Copenhagen Airport Security
A work colleague and I spent a very enjoyable six weeks in Copenhagen a few years back doing an IT project for an aircraft maintenance company at the airport. Getting "airside" i.e. onto the airport is actually quite similar to getting onto a flight and involves a fair bit of security and handing over your passport for the day. However at most airports, after a couple of weeks of coming and going, the security guys get to know you and things tend to be a bit more relaxed and less bureacratic. However post 911, you to get to find the odd jobsworth.... there was one in particular here in Denmark who was a right sod.

My colleague had one of those leather passport covers, and this jobsworth would refuse to accept the passport everyday, because it didn't quite fit in the pigeon holes used to store them. He sought permission each day from some admin office to store the passport on top of the pigeon hole shelves or some other more secure location.... This was every day for six weeks. We also used to have to get an escort to the company albeit only 100 yards away, but often we didn't bother with the escort on the way back..... the day he caught us heading out without an escort he ment absolutely mental!!
It made him even madder when we offered to go back and do it again properly
(Pearly Pearl, Thu 12 May 2005, 13:15, Reply)