Airport StoriesBack when I was a moody teenager I took a cheap flight that involved changing planes and having to go through security again. My bags were pre-checked so, when I set off the metal detector, I honestly said to the security guy that I had no idea what had set it off.
Until, that is, he searched me and found the metal knife and fork stamped "KLM" I'd nicked off the previous flight.
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chthonic, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 10:09)
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CustomsA (very stupid) friend on mine called Ken was going to Turkey for a holiday. Just before he got off the plane, he realised that he had a wrap of 'Bolivian marching powder' in his pocket.
He devised a foolproof plan to get through customs. He tucked the offending wrap deeply between the pages of a magazine he was carrying. Who'd look there?
He got to customs and, inevitably, was stopped. While one gun-toting officer was going through his bag, much to Ken's horror, the other one stood next to him took the magazine off him, and started casually leafing through it, page by page. Ken stood there in a cold sweat, as one customs guy slowly and meticulously went through his bag, while the other got closer and closer to the offending page, and thus the beginning of his starring role in 'Midnight Express 2 - Bumrape Bonanza'.
He reckons that the officer was about 3 pages away when his bag and the magazine were returned to him, and he was told to go on his way.
(, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 15:06, Reply)
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