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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Post 9/11 Drug ParanoiaI once went into the toilets at an airport, and having sat down to lighten my load I noticed a syringe on the floor of the cubicle. Knowing that there was a security guard standing by the urinals and watching the cubicles I gently edged the syringe under the partition into the empty cubicle next to mine with my foot. Almost immediately another traveller entered the cubicle with the syringe in and after a piss and a flush, left.
When I emerged from my cubicle a few minutes later I saw that the security guard was talking to a confused looking man. After washing my hands and leaving the toilets I noticed that two police officers were standing guard outside, and not letting anyone else in. They even had some of their blue-and-white tape ready. Happily, they let me out without a word.
I still wonder if they took the confused guy away for interrogation and drug testing.
(, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 0:39, Reply)
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