Actor Ed Harris questioned for 5 hours in Heathrow over knife in hand luggage:
http://www.uk-airport-news.info/heathrow-airport-news-080807b.htm

Security shambles re female frisking in Shannon: http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2005/07/24/story6649.asp

7 year old Lancashire lad mistaken for 39 year old terror-suspect by airport security: http://www.uk-airport-news.info/manchester-airport-news-210807a.htm

Recent security run-in, albeit in Heathrow, and very worrying content re curtailment of freedom: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1717661,00.html

This in the light of BAA getting it’s knuckles rapped by IATA re service levels: http://www.uk-airport-news.info/heathrow-airport-news-100807a.htm

Another reason not to visit Spain (apart from all the Irish & British tattoo place-holders clogging up the Costa's): Irish Independent Sept 07

Good Aussie piss-take of airport security down-under:
Did you notice the sign on the wall in the clip regarding jokes? What kind of world do we now live in? Well I didn’t vote for it, I can tell you that.


IMHO: If you are willing to drink the liquid in question in front of the jumped up failed-cop, I believe you should be allowed to carry it aboard, and that includes lighter fluid.


Top Tip: I’m sure a lot of bin-dipping goes on during quiet times at various airports, so why not taint a toilet requisite you plan to travel with, with a safe but stubborn dye? Then see how many security personnel (or their family members) appear as blue as Pappa Smurf over the following days. I believe this would be particularly effective around the month of December…


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