Man caught with bag of snakes hidden down trousers at airport
He almost got snakes on a plane.
A man attempting to board an airplane at Miami International Airport was busted with snakes concealed in his own trousers.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials detected a ‘bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s pants at a checkpoint last Friday, wrote a spokesperson for the agency on X (formerly Twitter).
The officers called Customs and Border Protection in the Southeast and Miami-Dade police to assist, and the snakes were turned over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
TSA shared a photos from the scene showing a camouflage print pouch and two slender pale pink snakes taken out from the bag. One of the snakes was coiled on a person’s hand, and a white bedding of sorts spilled out.
It was not immediately known if the reptiles were the man’s pets and why he was wanted to take them on board the plane with him.
A TSA spokesperson said the man was in trying to board an international flight.
‘It showed that there was an anomaly in the groin area and it marks it for a pat-down,’ the spokesperson told The Independent.
‘When the passenger came through they said that they needed to do a pat-down and that’s when he admitted that there were snakes in his pants.
‘At that point, they contacted law enforcement from there so I think that he knew that, you know, once the technology flagged him for a search that he was caught and he admitted to it.’
After the snakes were taken away, the man was barred from continuing on his flight.
It was not immediately clear if he faced charges.
The incident happened a year after a woman managed to hide 22 snakes and a chameleon in a checked bag and boarded her flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Chennai, India. Customs officials at Chennai International Airport made the creepy discovery.
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