Someone tried to smuggle a snake onto a plane by hiding it in a hard drive

Snakes on a plane? Not today. 

TSA agents in Miami intercepted an attempt at smuggling a live python onto a plane on Sunday. In an pun-filled Instagram post, the TSA detailed how a passenger tried to get a ball python from Miami to Barbados by tucking it into an external hard drive. 

Snakes on Barbados are actually quite rare, so an invasive species such as a ball python could cause serious damage to the local ecosystem. 

The python didn't manage to Slytherin to the plane. 

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