On Thursday, a man was arrested at a checkpoint at Miami International Airport after agents discovered seven small snakes and three small turtles hidden in his trousers, the TSA said.
Agents pulled the man aside after a full body scanner detected something odd in his underwear and found the reptiles wrapped in little bundles of ladies' pantyhose, the TSA said.
U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife officers took custody of the critters and arrested the unidentified man, who was headed for Brazil.
One day earlier, agents at Los Angeles International Airport nabbed a woman trying to board a plane with two giant yellow birds taped to her leg and chest, the blog said.
A woman in Los Angeles had wrapped two birds in socks, left, and taped them to her body before trying to board a plane to China. At right, the snakes taken from the man in Miami one day later. (TSA)
That woman, who was travelling to China and had a Chinese passport, had hidden her feathered friends in some socks, the TSA said.
Wildlife officers arrested her on suspicion of smuggling an endangered species out of the country.
It wasn't clear what kind of birds they were.
Though agents find odd objects on passengers all the time, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said two instances of creature crime in the same week was rare for the agency.
"All of our jaws dropped," Farbstein told the Daily News. "It just goes to show the lengths that people will go to try to sneak something past officials."
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