TSA agents called Salt Lake City police upon discovery of what looked like a skull stuffed with a battery. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.
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00:00 Do you have anything to declare?
00:02 Airport security may want to check your bag if you have liquids, but what about a human skull?
00:08 TSA agents called Salt Lake City Police upon discovery of what looked like a skull stuffed with a battery.
00:16 A statement from TSA says check bag screening operations were shut down for nearly two hours.
00:22 Law enforcement investigated and determined it was just a model of a skull.
00:27 The traveler was reportedly going to Mexico for a conference and planned to use the skull model as part of his presentation.
00:33 Well, he must have had to improvise because KSL.com reported TSA kept it for him to claim when he returned to the U.S.