tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post5352184731191558005..comments2024-03-28T15:19:12.892-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: A last note for the eveningFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-11434187170108763442010-11-22T11:43:01.917-08:002010-11-22T11:43:01.917-08:00Ditto. I've been through foreign airport secu...Ditto. I've been through foreign airport security. It is <b>much</b> less invasive than ours, unless you are someone who should be screened, in which case it is ratcheted up quickly. <br /><br />Everyday traveler, go through the motions. Excuse me, military aged middle eastern gentleman... please come over here.Phelpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270536870200063563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-70194748239777354342010-11-18T14:51:23.176-08:002010-11-18T14:51:23.176-08:00I don't know -- going through Frankfort, Munic...I don't know -- going through Frankfort, Munich, Amsterdam, Turin, etc... I found it all very much a formality. No more invasive than the US pre 9/11Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-7343469170313000262010-11-18T00:51:59.308-08:002010-11-18T00:51:59.308-08:00In Nairobi's Jomo Kenyata airport, you have to...In Nairobi's Jomo Kenyata airport, you have to put your bags through an x-ray just to get into the building. <br /><br />All well and good, except the operator is usually too busy chatting to a friend to look at the screen.<br /><br />There are then about 3 or 4 more check points before you get onto the plane.<br /><br />London Heathrow has the usual officious little hitlers. Everything had to be put in one bag then five seconds later, laptops etc had to be out again. all shouty and nasty. "It's the law" (no, it's just BAA and their effing monopoly). Heathrow has had dick measuring devices since about 2004. perverts.<br /><br />Got home to Ireland one time and checking my shirt pockets before I put it in the washing machine, I found a collection of flint blades.<br /><br />Not that they'd be as effective an improvised weapon as lots of the stuff in the duty free shops <br /><br />- for any little shit who's that way inclined.Keithnoreply@blogger.com