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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 14490" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>MWM, you were told, "There's a special place in Heaven for you!"</p><p>What sort of place? It conjures up an image of a shelf somewhere, away from everyone else so you couldn't really mix with the common people.</p><p>What sort of heaven would that be?</p><p></p><p>Dearie, dearie me...</p><p></p><p>And dreamer, I remember the fun & games the school gave you over that eye - definitely add them to the list.</p><p></p><p>Right now I'm cheesed off with our airport security. difficult child 1 lad loaned an old light saber to a friend from church. This was one of the really old ones which were little more than a telescopic plastic tube with a light bulb in it - a glorified torch. The girl was going to Brisbane from Sydney for a conference and there was also going to be a costume party so she also borrowed difficult child 1's Star Wars costume.</p><p></p><p>But the light saber was in her hand luggage and security insisted on confiscating it. Of course, all confiscated items are destroyed.</p><p></p><p>I rang them to complain. Unfortuantely, I don't have the flight details so I can't talk to the idiot who actually thought a Star Wars light saber is a threat, but the fellow I DID speak to said, "If we think it looks like a weapon, it gets confiscated."</p><p>"But why would you think it looks like a weapon? It's a collapsible plastic tube! It doesn't look like any weapon in existence!"</p><p>"Well, you called it a light saber, so it must look like a weapon from somewhere..."</p><p>"It's a weapon from a sci-fi movie, it doesn't exist and everybody knows it! It's a kids toy!" By now I was almost frothing at the mouth. "If you hit someone over the head with it, it would break! There is no way that any part of this toy could be used as a weapon, not even as a threat!"</p><p>I got nowhere, but the upshot of it all is - if these guys think something COULD look like a weapon to someone else, or looks like something that someone else might think looks like something that could be construed as a weapon, it gets confiscated. No rhyme or reason. Now difficult child 3 is worried - will the airport security blokes confiscate his Nintendo DS? It has pictures of weapons on it...</p><p></p><p>As difficult child 1 said, people are more scared of airport security than terrorists.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 14490, member: 1991"] MWM, you were told, "There's a special place in Heaven for you!" What sort of place? It conjures up an image of a shelf somewhere, away from everyone else so you couldn't really mix with the common people. What sort of heaven would that be? Dearie, dearie me... And dreamer, I remember the fun & games the school gave you over that eye - definitely add them to the list. Right now I'm cheesed off with our airport security. difficult child 1 lad loaned an old light saber to a friend from church. This was one of the really old ones which were little more than a telescopic plastic tube with a light bulb in it - a glorified torch. The girl was going to Brisbane from Sydney for a conference and there was also going to be a costume party so she also borrowed difficult child 1's Star Wars costume. But the light saber was in her hand luggage and security insisted on confiscating it. Of course, all confiscated items are destroyed. I rang them to complain. Unfortuantely, I don't have the flight details so I can't talk to the idiot who actually thought a Star Wars light saber is a threat, but the fellow I DID speak to said, "If we think it looks like a weapon, it gets confiscated." "But why would you think it looks like a weapon? It's a collapsible plastic tube! It doesn't look like any weapon in existence!" "Well, you called it a light saber, so it must look like a weapon from somewhere..." "It's a weapon from a sci-fi movie, it doesn't exist and everybody knows it! It's a kids toy!" By now I was almost frothing at the mouth. "If you hit someone over the head with it, it would break! There is no way that any part of this toy could be used as a weapon, not even as a threat!" I got nowhere, but the upshot of it all is - if these guys think something COULD look like a weapon to someone else, or looks like something that someone else might think looks like something that could be construed as a weapon, it gets confiscated. No rhyme or reason. Now difficult child 3 is worried - will the airport security blokes confiscate his Nintendo DS? It has pictures of weapons on it... As difficult child 1 said, people are more scared of airport security than terrorists. Marg [/QUOTE]
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