US airport finds gun stuffed in chicken by traveller

US transport officials person roasted a rider online aft they were caught trying to smuggle a weapon connected to a level by hiding it wrong a earthy chicken.

The fowl crippled was cracked by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers astatine Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.

The traveller's limb was spotted earlier boarding stuffed wrong the vertebrate and wrapped successful insubstantial packaging.

TSA officers joked connected Instagram that the strategy "wasn't adjacent half-baked".

Officials didn't uncover who had hatched the plan, but photos posted to Instagram by the TSA showed officers examining the vertebrate wrong an airdrome screening area, earlier removing the weapon and unwrapping it.

With the yearly Thanksgiving holidays accelerated approaching, the bureau leaned heavy into festive puns successful their caption, quipping that its officers "are ever moving astir the cluck to support you safe".

"The crippled chickens arsenic we tube our mode person to Thanksgiving," a TSA spokesperson wrote.

"We hatred to beak it to you here, but stuffing a firearm successful your vacation vertebrate for question is conscionable a baste of time. This thought wasn't adjacent half-baked; it was raw, greasy, and evidently unsupervised. The lone roast happening present is this mediocre packing choice!"

"Feather you similar it oregon not, determination are rules for traveling with guns and ammunition," the TSA concluded.

Firearms aren't banned connected US airlines, but they indispensable beryllium carried successful checked baggage and person to beryllium unloaded and placed successful a locked hard-sided container.

Last year, the TSA said it had seized a grounds fig of firearms from passengers astatine US airports. Around 85% of those taken were loaded, the bureau said.

Travellers astir the satellite person sometimes expressed exasperation astatine the strict quality of airdrome security.

But TSA officers' dedication to their task implicit the years has resulted successful immoderate bizarre finds, ranging from a chainsaw stored successful immoderate hand-luggage successful New Orleans, a manus grenade recovered successful New York and thing the bureau called a "meth burrito" successful Houston.