I’ve been warding off some strange urges for my entire life. I am regularly forced, for example, to quell the urge to angle-park in perpendicular parking spots. And I always want to pull fire alarm stations just to see what happens. But I have never had an urge to stuff a turtle down my pants and try to clear a TSA checkpoint.
Unfortunately, not
everyone enjoys my level of self-control.
Last week, a
Pennsylvania man wrapped a five-inch-long turtle in a small blue towel and
stuffed it down the front of his pants before trying to gain admittance to
Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. A body scanner
alerted TSA agents, and eventually, the man—whose name was not revealed for
good reason—was forced to fish the turtle from his groin.
The stoic TSA agents,
who are trained to root out knives, firearms, and suspicious packages, were
quite perplexed. The man admitted it was a red-eared slider turtle but failed
to offer a compelling reason for stuffing the turtle in his pants. There appears
to be no statute specifically disallowing a person from stuffing a domestic
species of turtle down the front of their pants, but confused Port Authority
police escorted the man from the security checkpoint just for good measure.
The turtle was
unharmed.
Source: AP
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