If a monkey can be smuggled undetected onto a plane to New York, under some guy's hat, then Homeland Security has a brand new monkey on it's back

They make us take off our shoes and get strip searched because they're worried about explosives, but they miss a monkey?

Federal investigators are trying to determine how a man smuggled a monkey from Peru to New York...under his hat.

I baking powder? Exsqueeze me?

It began Monday when the man boarded a flight from Peru to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with the tiny monkey tucked under his hat.

He then spent several hours at the Fort Lauderdale airport before catching a connecting flight to New York's La Guardia airport.

During that flight the monkey crawled out from under the man's hat and onto his shoulder, where it was spotted by other passengers.

Pardon me while I stifle a giggle. This makes such a farce out of our Very Serious Security People that I'm tempted to get on a flight to D.C. with a chimp under my cap, just to see if anyone notices.

Oh wait. President Cheney's most likely already done that with Vice President Bush. Never mind.