“They had asked me, when they put … the luggage through the X-ray, whether I had a turkey,” Martell said.

“[Security] kept going back and forth with [the suitcase],” Martell said. “I was adamant. ‘Look, I have no turkey.’”

What she did have was a cat that had stowed away in her luggage. I don’t personally see how that’s possible in the first place, but for the persons working the X-ray machine, how could they not distinguish between the build of a cat a the build of a turkey? I haven’t seen an X-ray of either of these animals, but I feel fairly confident I could at least determine that one was a bird and one was a four legged critter of some sort. If they can’t tell a cat from a turkey, are they capable of telling a bomb from a book? Also, why didn’t they open the bag and inspect it? Hell, my bag always got rifled through when I took my blow-dryer with me. You’d think the least they would do would be to open the damn bag and look when they keep asking someone if they have a turkey in their bag, and that person keeps saying “Look, I have no turkey.”