Courtesy of my brother...
Every year, there's a big military exercise in the Nevada desert. My brother, who's in the air force, was employed for however long it was flying around in a Herc so that people could throw themselves out of it.

He'd flown out on an RAF transport into a USAF base, but was coming back on a civvy flight. Somehow, when he arrived, he'd managed not to get his passport stamped - well, I guess you don't get too many illegals coming in that way. Still, it meant that he had no point-of-entry for the security people to check when he came to leave from LAX. And, of course, they challenged him about this. For them, it was A SERIOUS MATTER.

My brother tried to explain what must have happened, but the security bloke was not budging. My brother had a stroke of genius.
"Does this mean that I'm going to be deported?"
Indeed it might well mean that. My brother looked into the middle distance for a moment, and then suggested that the best solution would be to allow him to deport himself on the aeroplane for which he had a ticket already.

He's in Guantanamo now.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 12:10, 5 replies)

Haha brilliantly done.

( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 14:31, closed)

it can cause issues though
chap at work was officially put on a no fly list because he managed to leave the US without getting his passport stamped and could therefore be at large in the US of A.

This was despite being contacted in the UK to tell him this...
(fivetide, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 15:08, closed)

I've had a bollocking a couple of times leaving the US because somebody on the way in hadn't stamped exactly the right thing in exactly the right place.
All you have to do is appear understanding and contrite until they get the MiniHitlers out of their system. It only takes a couple of minutes. It's hardly the dullest part of passing through an airport.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 15:32, closed)

Yer cos you're not the sort to have a pop at anyone ay?

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 31 Mar 2014, 22:36, closed)

Only a complete fucking moron would pick a scrap with an armed bureaucrat who essentially sits outside national law.
I'm only three quarters of a moron.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 31 Mar 2014, 22:52, closed)