Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Long time ago, I got stopped in the green channel at Heathrow and politely informed that I fitted the description of a known drug smuggler. All perfectly amicable and quickly resolved when I showed my airline ID.
Funnily enough it was the same trip where my mate and I had been hauled off the plane on arrival at TLV by a couple of swarthy guys with Uzis, in front of all the other bemused passengers.
A US colleague resident in the UK spent a number of years being stopped at just about every airport he went through. Eventually he found a considerate Immigration Officer who informed him he shared a name with a senior member of a well known Italian American family out of Boston