A lady tried to deliver a 4-foot boa constrictor in a carry-on bag by means of a TSA checkpoint in Tampa International Airport final month, officers stated.
TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein stated {that a} lady claimed the snake, named Bartholomew, was her emotional assist animal, however after the airline was notified, it refused to let her have it on the airplane.
The TSA posted on Instagram that airways do not enable snakes in carry-on baggage, and just a few will enable them in checked baggage if the animal is packaged appropriately.
In November, a cat was present in a carry-on bag at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The cat belonged to “someone else” the traveler lived with, TSA stated.
The animal was unhurt and introduced house, officers stated.
Animals aren’t the one unusual discover TSA brokers have encountered. The company even created a listing of the ten strangest discoveries, which embrace a gun discovered inside a uncooked hen and fentanyl drugs in sweet wrappers.
The Transportation Department issued a ruling in 2020 that may now not enable individuals to deliver emotional assist animals onto airplanes. Service animals, which the DOT outlined as a canine skilled to assist an individual with a incapacity, are nonetheless allowed on planes.
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