[Nicko]

WoW.com Forums -> I played WoW, I became a terrorist (story!)

Now thats funny

[Rumor]

WoW! It's truly a sad state we are in. (We as in humanity) This should probably be moved to the PL, since I know some of the fanboys are going to say it is a necessary evil.

[baw]

[moodymonster]

I'm always tempted to say silly things at customs - but I hold it in.

I think it may have been before 9/11 - on some documentary in the UK: this American guy with a violin case travelling to Chicago from UK, joked to the check in staff that he had a gun in there. Two coppers with carbines showed up to nick him - he was a bit dumbfounded as they took him away.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by moodymonster

I'm always tempted to say silly things at customs - but I hold it in.

I think it may have been before 9/11 - on some documentary in the UK: this American guy with a violin case travelling to Chicago from UK, joked to the check in staff that he had a gun in there. Two coppers with carbines showed up to nick him - he was a bit dumbfounded as they took him away.

Heh. I remember that. It was on a pre-9/11 episode of "Airport", IIRC.

[Dork.]

I've lived close enough to the Canadian border to learn that you simply do not **** with Customs officers. Whenever you're travelling across a border, whether it's on a plane or via land, you're in that odd state of affairs where you've already left the country you departed from but haven't formally been admitted to the country you're going to. So you're in a gray area between countries where it's unclear exactly what rights you do have. They have the right to search everything on your person, and everything in your person, if they suspect you're a threat, and they've had this ability before 9/11 as well. Just smile, answer all their questions, and go on your way!

I would never accept this level of invasiveness from a domestic law enforcement officer. But customs agents are a different story, literally operating on the boundaries of the law, and I understand they need these powers to make sure only people who are authorized come into the country, and that they're following all the rules regarding what they bring with them.

I understand all of it, except at the end when they were searching his computer for child porno. He was being questioned about the possibility that he might be a terrorist, after all, and it seems to me the only reason to search his computer for porno would be to find an excuse to arrest him and make the plane's diversion easier for other passengers to accept....

[Oisín]

I can’t believe I just visited the World of Warcraft website. I feel so dirty now.


Still—absurd, but quite fun, story. At least the guy didn’t freak out (if we’re to believe his version of the story), which is a very big point in his favour. I can imagine many people who would have been somewhere up under the ceiling, screaming about their constitutional rights and harrassment, etc.

[invisibleX]

My favorite part: "OK, so ... if you and Cara were drunk together, and she turned to you and said, 'Tim, let's go--"

[Adam Betts]

Originally Posted by Oisín

I can’t believe I just visited the World of Warcraft website. I feel so dirty now.

Great... you're contaminated now and tomorrow you'll disappear for several years. This is an early goodbye before you leave to the world of Azeroth.

[hayesk]

I was in the San Francisco airport two weeks ago, and the security officers were joking with one of the passengers about hiding bombs in laptops. Go figure.