[Magdalen] groaner

[Simon Kershaw]

A couple of years ago I flew from the Uk to Copenhagen for business. On the way home I got stopped at security. In the pocket of my coat was a Leatherman knife. The very nice Danish security looked me up and down and said, "You don't want to lose this do you? Put it in your hand luggage, go back to check-in, go to the head of the queue and tell them security sent you, and check it in; then come back here to the head of the queue, tell them security sent you." So I did. That's what you call common sense, I guess. And lots of courtesy.

But I had, of course, travelled all the way out to Copenhagen, through security at Stansted Airport, without the knife being noticed at all.

On previous trips I had always very carefully taken it out of my coat pocket and stuck it in my checked-in case. Just this once I had forgotten.

simon

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Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
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> On 25 Mar 2017, at 16:23, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was bringing my mother-in-law back east to join a retirement community,
> and we flew from Tucson to Pittsburgh. At some point afterwards, Helen was
> searching her purse and came up with a little pen knife none of us had ever
> seen before. "Now how did that get in there?" she wondered. After a while
> it hit me that someone knew he was going to "get into trouble," and to
> avoid that just dropped the knife into someone else's pocket, no doubt
> giggling at the prospect of seeing an older lady wrestled to the ground by
> TSA goons.
> 
> They never caught it, obviously.
> 
> Inspires confidence in our security personnel.