Christian Lanciai
I was also caught once just because a computer had found in me 'a perfect profile for a terrorist'. They searched me a number of times and even brought out the checked in and sealed up luggage but found only books, books, books... They still kept believing the computer rather than me...
2007-05-20

kath
sorry you had to through this ... it is hard to all of a sudden go from innocently travelling on holiday turning into a terrorist ... you made a good poem of it... with all the funny edges to be found in such a situation well done ....

safety is a tricky buisness ... I do not envy the security people .... I would be a nervous wreck working there .. Imagine one makes the wrong desicion .....

...you did a great job telling this story... as always I felt I was almost present .....
2007-05-19

Rik
Very funny and you paint such a good picture of it too! It's all getting out of hand i think. My X wife (who i hasten to add is still a very good friend of mine) had her box of pastel fruit gums searched. No kidding some heavy in a uniform put his fat finger in the box and shoved them all around. We both had trouble in stopping ourselves laughing. But one of the funniest things i witnessed was, strangely enough in Sweden to, was a security guard who tripped over a cable, pulling out the power lead of their two brand new shiny and very expensive xray machines. Was his face a picture lol.

Thanks again for the laughs.
2007-05-19

lol this made me feel so much better, after my detainment in 199??? for hashish bombs!lol Nice one mike!rofl

Tai, glad you made it a 'one that got away' story!lol
2007-05-19

Elle
As someone who is constantly back and forth travelling I do get this so much lol. At least you guys don't get the butch lesbian - 5 stone heavier than you, fiddling in your bra - But its for our safety and that is what is important - Love the amusing angle Michael

Emma x
2007-05-19

Kathy Lockhart
now if you would have packed me in their instead of that 'priest' at least you wouldn't had to go through it all alone. : )
What a story and your ability to translate it into poetry is one of your many many talents. No wonder I love this man! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyb
2007-05-19

Phyllis J. Rhodes
Holy Cow!!! If you can wait just a minute while I control my laughter, I will feel quite sympathetic toward your ordeal. There, now, How awful for you. I'll bet you were terribly embarrassed. Everyone was probably looking at you and wondering how you got a priest in your bag. He must have been a leprechaun. No, you were going to Sweden so he must have been a Gnome, or
do they come from Switzerland? Anyway evidently YOU look like an international terrorist at least one day a year!
2007-05-18

:-)
I'm sure, hero, that even if I tried to smuggle a priest out of the country in my bag, it would certainly not fail to arouse suspicions at the airport. I almost can see the titles: "AlienQaida member arrested!"
Hmm... I wonder which priest I might choose.
... Father Ralph?...
Or maybe even Georg Gänswein, the pope's personal secretary. He is cute, I've been told...
;-)
2007-05-18

F.i.in.e Moods
oh that must have been nervewracking, to then irritating... a friend has had similar experience at the airport - airport officers actually called my home to make sure i was expecting my friend! lol like you say, what does an international terrorist look like anyway? i understand the measures but they take it a tad bit too far eh? good text... i really could just imagine being there... *hugs* xx
2007-05-18