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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druggie? moi? obviously not.On the flight back from visiting my Dad in Hong Kong when I was 16, just as I was about to go through customs, it dawned on me that I was wearing technicolour flares, a similalrly bright waistcoat with buddha eyes on the back, and a cannabis leaf headband. You really couldn't miss me.
I also realised that I might have trouble explaining the cakes of green china tea my Dad had given me.
I really did expect to be arrested then and there....
However, they waved me straight through! I guess I looked too obvious to be smuggling drugs. So maybe if you are a drug smuggler the best thing to do is to look totally whacked out, and they'll ignore you.
(, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 13:58, Reply)
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