Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: Scunner on September 23, 2009, 21:04:16 PM
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At the second (gate) security check at Dalaman I was summonsed to speak to some miserable git who had a rummage in my hand luggage and produced a red stone about 3" x 3" which my daughter found on the beach around 2 years ago. It is in an almost perfect heart shape and she loved it. We weren't travelling too heavy this time so decided to bring it back as a surprise.
"Passport" said the git, holding his hand out. I gave him my passport and he added my name to their list, together with passport number. He looked up, held the stone out and said "problem", and chucked it in the bin.
Turkey, where true romance never starts :-\
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Shame on them - breaks my heart stuff like that - what was the "problem"
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No reason whatsoever. Just "problem". Well as it isn't "antik" or precious, I can only guess that a 3"x3" stone could be used as a weapon, I could take over the plane with a heart shaped implement.
The large bottle of water in the same bag, still frozen pretty much as it came out of the freezer as we left for the airport would allow a far greater swing and possibly inflict far greater injuries, but that was not a "problem".
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What an absolute disgrace the petty gits.
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Yet another example of Turkish Officials (Dalaman Airport) endearing themselves to 'tourists' (as you are now Kieth :D)and ensuring that they return to Turkey....NOT:-\: :)
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By the sound of it Scunner you sound like a professional hit man. ;)
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customs are heartless
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News Headlines
A miserable git who works in security at Dalaman airport today presented his wife with a beautiful heart shaped stone saying "Darling this is a token of my love for you" at which point she slipped on some ayran she had spilt on the floor and smashed him in the face with said stone.
(http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp173/crabbit49/heart.jpg)
(http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp173/crabbit49/crab.gif)
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They are not so clever at Dalaman.
I was at the departure gate behind a young couple with a buggy. Security guy was checking buggy and found a bottle of wine and a bottle of sun lotion in the bag below buggy.
How did it get that far when they have security as you enter airport?
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They are a miserable bunch of gits, especially at the gate,I have noticed it many times,in particular when I was over in June, he was really shouting at people to hurry and trying his best to be as awkward as possible.......it comes naturally to the airport staff most of the time.
Shame about the stone Scunner...
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Well maybe you should have put it in your suitcase, they may have seen it as a weapon!
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As I already pointed out, there were far more suitable 'weapons' in the same bag.
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why did they take your name and passport number, no jokes, just wondered :)
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They have a list that they fill in with details of people who were questioned about things in their luggage. They also have one at the main security check as you enter. Anything questioned goes in the book along with your passport number and name. I must be in their list around 6 times over the years, although not for anything actually removed from me apart from this one.
The last one was an iPod speaker, it's a long cylindrical aluminium tube. Having finally explained what it was they were happy with that, and gave it back to me. I still went on the naughty list though :-\
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I'm also in that 'special' book ! Mr Pookie decided to pop a swiss army knife in the bottom of the backpack and not tell me !!! there I was quaking in my boots because I had stashed a bag full of lemons in the bottom and I couldn't work out what the problem was with a bag full of lemons...then they produced this evil looking swiss army knife which I knew nothing about. Bloody men :D:D
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so keith you nolonger have a heart of stone you big softy. Typical little hitler types all over the world put them in a uniform and the next thing you know they are throwing their weight about.
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My wife does'nt wear a uniform.!!
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Not many people can say they went on holiday to Turkey, ate good food, drank plenty of Efes, and still lost a stone !
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Boom Boom
I knew there was a pun in that story somewhere, well done that man :D
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Çok tesekkür ederim :D
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Strange as I've never been put in the naughty book. I take a large offensive object through there about four times a year and they just look at me with pity in their eyes. She is useful for carrying luggage though:D
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what happens if your in the naughty book, where do they store the information, and what for
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I assume they all get added to a big computer database and flag up if you are found taking the same sort of things out regularly
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I can't imagine there are a lot of heartshaped stones for you to smuggle out.
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I bought the Mutlu bridge and the Dolphin roundabout for my UK Scunnerland, 5,000,000 more trips and I'll have the beach too.
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Take this one with you next time and ask him if he recognises it when the looks in the mirror
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q214/highlander_010/phallic_effigy_c.jpg)
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Hell of a pun that...trust you Alan, very funny indeed....so sharp.:D
Pisco..amusing...good job I am not your other half.. :)
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erm H what is it,i did think rude thoughts ,but as you are a gentleman i thought otherwise
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Puma.It's a Haggis Hammer.It pre-dates the Caber.
(hence the saying "I do'nt giva a ----)
:) Honest.
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ermm,i can't say what i thought it was i would get banned
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H, I think I reconise that tweed if not the t*rd, both probally woven in Scotland
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You know those plastic cable ties? I took a bunch of them in my hand luggage a few weeks ago for our garden in Calis. The guy at M'Chester airport confiscated them because (and I quote) "they can be used to tie people up with" and he held out his hands with the palms together and indicated that his two thumbs could be imobilised by using one of them.