I have a problem with all the Australian's on the org here.

**aimlesswanderer** · 03-12-2012, 11:34

Then how do they show the good stuff like drug mules and the like?

Have to have dramatic seizures and arrests or there is no show! Hard to hype arresting people for bringing in a few strange tropical fruits.

Maybe being boring does have its benefits. Less hysteria and paranoia is a good thing.

**CountArach** · 03-13-2012, 08:53

Originally Posted by aimlesswanderer

Maybe being boring does have its benefits. Less hysteria and paranoia is a good thing.

I went through the airport in Queenstown, NZ, about 6 months ago. The officer there was absolutely hilarious. Really cheerful and they weren't that tight on security. It was a legitimately pleasant experience for me.

**aimlesswanderer** · 03-15-2012, 12:34

So they didn't make you feel like a criminal? Didn't assume you were a drug runner?

Hmm, the gf wants to go there, we may make it over there some day.

**rory_20_uk** · 03-15-2012, 12:40

I had a flight to and from the Netherlands about a year ago. Going out we were all treated as seditious terrorists who only the vigil of the staff prevented from blowing up the pain. Everything searched / scanned.

Coming back a day later we had a brief glance of our passports and all got on. No plastic bags for hand luggage, no checks for taking fluids on board.

Amazingly, the plane didn't blow up on the return leg of the journey!