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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
 Posted - 07/05/2007 : 07:46:57
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Renown Swedish Soul singer and poker player, Dilba missed her plane to USA to play in World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
She was standing in line for the Check-In of US Airlines, waiting.
Apparently, the security staff goes around interviewing all passengers as some kind of backup check before the Check-In. I can't recall that ever happening to me, but then I only travelled within the EU.
Anyway, it was time for Dilba to answer the questions, she started out patiently. But rather soon, she became annoyed that she had to answer many more questions than the rest of the passengers. Feeling singled out because of her Arabic looks (she's Kurdish), in exasperation, she joked about blowing up a few planes on her way home.
The security crew didn't have her sense of humour though.
She was yanked out of the line and taken aside for further questioning (treated like a terrorist according to Dilba), and was banned from US Airlines' flights for life.
Let's hope I'll be able to constrain myself when it gets time for me. I'll try to remember as many of the questions as possible.
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 08:10:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse...
Let's hope I'll be able to constrain myself when it gets time for me. I'll try to remember as many of the questions as possible. |
Carry a digital voice recorder in your shirt pocket.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
 Posted - 07/05/2007 : 08:26:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GeeMack
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse...
Let's hope I'll be able to constrain myself when it gets time for me. I'll try to remember as many of the questions as possible. |
Carry a digital voice recorder in your shirt pocket.
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I'll have to purchase one... But I've been meaning to buy an iPod or similar anyway so, this seems as good a time as any.
(did that last sentence parse correctly?) |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 09:26:22 [Permalink]
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There are some things one just doesn't do. One doesn't call a high-school principle and joke about setting the school on fire. One doesn't joke about a robbery while waiting in line at the bank. And one doesn't joke about blowing up airplanes while talking to airline security.
As a private entity, the airline is free to set almost whatever restrictions they like on granting passage on their airplanes to people, even to the point of inventing random "rules" on a whim. They could have demanded that Dilba do a handstand in order to get on the plane, if they so chose. I'm sure everyone will agree that the airline should be fair, but there are few laws that give them such an obligation.
Of course, if Dilba had suspected a racial motivation to the extreme questioning, there are laws to redress such wrongs. However, because security obviously thought they were in the clear, anything more than a patient reminder from her that the airline is obligated to not discriminate on the basis of race would be a waste of time, and just annoy her and security even more. The proper place and time to raise a big stink about such incidents is after you've landed and in court. Because even if she hadn't made such a poorly considered joke, if she'd gotten angry enough to argue with them, they could have simply labeled her "disruptive" and she would have stayed home, too.
Don't screw around with airline security, Mab. If they happen to notice that you're recording them, you'll miss your plane. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 13:26:00 [Permalink]
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So, they don't even like to be recorded?
In that case, the iPod goes into the hand luggage.
Missing this plane is the last think I would like to do. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 18:02:50 [Permalink]
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I am not sure if audio recording is banned, but video recording defitely is banned in airports in the US.
When I fly these days I just ignore the halfwit security as much as possible. In the US (I don't imagine its much different elsewhere) the large majority of the post 9/11 airport security people are idiots. No point arguing with them because even if you are in the right they can mess your schedule up beyond repair.
I just laugh out loud and look at them as if they were retarded while putting my shoes into the xray machine.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 18:29:03 [Permalink]
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Just to clarify, I know nothing of the rules regarding audio recordings of airport/airline security.
What I do know is that if they think you're messing with them, they will mess with you. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 19:00:16 [Permalink]
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| ... she joked about blowing up a few planes on her way home. |
If any of us had, on US soil, made such a threat in an airport, I guarantee that missing a plane would be the least of our worries for the next days, weeks, or months. I could not imagine allowing any airport security guard to continue his or her employment if they let anyone board a plane after uttering such words.
Since well before 9/11, people in the airline industry here, and I assume it's the same worldwide (including Sweden), just don't think bomb "jokes" are very funny. For many years now, I have completely wiped that b-word from my vocabulary when anywhere near a plane or an airport.
Air transport security is far from perfect, but it's a lot better than none. Please, Mab, just relax and take it easy when you go through security! Think of how much more irritating and inconvenient it would be if you had to take rude orders from an armed hijacker, instead.
(This doesn't count as one of my acts of picking on you.)
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/05/2007 19:01:13 |
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Bummer... you missed the plane.
