Michelle had it late last night. Like Michelle, and many people, I’ve had the TSA rummage through my stuff. They swiped my camera bag with swabs, and I had to wait for the results. They found my toothpaste I didn’t even know I had in the bottom of my suitcase. They confiscated my water bottle. Yet, they don’t have the ability to locate a living, breathing pygmy marmoset.

CBS 2 HD has learned a monkey was apparently snuck into the United States with a passenger from Peru and let loose during a Spirit Airlines flight that landed at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday afternoon.

Officials say the monkey, a pygmy marmoset, apparently belonged to a male passenger from Lima, Peru. He bought the animal off the streets in Lima.

The man then smuggled the animal, which measures only about a foot tall, through security in Peru onto a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He then got past security again when he took a connecting flight from there to New York City, and he even kept the monkey out in the open mid-flight.

Passengers of that flight say they noticed a small monkey clinging to the man’s ponytail during the flight and reported it to authorities…

Transportation Security Administration officials say the animal is so small it could have easily passed through security without detection, but they are investigating.

Greeeeaaat.