But cats? Live cats? Tucked inside carry-ons? It’s occurred earlier than, and now it is occurred once more.
On Friday morning at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia, a feline was found inside a passenger’s carry-on bag throughout a safety screening.
The TSA launched an X-ray picture of the poor pet cat in its official Twitter feed.
The tweet got here with one of many TSA common puns: “Attention pet owners: Please do not send your pet through the X-ray unit. Cat-astrophic mistake!”
“This was a case where the passenger was travelling with their pet,” Lisa Farbstein, a spokesperson for the TSA, informed CNN Travel by e mail on Friday afternoon.
“They knew the pet was in a carry-on bag because this was a pet travel case/container.
“It seems that the person both didn’t know to take away the pet from the carry-on journey case earlier than going via the checkpoint or forgot to take action,” she said.
“When that occurs, they’ve to begin over again, that means that the passenger and the cat have to begin over on the checkpoint.
“The passenger needs to remove the pet from a carry case and carry it through the walk-through metal detector or walk the pet through the metal detector on a leash.”
“This is typical of how people travel with small dogs. In the case of a cat, if there is no leash, we strongly recommend that the passenger requests screening in a private screening room.”
She mentioned the reason being as a result of “cats tend to be more skittish than dogs and might wiggle, scratch, bite and jump down and try to run away”.
Source: www.9news.com.au
