Is that a turtle in your pants, or....?

[Boyd]

TSA conducted a pat-down Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport after a body scan alarm was triggered "in the area of the man's groin," according to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday. "When asked if there was something hidden in his pants, the man, a resident of East Stroudsburg, Pa., reached down the front of his pants and pulled out a live turtle," TSA officials said regarding the incident. The turtle was estimated to be approximately five inches in length and identified to be a red-ear slider turtle - one of the most popular breeds of pet turtle in the United States...
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Pennsylvania man caught trying to smuggle living turtle down his pants through airport security

A Pennsylvania man attempting to go through airport security was discovered to have been hiding a living turtle in his pants as he tried to sneak it onto the plane, authorities said.

6abc.com

 

[RJG]

He should have put a little sign on it that said “Service Turtle” and just held it in his hands.

 

[Boyd]

So, if this is "one of the most popular breeds of pet turtle", does that mean you could legally buy one at a pet store? If so, would it there be a problem with putting it in some kind of appropriate container and taking it on an airplane? For me, a turtle is probably my second least likely choice of pets (a snake would be the first).

 

[RednekF350]

So, if this is "one of the most popular breeds of pet turtle", does that mean you could legally buy one at a pet store? If so, would it there be a problem with putting it in some kind of appropriate container and taking it on an airplane? For me, a turtle is probably my second least likely choice of pets (a snake would be the first).

Red-eared sliders were the ones that you used to be able to buy in Woolworth's and other discount stores when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. I never had them. I would keep box turtles for a few weeks every year and enter them into Gibbsboro's 4th of July turtle races and then release them. Box turtles never won. The kids that ran snappers or painters always won.

 

[MuckSavage]

Red-eared sliders were the ones that you used to be able to buy in Woolworth's and other discount stores when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. I never had them. I would keep box turtles for a few weeks every year and enter them into Gibbsboro's 4th of July turtle races and then release them. Box turtles never won. The kids that ran snappers or painters always won.

On a box turtle, the aerodynamics are the disadvantage