CNN contributor Ana Navarro reports:
I just heard an announcement over the speaker at airport in Albany asking that the person who forgot their emotional support goldfish at the TSA checkpoint, please come back to retrieve it.
No. I’m not making this up.— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) March 11, 2018
Unlike Spirit Airlines the TSA apparently doesn’t require flushing emotional support animals down the toilet. Leaving behind the goldfish may have been done in hopes of finding them a new home if the passenger was flying United or Delta amidst their crackdown.
Want I want to know though is how this passenger managed to get the goldfish through the checkpoint in the first place in more than 3 ounces of water that would have been necessary to keep them alive. I can’t imagine the water was frozen to become a solid, either.
Goldfish aren’t the only thing left behind at a checkpoint today. (HT: @pir8z40
Austin airport PA: "If you've been to Checkpoint 2, and left your white cowboy hat, please return to claim it." (Also, going thru security line with Connie Britton). Peak #SXSW for me.
— Brook Silva-Braga (@Brook) March 12, 2018
By the way Ms. Navarro is also apparently not a fan of American Airlines streaming inflight entertainment.
Oscar nominated films now avail on @AmericanAir. So far, I saw one movie about a woman having sex with Charlie the Tuna, and one about a boy having sex with a man, a girl & a peach – but not simultaneously. I’m thinking the next one, is about sex w/3 billboards.🐠 🍑🤷🏻♀️
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) March 12, 2018
American’s fairly anodyne response appears to have been deleted.
First, a small goldfish may not need more than 3oz of water. And apparently, if a fish alive in water, it is not considered threatening, although they may swab it. I know this from personally bringing 4 (small) fish through security in the last year.
Paging CJ Cregg
Between peacocks, flushing hamsters and abandoning goldfish I don’t know how much more weird this can really get.
@Steve: Easy: My 10 emotional support cloned dogs. One for each of my psychiatric disorders (one of which is obviously having my dog cloned. It’s in the DSM somewhere ).
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Hey, Steve, it can get much weirder! After channeling my inner Al Yankovic (an old classmate from my Cal Poly days), I have decided to bring my ten dozen three inch long emotional support hissing cockroaches with me on my next flight. If TSA or the airline won’t allow them to board, I will just leave them behind and take their empty cage to console me.
If someone truly required an emotional support fish to fly, wouldn’t this situation have resolved itself anyway? As in, “I can’t get on this plane without my fish – dang, where is that fish?”
Jeff
I was thinking that exactly. Made me smile.
Not very significant to the article however , goldfish can be gradually frozen then gradually thawed and survive as proven by Andrea Dickey .
TSA allows live aquaria with more than 3oz of water. Supervisor has to give a verbal ok, but has never been a problem for me. Even coral, which looks dead when being transported.