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Old Dec 31, 2007 | 6:05 pm
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sammy0623
 
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Originally Posted by SteveHK
The most amazing security process I've seen was AUH (Abu Dhabi). What a joke! Beep through the metal detector? Ehhh whatever. Don't have a passport? Ughhh just go. You'd put your bags on the X-Ray conveyor and no one is even sitting at the screen to watch what's in those bags (he went to get coffee).

Luckily I'm the worry-free guy that I am and just thought it was funny. But when I think of the fact that you don't have to go through security in places like LHR and someone could board a plane with a weapon in AUH and end up on a flight from LHR to JFK...
a friend of mine was in Bangladesh, and the security guy let a passenger with a "wrapped present" cut the line, and not inspect the box, for the equivalent of 20 cents (USD)...as my friend put it "that coulda been a baby!"
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