Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate - One smart Traveler!

From 22 April Cyprus Mail (from the Tales from the Coffee Shop opinion column)....

A WORD of praise for the young woman who refused to be intimidated by the charmless airport cops, who would not let her take a jar of glyko karydaki (walnuts preserved in syrup) with her on the plane. The karydaki jar was in her hand-luggage and the cops stopped her bag as it went through the scanning machine.

She was informed that she could not take any jar containing liquid into the cabin. But the karydaki was preserved in syrup and not nitroglycerin she protested, offering the cops to try it. The cops insisted she left the jar with them. Instead of giving in, she asked them for an empty container and they provided her with one.

She carefully emptied all the syrup into the container leaving the karydaki in the jar, without any liquid in it. We are happy to report that the karydaki jar, minus the explosive syrup, safely arrived in London.

Airport was either Paphos or Larnaca in Cyprus. And more than likely the passenger was a Cypriot or spoke Greek to accomplish this task!

Was it a slow line @ security screenings? It must have taken some time to do all that....

Was it a slow line @ security screenings? It must have taken some time to do all that....

By the time she repacked her defended and retained walnuts, why yes, the line was slow. ;)

Good on her if this is true, but how long has Cyprus followed the liquids lunacy?

By the time she repacked her defended and retained walnuts, why yes, the line was slow. ;)

Good on her if this is true, but how long has Cyprus followed the liquids lunacy?

Cyprus, as far as I know, has followed the liquid lunacy since it began. The thing that amazed me about this article is that security actually had an empty container available and that they gave it to her. Alternately, she could have just strained out the liquid directly into the prohibited items bin (making everything in it a sticky sugary mess) and kept the walnuts in the container now emptied of liquid.

I say "Good on her!" for thinking on her feet.

Good on her if this is true, but how long has Cyprus followed the liquids lunacy?

Cyprus is in the EU, so presumably since 10 October 2006, when the rest of the EU started it.

Cyprus, as far as I know, has followed the liquid lunacy since it began. The thing that amazed me about this article is that security actually had an empty container available and that they gave it to her. Alternately, she could have just strained out the liquid directly into the prohibited items bin (making everything in it a sticky sugary mess) and kept the walnuts in the container now emptied of liquid.

I say "Good on her!" for thinking on her feet.

Heck, that ("she could have just strained out the liquid directly into the prohibited items bin (making everything in it a sticky sugary mess)") would have been the most appropriate response IMO anyways.

If they REALLY want to fish "voluntarily-surrendered" items out of the trash, make 'em work for it. They CLAIM that they don't take stuff out of the bins anyways, right? So there's absolutely no issue whatsoever!:D