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    airport security

    Going through manchester airport yesterday, just before the metal detector i took everything metal out of my jeans and put it into my jacket, took off my belt, put it all through the x-ray machine and walked through the metal detector which didnt go off. i was walking over to get my bag when i was asked to step aside to be patted down. it was weird i thought. whats all that about?
    Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruairi
    . whats all that about?
    Your a terrorist!

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    Randon checks. Every x amount of people get stopped and searched. Had the same as a staff member in the 3 major london airports. Always subject to randon checks. You just got used to it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruairi
    whats all that about?
    Usually they ask me, "Is that a gun in your pocket?" before I get the pat down.
    Have Boot Disk, will travel

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    I think its cause i was wearing a gaa jersey, they must have thought i was a redneck yokel intent on brining down the "foreign" game from within
    Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peadar
    Usually they ask me, "Is that a gun in your pocket?" before I get the pat down.
    Pity its just a mars bar you plant there so you can get a quick feel

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eire06
    Pity its just a mars bar
    They don't call them "fun size" for nothing!
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    Always subject to randon checks
    more like randy. he might have been a bit of a back door man, and fancied a feel, d'ye know if you were that way inclined they would be great perks of the job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paul_oshea
    he might have been a bit of a back door man
    No doubt you've come across him on a night out so then, Paul.
    Have Boot Disk, will travel

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    No doubt you've come across him on a night out so then, Paul
    ssssh i told ye that in the strictest confidence, after the pm you sent me revealing your side. thats what pm'ing is for

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    Quote Originally Posted by paul_oshea
    thats what pm'ing is for
    Yeah, sorry, I remember that now.
    It was just when you explained PM and S&M I got a bit confused.


    We've totally desecrated this thread, by the way.
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    Yeah, sorry, I remember that now
    It was just when you explained PM and S&M I got a bit confused.
    LOL, ya i know we have. But it was the pork pie that got me confused!!!

    me not having "eaten" one yet, but you having had plenty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
    I had my Christmas presents opened at Stansted once. Crystal comes up funny on the scanner. Throw an Irish passport into the equation and you're left with a lot of wrapping to do . . . again.
    They advise that you dont travel with wraped presents now. I was always a bit surprised at how easy it was to build up trust with the security folk. As a result, im never shocked by all the newspaper undercover stories about reporters posing as workers etc. A different world

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    I had had to take my shoes off in Dublin Airport last summer!
    We're not arrogant, we're just better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schumi
    I had had to take my shoes off in Dublin Airport last summer!
    Coming back from the match in Paris the asked me to take off my kneehigh boots as I was unzipping them they saw my stripy pink and black socks laughed and told me to keep the boots on..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schumi
    I had had to take my shoes off in Dublin Airport last summer!
    I didn't know they did that anywhere outside the US.

    I was also asked to take off shoes exiting through Boston Airport last year & i seriously thought guy was joking.


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    Everybody was made take off their shoes when I was heading through security in Dublin airport on Sunday morning. Thing there's a bit of over-reaction to that EU spot test thing that happened their the other week. Coming back through Heathrow was nothing compared to it.

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