Originally posted by ivor&mel@Feb 20 2006, 03:57 PM
Having just returned to the UK from Cebu via Singapore a couple of weeks ago, I have to say that airport security seems to have been stepped up almost to the point of paranoia... And commonsense seems to have been the major victim...

Mere weeks after the 9/11 terrorism I flew out of Manila, and during the gestapo interrogation bit they noticed I had a nail clipper in my bag. A tiny little 'Made in China' uselss toy, you know the sort.

BUT, it had a 3/4" long fold out nail file fastened to it. It was useless, a child would be hard pressed to hurt themselves on it, but I had to fold it back and forth, snap it off and throw it in the collection bin, as it was deemed a possible weapon, a terrorist threat, security threat, rules are rules etc etc.

An hour later, on the plane, (Philippine Airlines) I was handed a serrated, three inch blade, stainless steel knive to eat my meal with oh: :blink:

Only in the Philippines.

In the Philippines nothing is ever quite done 100%. Try as they might, they can never quite get anything completly right