Airport Security

[VERTICAL REF]

...THAT was the most "terroistic" looking oxygen bottle I have ever seen...AL-KAY-DA and Bin Ladin sticker's were all over it...whats a guy to do? :huh:

Vibrator, just about time for another 3 hour tour no? 😉


Too bad Hogie is the only one that can apprecieate the humour in that other one.. 🙄

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Bruised

I went through roughly the same thing in Sudbury only it was prior 9-11. Land in Sudbury, went in terminal, used the washroom, asked security guard to let me out on the ramp only to be told that "only pilots are allowed on the ramp" It must have taken me at least 3 minutes to convince the 60 year old security guard that I was a student pilot and that I brought the tiny little helicopter to the airport. I must admit it was kinda humourous watching him keep his eye on me until I got into the enstrom. 😀

 

[Harmonic_Vibe]

Hey VR, I'm probably coming home to the land of the "Snap-frozens", as my Aussie engineer calls us, soon. And I may end up on your side of the rocks... I think a three-hour tour might be in order... except this time I don't want you unscathed!!!



P.S. Hopefully Skully will be around also...

 

[LDP]

Not too long ago in Timmins, we landed, as we were waiting around the helicopter for fuel the security guy drove up and said hello. We then went inside for a pop. When it came time for us to go back to the helicopter the same security guy asked me who I was, what I was flying, made me show him ID, and then escorted us to the ramp. The funny thing was he didnt make the other 3 people I was with show ID !!! :unsure:

 

[412driver]

going through security at LAX with my carry-on, my laptop and my bag of duty free. this army security person tells me that i am allowed only ONE piece of carry on. i refer her to the sign directly behind her that says "allowable: one piece personal (my carry on), one piece business (my laptop)" and if i can't buy duty free close the f#$$'n shops!! she doesn't blink and says "one piece only".

i take a deep breath and politely ask what i am supposed to do with my extra items? she tells me to go to the gate and have the agent check in my extra bags. "oh, ok" i say, "i'll do just that. thank you." and went on my way.

hey, you just don't argue with a black woman holding a machine gun!!!!!

 

[bag swinnger]

Oh yeah, I have some stories. Involving borders, guns, dogs and attitudes but It would just take to long to type them out, so lets just say that I would personally enjoy squeezeing the life out of this Bin ladden character. :down:

 

[Heli Ops]

The apes they have working the terminals at LAX are so shortchanged in the brain department its unbelievable. On one of my recent trips to the US I had 200 rolls of slide film, in their plastic containers, inside the sealed box they come in, inside the plastic film that they are wrapped in. Now when I went through the x ray machine they asked me why I was carrying so many rolls of film and what did I do for a job. You would have thought that seeing the two camera bodies, the three lenses and the tripod would have given them some indication.

But no, they asked again even though I pointed out the other items. Now get this, they made me unwrap the packages of film, unseal each one of the boxes, remove the actual roll of film from the plastic container and then they decided to test each one of them with their explosives machine. So it took them 35 mins to rub their little piece of cloth over each roll and put it into their machine. Surprise surprise it came back negative on each one. They must have though old Been Laid Recently owned Fuji film and tampered with the film when it was made.

Talk about morons. :down: :down:

Heli Ops

 

[Harmonic_Vibe]

LAX was where some chick asked me "Could anyone have placed something in your luggage without your knowledge sir?". I respond "If it was without my knowledge I wouldn't know... would I?". She says (sternly), "That's why we ask sir!"

But examining 200 rolls of film... holy f@#k... how did you keep your cool?

HV

 

[beltdrive]

630 in the morning Edmonton I got the instructor and the student..... Sir I got a reading of his boots.... tell him to take them off and send them through the x ray.....Sir I got a reading from his belt......make him take it of and put it through the xray.... Sir I got a reading form his pants................. 45 minutes later......

 

[cap]

What do you expect from someone being paid minmum wage? They get told what to do and what to say and if they don't do all that, they loose that mimum paid job and someone else assumes it. I've been asked the same questions and answer "No" because I keep a constant eye on my luggage that stays with me. Sit down at Pearson Airport in Toronto for awhile and have a look at those nationalities passing by you and I got no problem with the security. I don't think Ace Bailey of the Edmonton Oilers would have disageed with that statement seconds before the body-checked the side of the WTC tower.

It is not as idiotic as flying into "Squirrel Town" Canada where there's town of 250 people with one dirt strip. Around that airport will be a chain link fence and someone will give you the code to punch into the buttons on the gate. .......so your engineer can go do his maintenance and join the mosquitos, black-flies and "bull-dogs that are awaiting him nightly. I can only assume that "the powers-that-be" assume that Osama's gang does not have nor has heard of something called bolt-cutters or wire-cutters. I can also go down to the drinking water supply in that same hamlet and drop a vial of whatever I choose into their lake or resevoir and the only thing stopping me in the majority of cases will be being attacked by some wild animal.

 

[duf]

Cap-- Pretty Ridiculous, but true

I live in a City, (border town) We call it, 'Little Kuwait'
Men and women's livelihood is based around Petrochemical Industry here. Refineries are everywhere... You can walk virtually undetected around the plants... It would be way too easy for a terrorist to sabotage. NO ONE is watching you here.
Maybe it's a timebomb.. but no one is lifting a finger about it.
Yet when I cross the border to the US to go shopping or out to dinner, the border guards are way too itchy to grease up their latex gloves if you get the drift...
You wanna yell " Hey! You already F***ed up!"

 

[Over-Talk]

The Canadian Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre said in an interview during the opening of the ICAO Conference in Montreal that even though security is a top prority at airports, maybe the pendulum has swung too far, as line-ups are sometimes too long, (played yesterday on CBC Radio News).

Maybe he has been reading these posts and changes are coming. Well done guys.

 

[cap]

If poor 'ol Jean LaPierre gotta visit this website for ideas on airport, border and national security, then Canada is in a whole mess of " doggie dew-dew". 😀

 

[Charles W.]

Hey guys, tomorrow I am coming back to Canada I can't wait to get home.

And to add to my excitement I see we have a Transport Minister that can read...Wow things have really changed since I left.

Rev. C.W.

 

[cap]

Doesn't make any difference if the Transport Minister can read or not Charles. The people that "really run" MOT will keep him informed. 😀