Ammunition found in hand luggage by cabin crew

[ExSimGuy]

Flipside,

I regularly get a "random extra check" - probably due to "profiling" as I have a passport full of Mid-East stamps (I live there, work there, and when given the opportunity go to Church there!) but I accept that it is SOP and roll with it.

"Airside IEDs" - They sell litre bottles of inflammable materials in LHR shops and on the duty-free trolleys, but (in USA) take away my tiny, 2cc's of gas disposable lighter so I can;t have a smoke when I land at LHR (at the "authorised point" - which is after customs, immigration, baggage - OUTSIDE the airport!)

Weapons - see above comments about 1-litre "Glasgow Daggers" - what happened to the plastic DF bottles of 30 years ago? If the punters seriously object to the flavour of booze from plastic bottles, let then pay the extra couple of quid to buy glass bottles from the local off-license! (LHR "duty free" isn't really that cheap anyway, due to the probably exorbitant rents charged to the shops to sell their wares there.)

Sorry, but I've flown many times in/through Mid-East, Europe, US of A, and I find the airport "security" is (IMHO) more of a show than a real "operation" It might stop the amateur, but I'm not sure that a serious intelligent operator would be stopped 100% of the time.

(though a few more security staff at LHR might be a good idea as I get the impression that they are hard-pressed to reconcile getting the pax through in time for their flights with doing an efficient job - I sympathise with them there)