“A Historic Find”. Agents at JFK airport in New York, United States, photos shared on tuesday from one of his scans on social networks: in the middle of several products in a suitcase, the silhouette of a cat lying in the luggage can be seen very clearly.
“A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was surprised to find an orange cat in a checked bag at JFK airport after it went through the X-ray unit,” TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein wrote.
This story dates back to November 16, NBC News reports. The suitcase in question was checked in for a flight from New York to Orlando, Florida, with a scheduled connection in Atlanta, Georgia.
The cat “is out of the bag and safe”
In other photos shared by the TSA, you can see orange hair sticking out of the suitcase and an officer opening the bag to find the cat inside, which airport officials say is alive and well. “He got out of the bag and is safe,” the TSA says.
“The X-ray machine is this cat’s new best friend,” says Lisa Farbsteinbecause transport in these conditions could have been fatal for the animal.
The owner of the luggage said “the cat belonged to someone else” who lived in his house, the TSA says. He would have slipped into the suitcase without the traveler noticing.
“Cats like spaces that are surrounded by barriers,” Katherine Houpt, an animal behavior expert, tells NBC News.
CBS recalls for its part that airport agents regularly find strange items in the suitcases they check, citing, among other things: a weapon hidden in a raw chicken, a chainsaw or even a methamphetamine burrito.
Source: BFM TV
