UPDATE at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 1, 2015: The TSA confirmed the incident. See more below.

Dear travelers: Don't put your pets through the carry-on X-ray machine at the airport, even if they have a half-dozen balloons of heroin in their little tummies.

A man (or woman, see below) learned this lesson the hard way sometime after 2:30 p.m. at LAX today. (No drugs were involved, just a feline.)

He/she put his/her cat through a baggage X-ray and apparently went on alone through passenger screening. People went apeshit and tweeted about it, as was first reported by Gawker.

The amount of screaming that's happening in the Jet Blue terminal at LAX is incredible right now and yet it feels completely appropriate. — The Sklar Brothers (@SklarBrothers) July 1 2015

HOLY SHIT. A dude just put his cat inside the X-Ray machine at LAX. The TSA is flipping the fuck out. — Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) July 1 2015