Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
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once when flying from Manila to baguio, before we boarded the plane, i was asked to stand on a box, and the security people did a quick search, he asked me what was in my pocket, i had some British coins in my pocket, i showed him it was coins, he looked at them in my hand, took a £1 coin, smiled at me, and told me to board the plane, i was a bit so i didn't say anything to him. i told my misses later and she went . its not just the £1 i lost , but if he would risk his job for a £1, he's a security risk, what else would he let people on the plane?
Exactly the same thing happened to me. but it was 2 £1 coins, he just smiled at me and said "souvenir". I just got the feeling that if I had caused a fuss I would have been strip searched and had the rubber glove treatment. So I just smiled back at him as he put it in his pocket and he let me go on my way.

Iain.