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Amusing nonsense
I stumbled across this by chance and thought it fun. The TSA may not be amused. 
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Whatever you think of the TSA (and other government agencies), they're doing a job, whether you like it or not.
It does not however justify theft of government property, which is a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. section 641.Albeit given the value would be a misdemeanor.
No longer such fun when it affects the rest of your life.
It does not however justify theft of government property, which is a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. section 641.Albeit given the value would be a misdemeanor.
No longer such fun when it affects the rest of your life.
If I saw an security agent allowing a pax to take such a tray / basket / basin with him/her I would have serious doubt on the agent's ability to fulfill the job requirements.
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I think the point is that the 'security' staff are so busy doing their process-defined busy-work that they didn't even notice the passenger taking the tray. Many eyes looking but none seeing, which doesn't inspire confidence.
When I was a 16yo apprentice engineer (Yes, I DO have a long memory) three apprentices decided they'd attempt to remove a blacksmith's anvil from the secret and secure MoD experimental establishment where we worked.
They made a halter, placed it around the neck of the strongest and suspended the anvil between his legs and hid it with a long coat.
The other two supported him past the MoD police guards, explaining that he'd taken ill and they were helping him home.
They were caught when they tried to return it
They made a halter, placed it around the neck of the strongest and suspended the anvil between his legs and hid it with a long coat.
The other two supported him past the MoD police guards, explaining that he'd taken ill and they were helping him home.
They were caught when they tried to return it
I heard about a case of a ships propellor being stolen from a dockyard. It was massive and required a special truck. No one thought to question the perpetrators as obviously it must have been legit.
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IIRC it happened at Swan Hunter's on Tyneside - over an Easter weekend - maybe in the early 60's
In those far off days they had a line of propellors (all phosphor bronze) lined up on the dock side - this was well before just-in-time-delivery
Someone turned up with a low-loader and escort vehicle and all the paper-work saying it was to go to Clydeside and they even dug out the duty crane operator to move it......
it was 20-40 tons and worth a fortune ... and was never seen again
clearly an inside job and probably middle management but no oen was ever fingered for it...................
In those far off days they had a line of propellors (all phosphor bronze) lined up on the dock side - this was well before just-in-time-delivery
Someone turned up with a low-loader and escort vehicle and all the paper-work saying it was to go to Clydeside and they even dug out the duty crane operator to move it......
it was 20-40 tons and worth a fortune ... and was never seen again
clearly an inside job and probably middle management but no oen was ever fingered for it...................
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It happens every day. I saw a TV program, from CCTV, of a white van driving boldly into a builders yard, reverse unto a small road roller, out climb 2 suitable dressed navies who positioned a ramp at the back of there van and proceed to drive the roller up and inside and equally boldly drive out of there builders yard. Broad daylight, sheer cheek & bravado.
I would not be surprised how many 'white coats and neck stethoscopes' remove stuff from hospitals everyday. The list off bare-faced don't blink thieves must be huge.
I would not be surprised how many 'white coats and neck stethoscopes' remove stuff from hospitals everyday. The list off bare-faced don't blink thieves must be huge.
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Sometime in the 1980's at John Lewis in Oxford St., 2 chaps go into the carpet department and roll up a 12ft x 9ft Chinese rug, worth around £1000. Tape it up, then over the shoulders and down the escalator and out through the front doors.
I imagine any red faces of the perpetrators were disguised by the fact of hefting one of those things between 2, would in any case give them both red faces and sweaty brows!
I imagine any red faces of the perpetrators were disguised by the fact of hefting one of those things between 2, would in any case give them both red faces and sweaty brows!
Many, many moons ago I worked for the top security printing firm, Bradbury Wilkinson. They printed banknotes, stamps, travellers cheques and all financial instruments. As you can imagine it was a high security premises.
The chairman had his office redecorated over a bank holiday weekend and when he returned found that the valuable Persian rug which adorned his office had been stolen!
The rug was never found nor the culprits
The chairman had his office redecorated over a bank holiday weekend and when he returned found that the valuable Persian rug which adorned his office had been stolen!
The rug was never found nor the culprits
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There have been many reports of neighbours throught 'they must be moving' as the removals men emotied the entire house contents into their (suitably painted) removals van and drove off. When I worked in a department store, it was known that the amount of internal theft wa enormous. Much of it being tucked into legit shopping bags of friends by the counter assistant.
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...I recall a good story from Calcutta. There was a big munitions factory at Dum-Dum. They were losing a lot of stuff from pilfering; the guards on the gate spot- checked the offgoing shift; one chap was waddling along with difficulty, obviously in some discomfort. "What's the matter with you?"........"Elephantiasis of my scrotum" - (try putting that into Bengali !) - not uncommon there, it seemed.
They whipped off his dhoti, slung between his legs was the chuck off a lathe, weighing half a hundredweight ! (Off thread a bit, sorry, Mr Moderator)...
They whipped off his dhoti, slung between his legs was the chuck off a lathe, weighing half a hundredweight ! (Off thread a bit, sorry, Mr Moderator)...
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Well, Danny 42C, the O/P [original poster] titled the thread Amusing nonsense and you posted just that! One might surmise that under the dhoti along with the chuck, he certainly had some kind of problem with his scrotum. But, as you correctly say, none of this has anything to do with aviation ... Tsk Tsk.
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Sometime in the 1980's at John Lewis in Oxford St., 2 chaps go into the carpet department and roll up a 12ft x 9ft Chinese rug, worth around £1000. Tape it up, then over the shoulders and down the escalator and out through the front doors.
Does anyone remember the 1969 Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race ? We Tankertrash operated out of Loring and Goose and refuelled the Navy F4 and the Harrier
A few months later there was a cocktail party to celebrate this at the Inigo Jones Banqueting Hall in Whitehall funded by the Navy. In this (free) pi$$ up was a large cake with a picture of a RN F4 and the cake was destined for Great Ormond St.
We decided to 'steal' it . We managed to get it out of the upstairs hall and go downstairs in the street until we were apprehended by RN Police on the door. I was then being b0llocked by the Sqn Cdr on how I'd let the RAF down etc etc when this Air Marshal (we were all in uniform) poked his nose in and said what a wizard wheeze this was to take it to the RAF Club and ransom it to the fishheads. With one bound I was free !!
A few months later there was a cocktail party to celebrate this at the Inigo Jones Banqueting Hall in Whitehall funded by the Navy. In this (free) pi$$ up was a large cake with a picture of a RN F4 and the cake was destined for Great Ormond St.
We decided to 'steal' it . We managed to get it out of the upstairs hall and go downstairs in the street until we were apprehended by RN Police on the door. I was then being b0llocked by the Sqn Cdr on how I'd let the RAF down etc etc when this Air Marshal (we were all in uniform) poked his nose in and said what a wizard wheeze this was to take it to the RAF Club and ransom it to the fishheads. With one bound I was free !!
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Great story NRU74! Your Sqn Cdr must have rather cheesed off that you got out of that one! Certainly the sight of an Air Marshal in full rig, splattering scrambled egg as he goes, is a site that stops ANYONE in the service. Come to that, many regular citizens too!
The story about the carpet goes back even further.
My mother was a WREN in WW2. Towards the end of the war she was billeted in the Lord Warden Hotel in Dover which I gather had been upmarket before the war. One day men with clipboard walked in and took away the hall carpet which was in good condition.
My mother was a WREN in WW2. Towards the end of the war she was billeted in the Lord Warden Hotel in Dover which I gather had been upmarket before the war. One day men with clipboard walked in and took away the hall carpet which was in good condition.