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Title: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, September 18, 2006, 07:03:07 AM

linky (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2000074.html?menu=)

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Man, 29, passes for toddler

A businessman flew from Britain to Amsterdam on his two-year-old daughter's passport.

Mark Coshever, 29, was allowed through airport security and on to a plane after picking up the wrong passport at home.

He did not realise the mistake until his easyJet flight from Luton touched down at Amsterdam, reports the Mirror.

Mark, 29, said: "I was shocked that I could fly to a major international airport on a child's passport."

Airline staff had twice examined his passport and failed to notice the photo was that of toddler Alicia.

Mark, from Rayleigh, Essex, added: "Fortunately I had my driving licence, which has my photo."

A spokesman for easyJet said: "Staff misread Mr Coshever's passport and have been disciplined."

I can imagine what was going on...

Staff member 1: Are you sure this is right? The name says Alicia and this is a man, and he doesn't look anything near two years old!

Staff member 2: Sssshhh! As long as he doesn't wear a turban and a beard he isn't a threat.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: scottws on Monday, September 18, 2006, 07:27:43 AM

That's pretty crazy.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: idolminds on Monday, September 18, 2006, 08:46:53 AM

Maybe they thought he had a sex change and didnt get the passport updated yet...

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, September 18, 2006, 08:54:33 AM

That was silly but I laughed anyway. Still smiling. :P

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Ace_O_Spades on Monday, September 18, 2006, 01:48:46 PM

Tyler Durden - "Ah... the illusion of safety"

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Cobra951 on Monday, September 18, 2006, 02:51:37 PM

I'm sure the Von Trapp family singers get through security easier than Omar the tent maker. But this is crazy.  No one read any part of that passport.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: scottws on Monday, September 18, 2006, 05:32:44 PM

When I flew to Mexico, they didn't even check our credentials at all.  On the plane, they make you fill out this visa form, which Jennie and I did.  But we accidentally mixed them up.  I had hers and she had mine.

The customs agent in Cancun took her birth certificate and my immigration form and stamped the form.  Then I came up and he took Jennie's form and as I was digging in my bag for my birth certificate, he just waved it off as he stamped her form.

I couldn't believe that.  I mean sure, I can see that Mexico wouldn't be trying super hard to keep Americans out for any reason, but I thought it was really lax anyway.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, September 18, 2006, 10:34:58 PM

I wonder how long it will take terrorists to realize that they are being racially profilied so intensely, that it is just easier to cut their beards and try to look more American for one final trip

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 09:22:00 AM

Pug, isn't cutting off your beard in a muslim society the equivalent of cutting off your balls? I mean, you aren't considered a man if you don't have a beard, right? Us americans know so much about the muslim culture  ;)

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: scottws on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 09:36:21 AM

If I remember correctly, the 9/11 hijackers didn't have beards.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 09:41:03 AM

haha no it isn't anything like that. Keeping a beard is a 'sunnah', which means to try and do as the prophet did. It isn't mandatory.

edit:

Corrected spelling. Something is wrong with my brain.

Title: Re: How is that for security at the airport?
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 01:51:36 PM

Quote from: scottws on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 09:36:21 AM

If I remember correctly, the 9/11 hijackers didn't have beards.

Yeah, and those guys cut off a lot more than just their balls.  They blew themselves up.

You mean "prophet", I'm sure, Pug.