robert Minor Leaguer
Number of posts : 899 Age : 58 Registration date : 2008-03-30
| Subject: The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2 Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:29 pm | |
| Over the past three years, 81,793 frustrated travelers have formally asked that they be struck from the watch list through the Department of Homeland Security; more than 25,000 of their cases are still pending. Others have taken more drastic measures. Mario Labbé, a frequent-flying Canadian record-company executive, started having problems at airports shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, with lengthy delays at checkpoints and mysterious questions about Japan. By 2005, he stopped flying to the United States from Canada, instead meeting American clients in France. Then a forced rerouting to Miami in 2008 led to six hours of questions. “What’s the name of your mother? Your father? When were you last in Japan?” Mr. Labbé recalled being asked. “Always the same questions in different order. And sometimes, it’s quite aggressive, not funny at all.” Fed up, in the summer of 2008, he changed his name to François Mario Labbé. The problem vanished. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html?th&emc=thlol... that seems easy | |
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crutch51 Major Leaguer
Number of posts : 1207 Age : 78 Location : here Registration date : 2008-04-24
| Subject: Re: The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2 Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:44 pm | |
| Maybe you have been patted down so many times your beginning to like,you might want to change your name to Pierre... | |
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