Did you pack your own bags?

[SaligoBay]

Yes of course you did.  And could anyone have interfered with your luggage since then?   Well, nobody except the French bomb squad..... have a read!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1367287,00.html

[Dick Smith]

And it's pretty scary that the traveller with the plastique hasn't owned up....

Inspector Clouseau alive and well?

[Mpprh]

[quote]And it's pretty scary that the traveller with the plastique hasn't owned up....Inspector Clouseau alive and well?[/quote]

Hi

now they are home they are probably wondering whether to inject it, or smoke it ?

Peter

[Tresco]

Peter, I was thinking along similar lines 'put that in your pipe and smoke it', etc.

It's a far cry from 'Whiskey Galore' isn't it? 

[Richardbk]

[quote]And it's pretty scary that the traveller with the plastique hasn't owned up....Inspector Clouseau alive and well?[/quote]

thats because it looks like plastercine. Somewhere there is a very happy 4 year old squeezing it through their playdoh apparatus to make star shapped saussages whilst the dog is hooveing up the bits as they fall to the floor.

BTW here's a french version of the story ... http://www.lemonde.fr/web/recherche_articleweb/1,13-0,36-389720,0.html

there is some extra detail, such as the size of the case. Isn't it astounding that they did not note the full details of the suitcase used before doing this.

 

regs

Richard

 

[Hoddy]

.... and it's only about 18 months ago that they blew up a suspect package of ready roll pastry at Toulouse !

Hoddy

[opas]

If it had been `slipped` inside one of Mr Os bags ,it could possibly still be there when he packed for his next trip! earlier in the year he `forgot` to unpack a used bath towel and another trip my caredully picked geranium cuttings along with rooting powder were left to stagnate for about 3 weeks

[opas]

If it had been `slipped` inside one of Mr Os bags ,it could possibly still be there when he packed for his next trip! earlier in the year he `forgot` to unpack a used bath towel and another trip my caredully picked geranium cuttings along with rooting powder were left to stagnate for about 3 weeks

[Val_2]

I love that line. We've been watching Airline on Friday nights (never seen it before) and find it highly amusing and always when the dippy girl at the check in says this. Who in their right mind is going to say otherwise. I adore the stroppy passengers and all the swearing,why don't they read the small print or realise that this is not a normal airline,but only in that you get what you pay for airline.

[Hoddy]

Of course I packed my own bags -so why do I always have this urge to make a facetious comment ?

Well actually, no, but my maid did and I watched her do it !

Hoddy

[opas]

The other question being `has anyone asked you carry any thing for them?`  Hope Piprob declared `Yes Mince pies and crumpets for Mrs Os children......but I dont know them or where they live`

[Richard-R]

Custom's Men ( Sorry People), stopped me at the channel tunnel and asked me if i had more than 10,000€ of luggage. Yes i do..customs man..oh well off you go then. To surreal for words..and this was the French side. Did i pack my own bag's, no never, my wife does both, to split our gear between the two, incase one goes walkies. Yes and that large bootle of Cognac is her's!!!!!!!officer.

[Piprob]

At Carcassonne - yet again - staff took a dim view view of herself and pulled us in to look over the dirty linen.

"We're well known to you," I muttered in my frustration. "Every time you stop us; every time without fail. When will you lose interest in our personal possessions?"

They looked at me. I looked at them. Pip shuffled nervously. There was an uncomfortable silence. Then, at last,  a smile.

"OK" the nearest man said. "We'll just take a quick look." And they did. We were out inside two minutes.

[Renaud]

The question is why do airport staff bother asking you about your luggage. Does not the thought occur that somebody capable of taking a gun, bomb of collection of knives on a plane might not also be capable of telling a lie? Or are potential terrorists inherently truthful and likely to confess all to the check-in person?

Mind you it does not pay to be flippant when answering the trite question “Have you packed...” as recently when a wag answered “Yes, I have a bomb in my holdall”. It resulted in the airport being cleared and a prison sentence for him.

When transferring money from one account to another then pounds to euros I was repeatedly asked by bank staff why I was doing this. Thinkinging about the fate of the airport joker, I meekly reply “Buying house in France, paying the French builders...” etc. I want to say “Well, now you ask, I want to launder the profits from my drug dealing and was thinking of going into the white slave trade”.