Re: FBOFW 9/30/05 Canada

Ok, let's get back to the subject. This is Canada after all, no USA
references please!

Visaman has spoken!
"bllbickel" <billbickel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Michael Sears wrote:
>> Bobcat wrote:
>> >
>> > I had less luck another time at the Statue of Liberty, where Security
>> > grabbed up a tiny pen knife I'd stupidly forgotten to leave at home.
>> > They
>> > said there was no way I could reclaim it. You lose some, you...etc.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> I had the same thing happen here in Albany, NY. The nearest Post Office
>> to where I work is in the State Capital, about 20 feet past the security
>> checkpoint. I once forgot and left my Swiss Army Knife in my pocket. The
>> security people said I would have to throw it away to get in. They
>> wouldn't even hold it for me to retrieve on my way out, despite the fact
>> that I would be within line-of-sight of them the entire time I was in
>> the building.
>
> I doubt this is official policy as much as it is some jerk getting off
> on the power he suddenly has over other people: A couple of years ago,
> when I was picking up my teenage son at Newark Airport, it somehow
> didn't occur to me that going to an arrivals gate required the same
> security procedure as going to a departure gate, so I had my Swiss Army
> Knife keychain in my pocket. The security people offered to hold onto
> it for me while I waited for the flight to arrive. Absolutely no
> problem.
>
> Bill Bickel
> http://www.comicsidontunderstand.com
> http://mysterybooks.allinfoabout.com
>


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