Seafood Market Boiling Mad After 20 Pound Lobster Is Found In Luggage By TSA

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - An Old Saybrook seafood market has taken issue with a TSA agent at Logan International Airport in Boston. Issues arose after the agent posted a picture of a live lobster found in someone's checked baggage.

The agent posted a picture to Twitter over the weekend holding a 20-pound lobster from a checked bag, according to Eyewitness News 3. TSA officials said live lobsters are allowed in checked baggage if they are in a spill-proof container, and it is common for the creatures to be screened in New England.

On Monday, a post was written on the Atlantic Seafood Market Facebook page expressing the store's anger over the photograph. (To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts from more than 100 Connecticut communities click here.)

"This TSA agent should mind his own business," the post said. "When is it okay to go through someone's checked baggage and take photographs?"

An unidentified employee said in the post the checked cooler had been packed with care and concern for the lobsters, as well as the customer's personal property.

"In addition to this lobster, my customer also purchased several other lobsters, all of which were purposefully packed on top of this guy," the post said. "This agent (after seeing the contents on an x-ray machine, no doubt) had to dump out 12 other lobsters to get to this guy."

The post has sparked discussion on Facebook, with with many agreeing that TSA agents do not have the right to post pictures of someone else's luggage and others arguing the lobster is an animal and should not be considered personal property.

Read the full post at the Atlantic Seafood Market Facebook page.

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