The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8714277,16.8236558,3a,75y,43.97h,68.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1squ7EZQJtXfyaf0Tyk6aCvA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dqu7EZQJtXfyaf0Tyk6aCvA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D194.58426%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

[Grey Fox]

#hit&run

[grumbler]

Drunk and fell asleep on the sidewalk?  No blood or visible damage to the bike.

[HVC]

#hit&run

#alcoholicandhisbike

[Tamas]

Drunk and fell asleep on the sidewalk?  No blood or visible damage to the bike.

Yes of course  Sounds like this is more rare outside of eastern european villages, then

[Admiral Yi]

#badperformanceart

[Barrister]

I like how the google van just drives right past the guy.

[The Brain]

Ludwig van would have done anything different?

[Syt]

Tracking update DHL: 8:53 pm - couldn't deliver today. Will try again tomorrow.

Just drop it off at a pickup shop, FFS.

[dps]

So, today this appeared on the screen while a piece of luggage was X-rayed at the security control of Barcelona's largest railway station:



The station was evacuated, railway traffic between Madrid and Barcelona shut down, and the corresponding station in Madrid was evacuated too.

It was a belt buckle. Better safe than sorry though.

I've posted this before, but as a reminder, given the number of wargames here--wargame counters can look like plastic explosives to an X-ray machine.

[Josquius]

Last time I flew they were very suspicious of the tea strainer in my tea pot.

[Iormlund]

A Navarrese colleague of mine was stopped at the security checkpoint in Frankfurt once (we were frequent travellers back then). It was during one of the terror scares some time ago. Since he did not speak anything but Spanish I offered to to translate.

As the stern-looking officer was carefully emptying his bag my mate jumped: "The knife!". To which I replied: "for fucks sake Txemari! WTF you mean with 'The knife!'?". Turns out he had forgotten he carried a knife to peel fruit at work. The head of security was summoned, took a look at the knife, another at us, then told the officer to put the knife back in the bag and let it go.

[Syt]

I walked through security at Vienna airport once and the metal detector reacted. The security looked at me, saw that I had left my sunglasses in my chest pocket, and said, "It's the glasses, isn't it?"

"I guess," I replied.

He waved me through.

In hindsight I don't think he followed proper protocol.

[The Larch]

A really absent-minded friend of mine almost went through security at JFK with a camping knife in his backpack, and only remembered in the nick of time to get it out. I doubt they would have been super kind to him about it. 

It would not be the first time he'd have problems with security at airports, once several years ago he was travelling with his brother and in some German airport (Dusseldorf?) they forgot to pick up one of their luggage items from the belts and only remembered when they were leaving the airport. When they went back to pick it up they found the whole section of the airport closed and their luggage surrounded by cops. When they identified themselves as its owners they interrogated them for like half an hour or something, and ended up just letting them go.

[Barrister]

Mid 90s, I had been working out in the bush for a few weeks in northern Manitoba.  For some reason I was able to head back to Winnipeg for a weekend or so since that set of our field work was done.  So I'm brought into the airport at the nearest first nations community.  I remember I was out on the tarmac with my bags, ready to board onto the airline, when I realize I still have my 6" knife on my belt.  There was no security in sight, and I totally could have gotten on that plane.  But I quickly stashed the knife into my bag.