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The bizarre, expensive and odd items left behind at TSA gates

WASHINGTON (ABC7) —

It's Spring Break travel season and that means a surge of people coming to visit the District.

This year, TSA says the number of people flying is expected to be up 7 percent compared to last year.

As the security lines grow, so do the number of bins here inside Reagan National Airport's TSA "lost and found."

"I'm really surprised at the volume of items left behind here, it's usually not even as much at a larger airport as we get here," says TSA Officer Racheal Abraham

In the past month the TSA has collected dozens of laptops, tablets, smartphones, credit cards and hundreds of dollars in Metro Smart Trip Cards -- most of which sit unclaimed.