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Transportation Security Administration officers at Miami International Airport on Aug. 25 discovered seven exotic snakes and three tortoises that a passenger had concealed inside his pants.
A Miami International Airport passenger is in trouble after being caught with snakes in his pants while trying to board a flight.
The Transportation Security Administration said Monday the seven cold-blooded reptiles were discovered on the male passenger by security scanners on Aug. 25.
It was not clear where in the man's pants the snakes were hidden or if the snakes were venomous.
But the unidentified passenger didn't stop at sneaking snakes on a plane, authorities allege. He also had three tortoises hidden in a nylon bag concealed in his pants, TSA spokesman Jon Allen said.
The exotic animals were confiscated by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife and the man was arrested for trafficking illegal wildlife.
This story originally appeard on nbcmiami.com.
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Moron.
The media loves to report these TSA pseudo-successes but ignores real stories that expose TSA for the sick agency that it has become.
Last week The Elko Daily News reported that a TSA agent in Nevada was arrested on six counts of child molestation making this the seventh TSA agent arrested for a sex crime this year.
"The Elko County Sheriff's Office was notified in July of possible sexual contact between David Ralph Anderson, 61, and a girl younger than 14. Anderson allegedly taught the victim about various sexual acts and had sexual contact in the form of touching each other's genitals. Anderson, who is a TSA employee according to Elko County Jail records, is being held on $250,000 bail."
Since December forty-four screeners have been arrested or convicted of crimes including rape, child pornography, theft and drug trafficking.
Where is the story on those?
I think you forgot one very important part to this. This child molestation did not take place while the TSA agent was working, this was during his off time. That doesn't make it right, but don't make it sound as if it happened at the airport while he was on duty.
While I agree with you, the real problem with TSA isn't the individual screener. True, some do commit crimes, but there are bad apples in other law enforcement jobs, the military, and every other profession.
The real problem is administration and senior management. The policies are completely ineffective and do nothing more than hassle the ordinary, law-abiding passenger. This is what needs to be criticized and changed.
He got away with the ones at work because he was on job.
People always think I'm hiding a snake, wherever I go.
The TSA perverts noticed the large bulge in this fellows pants, but upon further investigation were disappointed to discover the bulge was caused by actual snakes.
At least the mothaf#ckin snakes didn't get on the mothaf#ckin plane!!!!!!!!!!!
mothaf#ckin trouser snakes lol!!!!
Maybe he was a Slytherin...
mothaf#ckin venom spittin' trouser snakes!!!!!!
TSA found seven snakes and one shriveled little worm.
lol good one
Wow and the TSA is charging us for this how much?
Uh huh. And he was going to commandeer the plane using seven snakes and three turtles? Ooooh, I'm so impressed with the competence of TSA here that I'm almost going to overlook their blatant sexual abuse of children. Their vile molesting of innocent passengers. Their creating naked images of people against their will. Their blasting pregnant women and toddlers with unnecessary and dangerous radiation. No, I changed my mind - nothing is worth tolerating the TSA's depraved and immoral campaign of sexual humiliation. Defund and disband the criminal conspiracy that is the TSA!
Maybe not with turtles, but I guaran-damn-tee ya that if he had let seven snakes loose on a flight there would be more than a little disruption going on mid-flight. And, furthermore, this was a story of a completely different genre than sexual violation (unless the snakes and turtles had their way with him while being transported in his trousers) by TSA agents. That's for another time and place, so maybe a good sunning on a warm rock might do you some good.
If he made the snakes looked like guns, he would have made it.
It takes a whole new level of stupid to stick 7 snakes down your pants, regardless of where you are or why you're doing it.
I'm tired of these m***** f***** turtles on this m***** f***** plane!
food for thought...next time you're on a plane, look at the person next to you and think to yourself "does this moron have snakes in his pants?"
every time i attempt air travel...i always gotta be dealin with motha fn snakes on a plane!!
Enough is enough! I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!
Yeah.....glad that guy didn't get in the air with his pets. Still, this story doesn't make me think the TSA is any less useless or any less perverted.
Someone get these mother@!$%#ing snakes off my mother@!$%#ing plane!
What is this? "National Day for Brain-Dead Morons 'who can't get a job' Postings"?
Doesn't Overhead Bin have ANY editorial staff onboard to weed out these idiotic reply posts? (or do they just have Mondays off????)
If they are hard up for help, I'll be happy to work for $40/hour twice a week to hit the ol' delete button! Call me!
(oooh... oops ... it's an MSNBC production ... I'm sorry ... I guess we should just plain be lucky that there aren't more flaky 'flashy-tacky ads' here by flaky companies advertising flaky scam diet plans or flaky phony loan scams or flaky credit-rating scams like on the 'highly professional" MSN homepage or it's links to most of it's ad-ridden MSNBC sister pages! My apologies!)
:-)= Sincere apologies ....
The issue of pedophiles and molestation is a problem with our society in general, not the TSA. That being said, I've been in countries that have very good airport security, and it doesn't even resemble America's. I've gotten through security, sometimes even with liquids or such in my bag that they threw out without the agent so much as looking at me, never mind speaking with me.
Good security has to do with being able to assess people, not making everyone put their shoes on an x-ray. People will always invent knew ways of smuggling and hiding things, but our human tendencies when unsure or nervous are not hard to read to the trained eye.
I like turtles.
(And snakes).
He should be put in Federal prison for at least 20 years for this.
So, what is the worst that could have happened, if he had gotten the snakes onto the plane? Another bad movie?
I'm waiting for Blogger Bob to post a "see how TSA is keeping air travel safe" post on the TSA blog.
And by keeping the critters off the plane we gain how much?
And to keep the critters off the plane costs us how much?
In a down economy we need to focus on things which generate value so we can create sustainable jobs to support that. It's tough to put actual numbers on this but IMO all these little successes TSA shows are one grain of sand compared to the beach of costs we incur on their behalf. W/o TSA our chances of dieing from terrorism were less than being struck by lightening and about 1000 times less than being killed by a drunk driver. Considering America's economy and budget woes is TSA/DHS really the best use of America's limited funds? IMO there are much cheaper ways to get better security which at the same time are less intrusive on the traveler and less prone to abuse.
That didn't take long. A post went up yesterday on the TSA web and blog site about this.
Sounds like a plot for a T.V. movie that goes straight to video. What did you say, it's already been done.
Couldn't the title be "Snakes on a Plane VII."
Well how 'bout a plot line with three turtles-they all dress up in black, carry "numb chucks" and call themselves names from the Bible. No, wait don't tell me. This has already been done. Snappy title "Teen Age Ninja Turtles III."
Better snakes, than brats, on a plane!