On the TSA Blog each Friday you’ll find a report on the firearms, weapons and other prohibited – and often really strange – things found at airport checkpoints and in checked bags.
This week, for example, the TSA found 55 firearms at airport checkpoints. 51 of those firearms were loaded and 13 had rounds chambered.
The fact that so many people just ‘forget’ they’ve got a gun, especially a loaded gun, in their carry-on is always alarming. But Friday’s report that TSA officers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport found a chihuahua inside a checked bag is mostly amusing.
#TSA reunited this Chihuahua with its owner after officers found the pup inside this checked suitcase at #LGA. pic.twitter.com/iM28mTn65c
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) March 6, 2015
According to the TSA, officers found the dog inside the suitcase while they were resolving a checked baggage alarm. TSA had the airline track down the suitcase owner, who said she had no idea the dog was in there and that the dog – a 7 year old chihuahua – must have climbed into the suitcase as it was being packed.
The woman with the Chihuahua contacted her husband, who picked up the dog at LaGuardia and took it home. #TSA
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) March 6, 2015
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