Yesterday I am flying out of Logan for a little vacation at the significant other's parents. I check a weapon case and proceed to the security check carrying an empty shotgun box that has pictures of shotguns on the box. As I am waiting a very concerned tsa guy comes up and asks " is that what I think it is"? Me being me I say " an empty box? It sure is!" He has a look of pure relief and says " you would be surprised how often people actually show up with the gun in the box". He leaves but it starts to attract a ton of notice from other TSA people. I put it through the x ray and as I pick it up a tsa woman grabs it says she has to tape it up. I tell her no worries it already is. She says no, we have to tape over the images on the box, they are "too frightening". I couldn't believe it. Being me I gave her the "you can't be serious" but she was. 3 8x10 sheets of notebook paper later she was happy and I was on my way with the much less frightening box.