Florida: US transport officials caught a passenger trying to smuggle a gun on to a plane by hiding it inside a raw chicken.
The fowl plot was cracked by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.
The traveller’s weapon was spotted before boarding stuffed inside the bird and wrapped in paper packaging.
TSA officers joked on Instagram that the scheme “wasn’t even half-baked”.
Officials didn’t reveal who had hatched the plan, but photos posted to Instagram by the TSA showed officers examining the bird inside an airport screening area, before removing the gun and unwrapping it.
Firearms aren’t banned on US airlines, but they must be carried in checked baggage and have to be unloaded and placed in a locked hard-sided container.
Last year, the TSA said it had seized a record number of firearms from passengers at US airports. Around 85% of those taken were loaded, the agency said.
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