General discussion on current situation

[Maiden Stone]

Airline security isn't likely to be a priority of any of us for a while.

[KGarrad]

Years ago I used to take my croquet mallet as hand-baggage; and hand it over to the steward/ess.

But then Birmingham Airport stopped me
They said it was a dangerous weapon?

After that episode, I bought a 2-stage, take-down rifle case for the mallet! (It was the right size!!)
The case then contained a mallet, a pair of flat-soled trainers, and a few odds-n-sods.

Every time I went to Jersey, I was stopped at the airport and asked if it was a gun!
I never locked the case! Made it easier to show what was inside

I even painted "Isle of Man Croquet" in big yellow letters on it

[groom]

My sister had a door handle confiscated! She'd had it in her handbag as she'd been trying to find a matching one and forgotten it was there! Not sure what they thought she was going to do with that.

My great niece, when she was 2 and a half, had her toy gun confiscated from her back pack. My niece was so embarrassed as she didn't know she'd slipped it in. 

[Milliepede]

My sister had a door handle confiscated!

Was it a round one from the 1930's? 

[ThrelfallYorky]

I hate to imagine what would emerge from my bag during an unexpected search!

[jillruss]

Talking of knobs...what a prime example of door furniture is Dominic Cummings?

I'd pretty much got to 95% sure that the government was treating us like mugs, now I'm at 100%. We're being turned into a police state where everyone else has to do what they're told but the elite can snigger into their pay packets and do what they like.

Enough! 

[ThrelfallYorky]

 
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[pharmaT]

Talking of knobs...what a prime example of door furniture is Dominic Cummings?

I'd pretty much got to 95% sure that the government was treating us like mugs, now I'm at 100%. We're being turned into a police state where everyone else has to do what they're told but the elite can snigger into their pay packets and do what they like.

Enough! 

If I did what he did I would be up for a disciplinary and the whole country would not have had a clue what I had done.  I wouldn't do it though because I don't want to be responsible for others dying.  Incidentally I was told that if I had a sense of responsibility I would leave my child alone to go to work so that to me makes them even bigger hypocrites.

[Redroger]

Last year I bought a brass H0 scale steam loco boiler from USA for use in a model. It duly arrived re wrapped in border force adhesive tape. It had been opened and resealed. Not surprising really. It was the shape and weight of a small hand gun!
My wife expected a visit from them, but I said if it had been a gun they would have visited at 2am unannounced by smashing the door down, and I would only have seen it during interrogation.
Been very circumspect about the shape of things I have bought since. But pleased they were doing their job properly.