A few days ago, the execrable TSA ferreted out a live, 20-pound lobster from a checked cooler at Boston Logan. It then bragged on its equally execrable Instagram account about this meaningless catch–as it often does. The TSA not only violates the Fourth Amendment and our privacy at the airport, it then mocks its victims for carting along unusual items on their flights. As if our choice of accouterments is any of the government’s business.

Each time I see another such tacky display from the TSA, I’m  amazed that passengers don’t protest this insult. Finally, one of them has:

A Connecticut woman said she did not find it funny when she learned TSA agents posed for pictures with a giant lobster she shipped to a customer.

“This is TSA. These are our personal belongings. They have a duty to be respectful and do their jobs”–

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

–“not be nosing around in our stuff, taking photographs,” said Lisa Feinman, who owns Atlantic Seafood Market in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

You probably won’t be surprised that the TSA’s incompetent thugs didn’t have a clue how to handle lobsters, either:

[Ms. Feinman] said a lobster is supposed to be held by its body, underneath the arms [and not by its claws, as the TSA’s snoop did], to support the weight …

“(My customer) opened up his cooler. The biggest lobster was sitting at the top, all the other lobsters were underneath it, no more paper to keep it cool. You know, it was just improper,” she said.

Mr. Customer wasn’t happy either: “I pay to have security secure my luggage,”—ditto on the HA HA HA HA, etc.– “not for them to go through and take it out just to take photos of it.”

Meanwhile, the TSA threatened to “personally reach out to” the fishmonger and her client. Pssst,  you two: run. Fast. As anyone who’s survived the TSA’s checkpoint charade can tell you, these perverts “reach out” only to steal your valuables and to gate-rape.

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