Imagine the scene from Terminator 2: Judgement Day the place Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls a shotgun out of a box of roses, all of the flowers falling to the ground. The senseless machine steps on them as he pushes inexorably towards a younger John Connor. Now in your thoughts’s eye, change the field of roses with a full-sized, raw hen.

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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration posted a number of pictures of a relatively fowl discover on its Instagram page Monday when brokers uncovered a handgun stuffed into the cavity of a uncooked hen. The wrapped, uncooked hen discovered on the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida was in a Quirch-brand hen, apparently contained in its authentic packaging. Though when brokers opened it up they discovered one other plastic bag containing a handgun full with what looks like an unloaded journal.

In a collection of actually glorious bird-based puns, the TSA referred to as it a “‘hen you believe it’ find,” additional including that “stuffing a firearm in your holiday bird for travel is just a baste of time. This idea wasn’t even half-baked; it was raw, greasy, and obviously unsupervised. The only roast happening here is this poor packing choice!”

Good stuffing there, TSA. The company often posts about among the most bonkers objects vacationers have tried to sneak via safety checkpoints. Though the tried gun smuggling reportedly occurred again in September, the federal company’s Instagram web page does try to submit content material to correspond with holidays or different present occasions. The web page just lately posted a couple of traveler shifting a small mountain of treats shortly after Halloween.

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In an electronic mail assertion, a TSA spokesperson advised Gizmodo the company intercepted the handgun Sept. 27 on the FLL airport. The passenger was on their technique to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, however didn’t give extra info as to who the passenger was or why they discovered it essential to stuff a cannon in a hen.

The TSA did inform The Washington Post that an unknown worldwide passenger was flying internationally, which meant the Customs and Border Protection reportedly turned concerned. Though the CBP advised Gizmodo that Homeland Security is at the moment dealing with the investigation. A spokesperson for Homeland Security mentioned the particular person in query was arrested, however declined to offer any additional particulars citing it’s an ongoing investigation.

The TSA just lately reported that Florida has seen a record number of people trying to move guns through TSA checkpoints, most of them loaded. The company recovered 120 weapons on the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood airport this yr, however the report is at the moment held by Orlando International with 129 firearms intercepted. Overall there have been greater than 700 weapons recovered from the beginning of the yr till early November, in keeping with the company.

Laws for travelling with firearms rely state-to-state, however in Florida individuals are allowed to take weapons via checked baggage although they have to be correctly packaged in a locked exhausting case and so they have to be declared on the airline check-in. Passengers who attempt to transfer weapons via carry-on can face a penalty as much as $13,910 on prime of doable arrest and potential felony penalties.

But the variety of weapons shifting via airports is on the rise, in accordance the TSA. In 2020, officers found 3,257 firearms on passengers or in carry-on. That quantity grew to 5,972 in 2021, the place 86% of these have been loaded.