[Revolting cat!]

I was negatively profiled in Hong Kong a few years ago, after we gave away our crown jewel to the Commies. I was on a bus on some island returning from a mountaintop Buddhist monastery when the bus was stopped by armed soldiers. It happened in the vicinity of a prison which could be seen as the bus was coming down the hill. The soldiers asked everyone for their internal passports, detained a couple of characters, but waived me through, the only non-Asian-American cat on the bus. (Just kidding about the Asian-Americans.) I don't know why, but I was scared chitless while this was going on. They were looking for wetbacks not escaped prisoners, by the way. And the reason I was the only non-Asian-American was that I took a wrong bus which went to a train station near some drab, modern residential part of town, whereas the "right bus" would have taken me to other tourist attractions.

[shaggy eel]

,,, that would have worried me too. When you're a long way from home you want as little hassle as possible. The mentality is vastly different there.

The only other time I had a problem of this nature, but much more civilised in approach, was at Heathrow when taking a flight to Dublin. Since then, I've never worn jeans and a black leather jacket when flying anywhere, especially thru Singapore.