Wow. Good thing she was one of the lazy ones! And the metal steak knife? After 9/11? In a secure area?
-facepalm-
After my rather surprising experience at Prague International Airport, I found a Czech cop and told him. I showed him my passport as well (along with the PR visa). He just sort of looked at it, continued smoking his cigarette and drinking his coffee, and said, “I’ll look into it.”
As far as I’m concerned, being able to walk directly off an airplane, collect your luggage, and then hop on a bus or hail a taxi without any kind of passport or customs control is a pretty serious security breach. It really is the airport version of an open border. Of course, it’s part of the Schengen Zone here, but there should still be some kind of control.
Trains are something else. I can hop a train from here to France, and no one looks at my passport. My ticket, of course. But that’s at. Convenient on the one hand to be sure, but a potential security problem on the other.
Yeah, trains are how I get all my C-4 into France. Much less hassle than airplanes. ;-)