He would have got away with it too if it weren’t for the pesky security staff.
How he thought he could get away with it is hard to comprehend, but a Chinese passenger attempted to smuggle his pet turtle in his luggage bag by dressing him up as a burger.
According to The Irish Examiner, the man came a cropper when an X-ray machine detected unusual “protrusions” poking out from a burger bun inside his luggage bag and inspectors asked to take a closer look.
After denying there was a turtle in his bag, he was forced to confess when security staff found his “beloved” pet smeared in mayonnaise.
Pic credit: The Examiner
The smuggler, known as Mr. Li, claimed he could not stand to be apart from his pet, before being persuaded to leave the turtle with a friend.
You might say it was a case of turtle-recall.
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