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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:35 AM
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Airport Reveals Bizarre Actions By Passengers Regarding Liquid Ban (FUNNY)
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Security staff at Manchester Airport say they are still having to confiscate thousands of litres of liquids every week despite repeated reminders of new security restrictions which mean passengers are only allowed to take a small number of 100 mls liquids through security in sealable, transparent bags.

And the rules are driving some passengers to extreme lengths to try to get their over-sized liquids through security in their hand luggage.

One passenger was so incensed at having his deodorant confiscated that he proceeded to publicly empty his bladder of liquid in a plastic bag in protest at the legislation.

A man with four bottles of frozen water who claimed they were solids and exempt from the rules.

A man who was told he couldn't take through a bottle of vodka so drank the entire bottle in front of security staff. He was later removed from the flight for being drunk.

A woman who insisted that her two bottles of wine were not liquid but "fine wines".

And one man who was having a can of shaving foam confiscated and protested by squirting it all over the x-ray and barringer machines. The clean-up operation took almost half an hour.

http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/latest/display.var.1186744.0.airport_reveals_bizarre_actions_by_passengers.php

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:40 AM
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1. lol -- it's not like they don't KNOW!!!
that's what makes this funny.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:48 AM
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2. And the winner is. . .
The guy with the ice.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:59 AM
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3. He was right! As a solid it should have been excempt!
The security people CHEATED!

Cheaters!

:rofl:
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 08:37 PM
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4. They flunked chemistry, or never took it in the first place.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 08:39 PM
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5. Are you sure that "vodka" wasn't "scotch" and the "man" wasn't "matcom"?
:P
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 12:35 AM
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6. I love it! (nt)
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