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Originally Posted by Robbie
Damn! Where were you? That's insane.
When we went to the Amsterdam show in 2007 I was shocked because when we landed it was 6 a.m. and I was exhausted...thought I'd be in line at customs for hours.
Nope. No customs at all! One guy just waved us in.
Then when I flew back home, they did the same little x-ray of the carry ons but the whole process was much faster and much more efficient.
Then when I got back to the U.S. it was a nightmare.
Embarrassing even...I was in the U.S. citizens line and still felt harassed as they demanded to know what I was doing out of the country...I told them it was none of their goddamn business. lol! The guy didn't know what to do when I said that, and he finally just mumbled "welcome home" and stamped me in.
But over in the "non-citizen" line it was like watching Nazi's at work. They were fingerprinting and eye scanning people and searching them. I couldn't help but think how bad that looked, especially after my experience at Amsterdam airport.
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It was either Rome, Venice or in Germany where I had a lay over. I'm thinking it was Germany if I remember right. It was 2002, one year after 911 so maybe they were more strict then and laxed off now, i don't know. I haven't been back to Europe since.
So no more drug mules flying into the country? all of the cocaine balloons they swallow will be showing up on the body scanner.
I don't doubt they can detect drugs too, but I don't think that is their primary reason for doing this. I'd bet less than 1% of the drugs are flown into the country via regular commercial airlines much less are they transported domestically via airlines. They wouldn't do all of this for the sole purpose of drug detection, I doubt it was even a factor, but I am sure in their training they were prepared for coming across it during their searches.