Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy used a picture of the monster from sci-fi horror movie Alien to call for more inpsections of foreign seafood, after some frozen shrimp were contaminated with a radioactive isotope.

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy took the Senate floor and said that radioactive shrimp could cause people to morph into aliens. What he said here.

ET phone home — but not to the United States! A Republican senator presented a bizarre plea on the US Senate floor last week, warning against fictitious dangers presented by radioactive shrimp, including claims that consuming it could make someone grow new appendages — or go the way of the extraterrestrial.