Small pets could be completely good air journey companions, supplied their homeowners comply with the principles. For instance, most airways require animals to stay in carriers all through the period of their flights — and none enable them to fly as carry-on cargo.
So, when a Transportation Safety Administration officer not too long ago noticed a cat inside one traveler's baggage because it handed by the safety scanner at New York's John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, the agent was "shocked," the TSA stated on Tuesday.
Lisa Farbstein, a public affairs officer for TSA, recounted the agent's uncommon discover in an anecdote posted to Twitter. It accompanied a photograph of a darkish suitcase that was not fully zipped shut. Peeking out from opening have been orange hairs that, Farbstein defined, belonged to the pet that was in the end found inside.
"A @TSA officer was shocked to seek out an orange cat inside a checked bag at @JFKairport after it went by the X-ray unit," Farbstein wrote, including that the traveler stated the cat "belonged to another person in his family."
Farbstein's tweet concluded with a pun to substantiate the cat was unhurt and at residence.
"On the brilliant facet, the cat's out of the bag and safely again residence," it stated.
A cat seen on X-ray machines is just not essentially the most outrageous discover that TSA officers have reported not too long ago. Earlier this month, an officer stationed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport flagged a carry-on bag on the safety station and, upon additional inspection, discovered a gun stashed inside a uncooked hen packed into the baggage.
Different unusual discoveries by TSA officers throughout the nation embody a chainsaw confiscated in New Orleans, a "meth burrito" confiscated in Houston, and a deodorant container stuffed with bullets confiscated in New Jersey.