PHOTO: 20-pound live lobster found in luggage at airport

This Sunday, June 26, 2017, photo provided by Transportation Security Administration shows a TSA agent holding a live lobster that weighs roughly 20 pounds at Boston's Logan International Airport.
This Sunday, June 26, 2017, photo provided by Transportation Security Administration shows a TSA agent holding a live lobster that weighs roughly 20 pounds at Boston's Logan International Airport.

BOSTON — The Transportation Security Administration says a roughly 20-pound live lobster was spotted in a person's luggage at Boston's Logan International Airport.

TSA spokesman Michael McCarthy said Monday that the lobster found Sunday in the passenger's checked luggage at the airport's Terminal C is the "largest" he'd ever seen.

McCarthy said the TSA does not prohibit transporting lobsters. The TSA website says a live lobster is allowed through security but must be transported in a "clear, plastic, spill-proof container."

McCarthy said the lobster was in a cooler and "cooperated quite nicely with the screening process."

He shared a picture of a TSA agent holding up the crustacean on social media.

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