Posted on 01/07/2007 1:51:52 PM PST by Hostage
Your mother in law should have disguised herself as a 19 to 34-year-old man of middle eastern descent, carrying jihad propaganda and detailed maps of the New York subway system. She would have been in in a flash.
Too many stories like this, unfortunately. Ugh.
I absolutely believe your friend is just as you say. And he probably does a terrific job for our country. In and my wife deal with customs about five or six times a year. It only takes one little napoleon gestapo prick every few years to make you wish you had never returned to the dear old sod believe me!
D#mn, I am strapped with double 00 staples in my chest and trigger the metal detector every time.
Life's a b!tch, you marry a couple, and then you die is my philosophy.
I've never had a TSA "babe" check my crotch however....
Wishes just never come true though do they...
You and me both, babe! Had breast cancer at 26. Had a double mastectomy and reconstruction...didn't wanna wait for the other shoe to drop, so to speak.
I was sitting in a doctor's waiting room for an appointment. Had my x-rays.
Nosy me...I pulled 'em out. I yelped!!!
Yep...I'm fulla staples!!!
They will, just haven't smuggled in enuff shit yet. JUST kidding epwpgs old boy
LOL!
I think you just made my day, and my family's as well. This is exactly the kind of information I was hoping somehow to find. A big thank you to you and yours.
d#mn, I earned mine in my last life.
I am now going on 7 years old, since having my heart removed and repaired.
Well, life was good and now it's good again with staples.
No I didn't see any white lights...
With the original post no longer accessible, it appears that there was good reason for your suspicions about the nature of the original article. Please accept my apologies to you both for my comments to you. Apparently, I rode the wrong horse and my comments were uncalled for and out of line.
Dusty
My favorite sauce is derived from apples.
What is your favorite sauce?
All horses need to be rode.
The pick of the litter is always a toss up.
She was also left in a room crying, with her cell phone taken away, stripped down, in a foreign country and not able to communicate because she didn't know the language. If I was put in a similar situation I would be scared too.
It is a terribly awful story and that's why I posted it. Sure we will get over it but I don't want her to go back home thinking America is an awful place. She is sure happy to see the baby though but I know she will tell family in Lithuania just how it happened and with the size of the family back there, 40 cousins and aunts, uncles and so on it will be news. It will be news that stinks.
It reminds me a little when an old college friend got pulled over in Baja California by the Mexican Federales. He had to pay them $100 or so to be let go. He said he hadn't done anything wrong and I believed him because at that time everyone even the local news people were talking about how Americans were getting shook down in Baja.
I may yet give this story to the media along with a list of ideas that have popped up here in this thread.
It's always nice when you pick the right horse from the beginning ;)
Why in the world didn't you make arrangements to meet your aged grandmother when she exited the plane?
..or have an airline agent help her through customs.
If you went to ALL the trouble to get her over here, why in the world didn't you take extra precaution to get her off the plane with assistance?
Seems to me common sense would prevail in this situation.
Many of us are a bit skeptical that you didn't know or try to find out what resources you had when it came to assisting your grandmother.
Did you not even call airline authorities or custom agency to ask questions?
Or is it easier to blame someone once the 'incident' happens.
I can't imagine letting my aged grandmother travel without assistance or helps once she arrives.
We would really like the answers to these questions.
Hostage...simple question...
How old is your grandmother?
Then it's your fault. If you didn't stand there and demand they stop, then you are the wimp.
I am 5'2" and 115 pounds. When they started that cr@p on my 75-year-old mom, I let 'em have it.
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