According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Security officers found 30 snakes, a dead bird and pieces of several other birds in the luggage of a man arriving at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from South Korea last month.

The snakes were dead, but startled screeners still took extra precautions with the reptiles, said Jon Allen, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.

“We contacted U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and they warned us some of them probably still contained venom,” Allen said.

Allen said the snakes and birds were inside “four or five” boxes checked as luggage by a Korean Air passenger arriving at Hartsfield-Jackson’s international terminal on Aug. 15. Checked luggage coming into the country is routinely screened, and it is not unusual to find animals and animal parts.

TSA officials said they have no idea what the passenger intended to do with the creatures.

When asked for comment, actor Samuel L. Jackson, a passenger on the flight in question, said: “Enough is enough! I have had it with these @%&!$ snakes on this $%#!@ plane!”