Security officials at JFK International Airport are expert at confiscating liquids and gels, but they’re useless against turtles. On Wednesday, about , causing delays of up to two hours and forcing air traffic controllers to reroute flights. The seven-inch-long turtles, which live in adjacent Jamaica Bay, were en route to a sandy nesting site on the other side of the runway to lay their eggs. The runway was eventually shut down for an hour while Port Authority and US Department of Agriculture workers rounded up the reptiles and trucked them to safer breeding grounds. The turtles, outraged, : “We go straight to the runway because it takes 5 hours to get out of our shells for the TSA鈥nd the shell pat down option is too awkward.”
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