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Old Dec 9, 2005 | 7:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Pickles
You mean the cops that check your ID before entering the airport premises? I know it is a remnant of the 70's when the farmers would get on the airport premises and regularly blow them up, but what's the purpose now?
Yup, those guys. When my kids bought those phony dull samurai swords at Asakusa, those cops totally unwrapped them and personally verified they were the dull kind before letting us pass.
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