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| Originally Posted by telsa Just come back from a weeks diving in Norway. I decided to take my Metalsub in my cabin baggage cos it's a expensive bit of kit.
In transit through Oslo airport after my cabin baggage was screened I was pulled aside and asked to open my bag. The official pulled the battery tank out of my bag and said that it was heavy enough to be used as a weapon and that it would be confiscated.
I objected of course. It was only after much pleading with a senior official (and after they checked it for explosives) did they allow me through with it.
I packed it in my checked in luggage on the way back!
So I guess the moral of the story is, pack your torches in your checked in luggage cos if they decide it could be used as a weapon you might lose it! |
Similar thing happened to me in italy. Started in Genoa where they insisted I repack the bag and put the torch in the hold. I changed planes in Rome where they refused to load the baggage off one plane onto the other until I had been pulled out the terminal and escourted across the airport to open the bag in a "controlled" zone. After quite a long chat they let me carry on and told me that I should have had the torch in the hand baggage so it could be examined. Needless to say I did not bother to delay the flight any longer by suggesting that they talked to Genoa about their advice.
Now that the threat of terrorism is part of our everyday lives I think we will just have to put up with this sort of thing. When I think of all the people whose live are affected every day by the actions taken to prevent terrorism, I do wonder if the terrorist have not already won a major victory by creating so much inconvienience.?
