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I have just got home and have been yet again embrassed by customs asto the contents of my hand luggage, as I dont take any other luggage everything I buy has to come with me on board and Im so careful with what I buy for gifts... but some thing must of caused a panic as my bag was pulled to pieces ... first came out the dogs present then the cats , all my electric bits, camera , I pods , mobile phone and saterlite,then all the herbs and spices that I brought my self from the market ....none of this interested him.... finally he found it the thing that caused the fuss ...... a big snail shaped metal door stop that weighed a ton and id lugged it around all day so I was going to be miffed if he took it away ....Up to then Id had a joke with him saying cadeau pour moi chien, cadeau pour ma chat , cadeau pour moi ...... he weighed it in his hand and said caeau for votre mari ?? Then took it to show all his mates before deciding I could take it..... and I was laughed through customs once more ...is it just me ?
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Just to be clear, was this Security (on departure) or 'Customs' on arrival ...... and was it in France or the UK?

Whatever, either group on whichever side has the absolute right to search your hand baggage. What they don't have the right to do is turn it in to a group joke and if they really did that, you should complain in writing. 

.............. or are you gilding the lilly a bit?   

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I wa laughing along with them as the contents of my bag is always a little bizzare ...Im not your normal holiday maker ...I thought it showed a great sence of hunour from the french customs man when he weighed the iron snail in his hand and said cadeau pour votre mari ?....

I wasnt being very serious...hence why I put it in the lighter side !!
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My mum always took her potato peeler when visiting family and friends, reckoned after 30 years of use, nothing matched it and we took too much peel off the spuds. The only time they came by plane, it was consigned to the suitcase in the hold otherwise I dread to think what they would have made of it and to confiscate it would have caused WW3
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Last flight back to Uk was to collect a car. Fed up with buying ANOTHER warning triangle and fluo vest, I took my own ones with me in hand luggage (Ryanair from Carcassonne). The security chap confiscated the plastic warning triangle. Incase I hijacked the plane with it, I suppose?

I couldnt help but notice that it never went into the bin for confiscated items, but was placed on the floor next to it...... I would bet it found its way into the guards car later on.

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