Man Pulls Off Ultimate Feat: Sneaks Monkey onto Plane
Something like this could only happen in our wildest dreams--a man smuggled a monkey onto a Spirit Airlines plane originating from Lima, Peru on its way to LaGuardia Airport. Lucky Monkey!
Officials say the monkey, a pygmy marmoset, apparently belonged to a male passenger from Lima, Peru. He bought the animal off the streets in Lima.
The man then smuggled the animal, which measures only about a foot tall, through security in Peru onto a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He then got past security again when he took a connecting flight from there to New York City, and he even kept the monkey out in the open mid-flight.
Passengers of that flight say they noticed a small monkey clinging to the man's ponytail during the flight and reported it to authorities.
Unfortunately for the man and the monkey, they were met by Port Authority officials once they touched ground in New York. The animal was sent to Animal Control and is being examined for diseases. (WCBS-TV has some video of the caged monkey.)
Naturally, TSA officials have their panties in a bunch about how this monkey could have gotten past security. But c'mon now. Can't they just appreciate the beauty of a monkey on an airplane? He was even well-behaved passengers a few passengers reported, more so than some children we bet.
Anyways, the larger worry does seem to be whether the monkey was infected with diseases. One passenger expressed his concern saying, "There may be worse things that could happen -- it could grow into one of those big ones." Although, we're not quite sure if he meant a big outbreak or a big monkey.
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