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Old Jun 12, 2011 | 5:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Silver Fox
While going through LHR terminal 1 last Wednesday and being addressed by the United pre-check in "security" oiks that stand there with a laptop and little passport stickers, amongst the oddest questions I got asked was "do you have anything like a weapon?".

Fortunately I managed to bite my tongue and not say anything that would almost guarantee me being not allowed to fly, but there were a whole series of other questions that were just plain weird, and seemed made up? Am I lucky or has anyone else experienced this at LHR recently?
The question is usually phrased, "Do you have anything that looks like a weapon?" and they ask it almost every time I fly. It's not really a stupid question - one time many years ago I got stopped because the toy Concorde in my bag looked like a gun to the X-ray machine.

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