Originally Posted by
oscietra
However, I would hope that the threat of being publicly shamed by being asked to replace the items by a lounge attendant or manager would be sufficient, rather than this awful Americanistic tendency to want to involved the Police and legal system in everything. Always the sign of "milk monitor syndrome" if things like this get blown out of proportion.
Originally Posted by
Dan72
I avoided this thread as it looked too taxing from the word go. But following its second run, I have just had a quick skim and think the above paras sum it up best.
So, to paraphrase all the points of view so far:
* BA may have put up a sign, but they don't really care. If you ask nicely, they may even explicitly say: "Yes, take what you like"
* The LHR rozzers have told us their opinion ( big thanks to
Steve Oh for sharing their thoughts ! ^ ) They seems to have better/bigger things to worry about. Fairly understandable, really.
* The general public/lounge users think it's "a poor show" but that's about as far as it goes..
...so it may end up being the lawyers all on their own on this one? 