Gun hidden in a raw chicken found at Florida TSA checkpoint

A gun discovered inside a uncooked hen at an airport safety checkpoint has the TSA calling “private fowl.”
“The plot chickens,” the Transportation Safety Administration posted this week on Instagram after somebody on the company placed on their punny pants and referred to as consideration to the “baste of time” that’s stuffing a chicken with a firearm.
The passenger was headed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, based on Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokesperson for the Gulf area.
Nestor Iglesias, a spokesperson for Homeland Safety Investigations, the investigative arm of the US Division of Homeland Safety, mentioned he couldn’t provide extra particulars as a result of it’s an “ongoing felony case which has been accepted for prosecution.”
A document variety of weapons have arrived at TSA checkpoints in Florida in 2022. Passengers have introduced greater than 700 weapons to checkpoints at airports within the state thus far this yr — a year-to-date quantity that already surpasses any earlier yr, based on a TSA information launch.
Information have been set at 12 Florida airports, with airports in Orlando (129 weapons), Fort Lauderdale (120 weapons) and Tampa (102 weapons) main the way in which.
Almost the entire weapons found at checkpoints have been loaded, the TSA mentioned, and most had ammunition chambered.
“An unintentional discharge may end in tragedy,” the TSA’s Koshetz mentioned in an announcement. “Each passenger bares the accountability of figuring out precisely the place their gun is earlier than getting into the safety checkpoint.”
For a lot of passengers, bringing weapons to airports resulted in arrests and notices to seem in court docket.
Civil penalties from the TSA can attain $13,910 even when the passenger is just not arrested, the TSA’s information launch mentioned.
Firearms have to be packed in checked baggage. The TSA outlines particular guidelines associated to weapons and ammunition on its web site.