light with so many smokers in Asia. <br />Anyways according to Pear Video, the man had originally packed a lighter in his luggage, but remembered before going through security, so he took it out. <br />But rather than just throw it away like the millions of other people who forget about their lighters, he decided to Houdini the thing into his mouth. <br />Video footage from the Shenyang Taoxian International Airport, shows a female airport security officer giving the guy the wand. <br />The man probably would have gotten away with it if it weren't for the officer's pesky eyes which spotted the enormous bulges sticking out of both sides of his mouth. <br />At first he tried to very unconvincingly play it off by saying that he had just lost a tooth. <br />But in the end he couldn't keep his mouth shut and admitted to having a lighter in his mouth. He spit it out and handed it over to security. <br />He was yanked from his China Southern Airlines flight headed for Nanjing and given a $140 fine. <br />Lucky for the man, since it was his first offence, he wasn't given a flight-ban. Still can't be good for the old social credit score, though.
