Question and Answer (a game)

[XJae]

hmmm. got a good one...

tsa at newark international...
on a trip to ginnie springs, we got stopped at the x-ray,
no explanation, just a hold on sir and lots of walkie talkie talk
while my bro's pelican case is under the screen...

you'll have to wait sir, wait for what... (a little explanation would be nice)
half hour at least for the port authority police to show up...
and another 15 min for them to do a physical inspection,
then a ok you can go now.

so i ask the officer what's going on?, it is very apparent that the tsa people
(at least 5 by now) don't know their a$$ from their elbow, and he says they
thought there was an uzi in there. a what? an uzi, sir.

what is in there? you have to wonder...
its a sea and sea camera, strobe, tray and two lenses.
you have got to be kidding me. an uzi is a hell of a lot bigger and heavier.
(i had one under my desk at my first job in brooklyn - bad neighborhood)

anyway, we were kinda ticked off but walked it off cause this was shortly after
9/11 and everyone had itchy fingers.

i probably would have forgotten about it by now if we didnt miss the plane
by 5 minutes. a simple 2.5 hour flight to fla, turned into a 14 hour fiasco.

i never jumped a border, but i did jump a train turnstile once in east germany
to get back to berlin.

next person, same question...

 

[baltimoron]

I have jumped the border into Egypt and Jordan many a time, sice I used to live about a 20 minute walk in the desert for both.... once I got caught when I was eight.... the police picked me up. I had to wait at the border station for them to call the Israeli Embassy, and then for my mom to pick me up... she wasn't very pleasant.

any other travelling stories (they can be horror stories too...)?

 

[crpntr133]

OK now I don't feel stupid about Feb, 1. I figured it was something that I just wasn't seeing.

Almost didn't get back in the states last spring coming from a cruise. My tickets for the airline had Walter (my birth name) on them and my license has Wally (my nickname). Luckily I had a passport and another ID that had Walter. Rest assured that I will be changing the name on my license.

NEXT

 

[baltimoron]

the only time I ever got pulled over was when I was driving in Dundalk (don't ask what i was doing in DUNDALK) and this cop pulled me over beacuse my tags were overdue or something... I don't drive much when I can help it. So I got out my driver's liscence (my International Driver's Licence) and the registration, and for some reason he thought I had forged the dirver's liscence and took me back to the station... I had to sit there and wait for him to authenticate my license, all while I was late (four hours...) to a lecture I was giving to an ESL class... I was more angry about missing my lecture than I was about being pulled over!

any obscure run-ins with the law that you have had or you know somebody has had?

 

[crpntr133]

obscure run- in with the law..hmm. Several years ago I was on my way home in the early hours of the morning and was stopped. Officer hadn't even gotten out of his car and here came two more and then another coming the wrong way down a one way street. I am thinking something is really wrong with this situation. The first officer comes to the truck and does the usual license/ registration thing. Runs the info and returns to play 50 questions. All this time the other officers are shining flashlights in the back of my Blazer. I finally asked him what he pulled me over for. It seems that someone had reported a stolen Blazer matching the discription of mine just minutes before. He then informs me that I have no license plate on the truck and takes me back to show me. Perfect time for the others to look in the front of the truck. He then informs me that he is taking me down town for not have the plate on the truck. A few minutes later he tells me that if I go first thing in the morning to get it taken care of he will let me go. Needless to say I was waiting for them to open the DMV.

Same question.

 

[baltimoron]

HEY!!!! HOW DID THIS THREAD GET ON THE SECOND PAGE!!!!

Favourite Kevin Bacon question?

 

[kittyjg]

"favorite Kevin Bacon question?"

What has he been in besides FlashDance?

next question - how many birdfeeders do you have outside now?

 

[fmw625]

none

what was the lowest temperature that you were out in for a long time?

 

[Fly N Dive]

in the water 45 for 30 min
out of the water skiiling in sub zero temps

next

 

[baltimoron]

growing up where the average temperature is 89 degrees, I do not have much tolerance for cold weather... I get pneumonia easily... Right now its is about 45 degrees, and I just took out my dog in my ski parka and gloves- the whole camel hump. I guess sometimes I can brave it when it is 0 degrees to go outside and get the mail/paper, but that's it.

FAvourite Shakespeare?