Can anyone remember when we used to be a nation of common sense?
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A spokeswoman for Gatwick Airport said:
‘Items including firearms and items with the appearance of firearms are prohibited”
The item was purchased from the Royal Signals Museum shop.
This does have a serious side, nonsense like this discredits the very notion of security, when airport security officers become a laughing stock their credibility takes a nosedive and allows us all to take our eyes off the ball.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/stephaniegutmann/100021395/will-americans-be-able-to-israelify-their-airports-no-theyll-mess-it-up/
Almost a year old, but still as sensible.
We arent allowed to be sensible, because any sensible policey is open to accusations of something’ism.
So we go “by the book”.
The book says no guns, so no guns.
Dont feel too bad, in a similar incident in the US, they confiscated GI Joes hand grenades as well.
And if something does happen, heaven help the passengers waiting to catch their flights.
I think it was a year or two ago that a passenger at Stansted foolishly tried to check in with an inert grenade in his bag. Result? The entire airport was closed down for many hours.
Just think that through for a moment….the grenade had been discovered. The risk that someone else might try to smuggle something else through was no greater after this incident than before it. So why hold up the rest of the day’s flights? It makes no logical sense at all.
I wonder what they’d make of a kid with a 1/76 scale tank or fighter bomber in his pocket; probably get gunned down quick-smart. God bless the airport security services; I will sleep bettter tonight because of this.
I was once stopped with a couple of other soldiers at the Danish border, trying to cross with three real SA80s – apparently you need some kind of licence for that kind of thing, and passports too; I had thought we were all living in one big EU happy family.
The border police eventually gave up and let us in after we had assured them we weren’t the Germans invading again.
You weren’t driving a Stally were you Brian!
Brian,
“I was once stopped with a couple of other soldiers at the Danish border, trying to cross with three real SA80s”
lol quite a jump from that toy there to the real job, L85′s O_o no wonder you were stopped.
lol had a good laugh at that one TD, but your final sentence is right…it does dullen the edge.
At least the detector detected something…..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8481774.stm
I’ve got a story about a mini bus full of airsoft guns, ghillie suits and spotty teenagers wearing camo being given a good going through by police. I don’t supppose anyone knows where one could pick up a real L96?
Mike, Euan
Shortly after 9/11 I was sat in a shed at a certain large RAF base waiting for my flight to Germany for a major exercise of the ARRC HQ. WRAF “Flight Attendants” came around telling us to remove bayonets from our webbing and shove them into Bergens that would be stowed in the hold, also any penknives, or multi-tools. This was because the RAF had to follow CAA rules on knives and things in the cabin.
This all sounds entirely reasonable,
until you realize that they did not stop us boarding with our assault rifles and general purpose machine guns…….
(OK, no ammo, but really, on an RAF trooping flight….)