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I feel, I have to share my recent nasty experience with French airport security, when I recently entered the security area prior to boarding a plane at Le Bourget Airport outside of Paris.
It had been a long wait in the crowded airport with businessmen from all over the world impatiently waiting in line, tapping their feet and constantly checking time on their watches when not checking messages on their electronic devices.
We were all being herded like cattle by tired and bored airport employees. I was sweaty and beginning to think, it could not get any worse. Then I was next in line to the metal detector.
I was pretty sure, I had thought of everything; phone, keys and wallet was packed in the carry-on, which was already passing through the X-ray machine.
I remarked to the visibly annoyed French police and security personnel all around, that I thought is silly for us to constantly go through these security checks even several times within the same airport.
I was at this point visibly pissed and several security officers started getting antsy. A very gruff guard stepped up to me and warned me, that I had to calm down or there would be consequenses. I'm afraid, that I yelled a bit at him at that point and told him, that he could do with his consequences AND the Eiffel Tower. I then turned my back on him and moved on.
After going through the usual hassle of removing shoes and belt, a French airport security officer, who had observed the earlier incident, pointed to my wrist and asked; "Excuse-moi Monsieur, what kind of watch is that......?"
I told him.........................and thats when the problems started!!
Very good :)
It's just a matter of time...
I didn't see it coming ... quality
Boom boom ;)
Hardcore !
Haha, nice one! Thank you.
Is this a joke ?
Excellent punchline. I now avoid French airports like the plague but I remember having a particularly ridiculous argument with a spotty teenager at CDG many years before the liquids ban over a small tube of laundry handwash. To$$ers the lot of them.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Very good :))))
Cheers
Simon
Ralph Waldo Emerson: We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Thanks! That made me laugh out loud!
:-)
Much needed smile at the end of a hard day, merci!
Bravo WatchScout
I can't believe that despite look at the pic before I even started reading the text; I'm impatient like that, I still didn't twig until I got to the end of the post...doh!
Très drôle, Monsieur!
Did not see that one coming.
Quality
Very good, I may get one of those to fox the humourless gits who touch me up every time I go through security and set off their machines due to the metal work in my body.
Hehe got me
Fas est ab hoste doceri
GREAT one Jesper!!!!
Is it a ref. to them sinking the Rainbow Warrior?
That got me trouble in the US, just tranferring in Miami; I did not wánt to go into that country!Originally Posted by Martin123
Fatsos in uniform happy at a chance to push a foreigner about.
I lowered my pants to show the scars where titanium replacement parts went in. Took my boxers down too.
That was befóre 911 gave the kleptocrats the perfect excuse to use fear as an excuse for oppression, so I am not going thataway again.
I bend over backwards to avoid flying. Refuse to go even, like to the US.
Having opted for a slow life some 15 years ago, I cán opt not to fly.
Last time I went I took a handfull of F91Ws as presents for friends. Wrapped like toffees in my hand luggage. I knéw what would happen and thouroughly enjoyed riling the lot all the way up. I do feel véry sorry for those who ´have´ to fly for their jobs though.
Très jolie :-)
Gert
Lol luv it ;-)
Would be even with this on lol
http://www.bombfrog.de/bombfrog/swea...ogo-beidseitig
Boom boom!
Je suppose que vous pensez que c'est drôle, vous des Anglais avec leurs soi-disant auto-depricating sens de l'humour, vous voulez essayer vie à travers le canal de votre part, ou pire encore, que beaucoup qui envahissent la Dordogne et Peirgeaux. Vous ne voudriez pas nous trouver la queue pour aller à Londres. Oh, attends une seconde ...
Very good. Nice watch too, never heard or seen one before until now!
Lol is that a true story ?
Tres good.
Very funny! It reminded me of the time an Iranian friend of mine tried to buy an inflatable model of a KLM liveried 747 at Schipol by saying "I wanna blow up plane."
excellent!
Excellent - I didn't see it coming either
Quoted for posterity!
Bravo! You had us all there mate
Yes...well...I suppose you were hoping you could make the security guy feel a bit of a dick!
I once had to lift my shirt in the queue at HKG to show the security guy the scars on my back from the Ti implant - would have drawn the line at dropping my pants, though.
That sounds like no fun at all.
airport security and airport staff, public servents cosseted, with big ideas and bigger heads, i now only travel when i have to,i book a wheel chair all the time, most of the time i never recieve it, it happened in jfk a few times, now that is some journey.
Very good.
I was poised and ready to provide my thoughts on your behaviour...
Lol very good
Lmao, very good :)
No no, not at all. Just a reference to the airport situation often reported on here and a play on words.
Priceless!!
A good laugh to end the long work week.
Wear that to make extra sure, that you'd land in hot water in a French airport
Okay, now THAT is funny. Only a true WIS would think of doing this.
Regards,
Adam
Thanks.
Supposedly German watches with quite a following at some point.
They have other watches out, but I havent noticed any for a while.
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