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And yet when SWMBO had to take some refrigerated medical hypodermic syringes with her to Spain last year, in a decent-sized cool bag, packed with gel cooling packs, she was simply waved through at Liverpool despite offering all the documentation we had gone to the bother of obtaining (pointlessly). They didn't even scan or swab it.
The worst (or best?!) airport security I have ever experienced, globally, is at the Islay Airstrip, Scotland. Complete bag empty and every item laid out, wallet emptied of every card and note, every sock unraveled, insides taken out of pens, every electronic device taken out of sleeve. And it wasn't just me. I have heard since it's a bit renowned for it.D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
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7th Aug 2018 10:38 am
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He should have asked for the tools to be carried by the flight crew and returned on landing.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
7th Aug 2018 12:08 pm
L319
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He did and it was refused
7th Aug 2018 12:11 pm
B16 KJR
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I you think that's bad, try getting through airport security with a portable oxygen concentrator and two oxygen cylinders
7th Aug 2018 12:15 pm
Erea
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How things have changed. We brought a full sized ludicrously sharp Samurai sword on board as hand luggage on a flight from Tokyo to Paris about 20 years ago.
7th Aug 2018 12:26 pm
RRSTDV8
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L319 wrote:
He did and it was refused
Ah, missed that.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
7th Aug 2018 12:58 pm
RRSTDV8
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The thing with airport security is that it's outsourced* and carried out by people who are on low wages (£8-9/hr), possibly with low job security. They aren't going to go "off script" because they know full well that they'll get hung out to dry if an incident occurs. So they play the security equivalent of "computer says 'no' ".
ICTS do Belfast's security it seems and typical wages are £8-9/hr judging by jobs on their website.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
7th Aug 2018 1:06 pm
Browny90
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I took the misses to Paris a couple of years ago for new year, we flew from Luton, checked in online, Strolled right through the airport and onto the plane, My passport was in my pocket the whole time. It wasn't even checked when we got to Paris..
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I was returning from the Techno Classica in Essen via Frankfurt about 6 years ago with a friend who was carrying almost the same set of spanners he had bought there. He was given a choice, put them in the hold and miss the flight, or, put them in this contraption Sir and watch them being crunched.
He refused both options telling the security guard, "I paid good money for them and will not destroy them by my own hand, you can do it if you want to" The guard said there was a risk he might use them to dismantle the plane, to which I said "its a Lufthansa for God sake, has German build quality collapsed overnight"?
I then covertly advised the security guard that my friend was incapable of changing a fuse!! To which he said "Ah, well in that case he shouldn't have them anyway, and duly posted them in the crusher
7th Aug 2018 2:09 pm
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Spanish customs in Tenerife insisted on x-raying our big boxes of fun (hand grenades, phos, link et al) and all our personal weapons.... presumably looking for concealed luggage or something.
That said, credit must go to a German customs man stepping over rows of neatly strapped down and rather large 1000lbs bombs before asking us what cargo we were carrying. Clearly nothing escaped his keen eye.
I did once question the crew on Delta flight as to why they had let a man on carrying a guitar. She tried to explain that they had the space whilst I was trying to point out that some nuns had also boarded and the combination did not look good. I nervously awaited the potential boarding of a sick child.Land Rover - Turning Drivers into Mechanics Since 1948
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I did once question the crew on Delta flight as to why they had let a man on carrying a guitar. She tried to explain that they had the space whilst I was trying to point out that some nuns had also boarded and the combination did not look good. I nervously awaited the potential boarding of a sick child.
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7th Aug 2018 3:03 pm
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7th Aug 2018 3:13 pm
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Easiest airport we ever flew to/from was Barra. Co pilot did the safety brief. Co Pilot unloaded the bags, and put them on the table.
On leaving, the lady who checked us in, then served us chips and a coffee, , then checked our boarding passes and opened the door to the beach runway.
7th Aug 2018 3:17 pm
James W
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Erea wrote:
How things have changed. We brought a full sized ludicrously sharp Samurai sword on board as hand luggage on a flight from Tokyo to Paris about 20 years ago.
You reminded me I brought a hand-made bow and set of arrows back from Venezuela in 1995, it just went in the overhead locker. It wasn't just for show either, the tribesman had demonstrated their efficiency by skewering a chicken with them at about 25 yards. They're on the wall of my study as I type.
And we smoked all the way back for 13 hours. Seems like another world now.D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
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This guy wasn't allowed to take his wheelchair repair kit on the plane as the tools could be used to dismantle the plane 
I brought a hand-made bow and set of arrows back from Venezuela in 1995, it just went in the overhead locker. It wasn't just for show either, the tribesman had demonstrated their efficiency by skewering a chicken with them at about 25 yards. They're on the wall of my study as I type.
