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Man uses stick-figure drawings in lawsuit against TSA

Do I have to paint you a picture?

A Bronx man angry at the Transportation Security Administration for allegedly damaging a jade dragon he was trying to ship to Hong Kong from JFK did just that in a $1 million lawsuit he filed last week.

Complete with a stick-figure sketch of a TSA agent dumping out the jade dragon from its cardboard box, Ying Jing Zeng made quite clear what he thought happened to his precious, 45-pound item.

“Because this Antique Jade is too heavy, so, the JFK’s [sic] ‘TSA’ officer used the easy way to pour out the Jade to make the inspection . . .”, he wrote.

Zeng wrote his hypothesis on the “rendering” of the moment in November that he believes his dragon was dumped onto the ground by a careless TSA agent.

He even diagrams where he believes the rope he tied around the box had been cut, and a squiggly image of the dragon ­itself.

The jade alone is worth more than $500,000, he claims in Brooklyn federal-court papers.

The TSA declined to comment.

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