Americans targeted at Owens Airport?

[Drew Sailbum]

FWIW, very few of the baggage screeners are Owen Roberts are Caymanian. The company that holds that contract primarily employs expats.

 

[dmoore19]

I did not ask them where they came from. I encountered them as employees at the airport, I assume the live on the island. However, your point is taken.

 

[The Laconic]

I don't fully understand. Is the assumption that the police placed the bullet in his luggage? That is some high risk behaviour for $800, but if true would be pretty scary.

Unless they're under intensive observation by Caymanian Internal Affairs, the risk is what, exactly?

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As an experiment I took a bag that was drenched in GSR (I used it as a shooting bag) thru airport security about a dozen times. It was swabbed at least 3 times and came back "clean" every time.

I've accidentally taken pepper spray onto a plane twice, once on an international flight. I figured I was pushing my luck at that point, so I ditched it. Surely the cunning agents of TSA would catch me the next time?

 

[Doctorfish]

Why in the world would anyone be naive enough or stupid enough to try to take pepper spray, ammo or guns onto an airplane. If you get caught, you deserve what you get.
One episode at an airport like GC means that the people doing inspections will be hyper vigilant for the next 6 months making every traveller who comes through miserable.

 

[Willar]

If it were someone dropping a single bullet into a bag to cause trouble for someone, I would suspect it was an unhappy porter or baggage handler who didn't receive a tip. It's amazing how mad they can get for being snubbed. It would be an easy way for them to "get even" with the cheapskate. It's why I make sure I have plenty of $5 bills and hand them out easily... it means a whole lot more to them so I get great service and many smiles.

 

[mikeycanuk]

I've heard that those who get the SSSS random designation are treated quite poorly in the islands.

My 14 year old son got SSSS when we checked in Toronto for our LAX flight and I think he had the explosive wipe test, that's it.


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[AggieDiver]

FWIW, I think it is FAR easier to believe that an extra round of ammunition stayed in the bag that had been previously used as a range bag and was missed by TSA on the way down, than to believe there are people somewhere on Grand Cayman walking around with illegal ammunition in their pockets just waiting to drop one in a bag when they don't get a good tip. I realized after I got down there and was packing my backpack to head back that I had made it through TSA screening with a large bottle of sunscreen in there that was much larger than 3oz. Never even got asked about it by TSA. I was however, asked about the "fish hooks" in my backpack on the way out of Grand Cayman. Turns on my Ipod headphones with loops for the back of my ear look just like large fish hooks to an X-Ray machine.

 

[agilis]

I suspect that most Americans do not realize the severity with which many nations regard even a single round of ammunition, whatever the caliber. I know that in Jamaica having one live round in your possession is a prison offence. It's common to read, in Jamaican newspaper accounts, that a suspect was arrested with one pistol and three or four rounds of ammunition.

 

[Russoft]

Airport security doesn't have a sense of humor in any part of the world I've visited. To them, nothing is an honest mistake. It's a sinister plot.

Check that you've completely emptied everything from your bag before packing it for a flight. A live round is a pretty mundane object out in the country. Not so in the city or internationally.

 

[bvaughn97]

What a bunch of nonsense over a single bullet. It amazes me how scared the vast majority of this world is conditioned to be over the simplest, most harmless things. A single bullet is useless - unless it's in the hands of MacGyver or James Bond who can construct a firing pin and a barrel out of a paper clip and some toilet paper. And to classify a bullet as a firearm is an absolute asinine policy. But, I guess that's what liberalism from the UK will get you - nonsensical laws and over-reactive policy.