My encounter with Airport security

'Harry said:
This.

You need to leave your bubble more often. Being put on a list for failing an airport scan...dear god :o.

Smarten up.
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Lol I was leaving my bubble, hence why I was at an airport! I do get around, honest.

Also I'm white/British to whoever brought up race. It was more where does my information go? Seeing as it was a negative swab and they still keep lots of details on record, just wondered what people's thoughts were on if that happened to them.
 
Meh i don't really think there is a lot you can do, guess your details will go on a database and if your stopped again you'll get a more thorough search maybe.
 
False positives are very common in almost all tests/detection. Does the OP think all forms of cancer diagnosis should be stopped just because the occasional result comes back as positive when in fact the person does not have cancer?
 
Booner! said:
Also I'm white/British to whoever brought up race. It was more where does my information go? Seeing as it was a negative swab and they still keep lots of details on record, just wondered what people's thoughts were on if that happened to them.
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And that is a reasonable question
 
rubberduck said:
False positives are very common in almost all tests/detection. Does the OP think all forms of cancer diagnosis should be stopped just because the occasional result comes back as positive when in fact the person does not have cancer?
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Nope, it's more that they do a swab test on a bag which goes in a contaminated tray, can read false on the second reading and then lots of my details go into the unknown with no knowledge of why they are kept or what is done with them.

I have no problem with random testing if the method/data collection makes sense.
 
Rotty said:
:eek:you take cheques? :p
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Cheque is good :D

When I went to Dublin for new year the security was quite nice. I walked through fine and the guy said to me "oh she looks like trouble, maybe have to check her out" referring to my wife. I said yeah, she is a big troublemaker, he just laughed and asked where we were going and I told him. His reply was well don't drink too much Guiness as the Iron may set off the alarms on the way back.

Suffice to say my wife walked through fine too, no bleeps, no scans etc.

First time I've even seen the customs security with a good sense of humour tbh.
 
Slating them because they were following a protocol? Hmmm... This is why you're not in power lol.
 
I'm brown.

I fly 2-3 times a year. In the UK everytime I am stopped, searched, shoes swabbed and bag swabbed, shoes separately through xray machine. BTW this includes walking through with no beeps in the first place.

I get it, they need to stereotype me, I'm not that bothered.

Overseas airports I am fine and just go through with all other white people like Dubai.
 
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I wouldn't worry. I would be a little more concerned that some explosives had actually gone through there are some point though. Although someone wearing a jacket that they go shooting or have handled such substances may contaminate it.
 
delta0 said:
I wouldn't worry. I would be a little more concerned that some explosives had actually gone through there are some point though. Although someone wearing a jacket that they go shooting or have handled such substances may contaminate it.
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+1

Can only imagine the distress it brought going through that experience. But honestly, if/when you travel again I doubt it'll cause any problems. If it does you'll probably be asked to explain what happened, with the end result you were let go after you had nothing on you etc.
 
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Ace Modder said:
Cheque is good :D

When I went to Dublin for new year the security was quite nice. I walked through fine and the guy said to me "oh she looks like trouble, maybe have to check her out" referring to my wife. I said yeah, she is a big troublemaker, he just laughed and asked where we were going and I told him. His reply was well don't drink too much Guiness as the Iron may set off the alarms on the way back.

Suffice to say my wife walked through fine too, no bleeps, no scans etc.

First time I've even seen the customs security with a good sense of humour tbh.
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I had a laugh in the US when I couldn't do my trousers up and the belt was holding them together. I had been eating too much in the US and security whilst checking me grabbed my belt and shook it and mentioned my trousers were undone. I said I had eaten too much and he laughed out loud.
 
delta0 said:
I had a laugh in the US when I couldn't do my trousers up and the belt was holding them together. I had been eating too much in the US and security whilst checking me grabbed my belt and shook it and mentioned my trousers were undone. I said I had eaten too much and he laughed out loud.
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haha! :). When I went back to the US (I had been there about 6/7months previous to a different state) he said wished he could get some time off to travel and was giving me pointers of where to go etc!
 
You may have been inconvenienced, but just think about that poor security manager who has to go home tonight and choose whether to feed his starving wife and child, or let his brother in law freeze to death. Glory to Arstotzka!
 
I went to the airport a while ago. They swabbed my bag and detected explosive PETN. They asked me questions about my job while taking out and scanning everything in my carefully-packed bag. I don't have any explosive PETN in my job. I asked them questions about their sniffer device and after perhaps 5 minutes was on my way.

Harrowing.
 
HAz said:
What is your skin colour and faith as im guessing this is more to do with it?
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If you're non white, you're most likely to be searched. It's something that most non white people have to accept. Being Asian my self. I know i'll get searched in airports etc...
 
Your information is stored in/on your passport and they already have access to your details and biometric information so I don't see what difference it makes?
 
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