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SamNichols

New Member
Location
Colne, Lancs
Due to some family issues, I am currently at home.
Anyway, to cut to the long and the short of it: today I was searched by the police under the terrorism act (it's not the first time, by the way, it's the second). Anyway at first I was bemused as I witnessed, for no apparent reason, a police officer rummaging through my undies and toiletries. Then, as the train wandered from Manchester to Watford, I started to feel a bit strange.
Firstly: what is the efficacy of the system? It's basically a more formal equivalent of yelling: 'is anyone a terrorist?'
Secondly: what would they do if they actually found a bomb? It's not as if two random members of the British Transport Police are particularly well qualified to take down a terrorist.

It just strikes me as really pointless.
On the plus side:
1) I now have a pink slip to suggest that I am, at least at the moment, not a terrorist.
2) On the slip it lists my build as 'slim'. Checked at home and I've lost over a stone over the last 2 months. Woo.
 
Was the pink slip not placed back in with your other under-wear then?
 

pzycoman

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SamNichols said:
Secondly: what would they do if they actually found a bomb? It's not as if two random members of the British Transport Police are particularly well qualified to take down a terrorist.

I always ask police that when I get stopped and searched. They always say theyd run first, then ask for backup.
 
i remember seeing the "transport police" checking cars around the Waterloo area when Queenie was taking a Eurostar a few years back. i got the distinct impression they weren't transport police in the usual sense. they all looked very fit - in a "i can survive in a jungle for years armed only with a toothpick" way.

glad you survived.... you could model the slip for the CC calendar.
 
Receipt, a new bra from Playtex?
 

Landslide

Rare Migrant
SamNichols said:
I now have a pink slip to suggest that I am, at least at the moment, not a terrorist.

Is that akin to the only people who have certificates to prove that they're sane are the ones who've been talked to by the nice men in white coats?
 

snorri

Legendary Member
SamNichols said:
Bloody hell, you lot can get innuendo from anywhere (must remember to say receipt next time).

I have wondered as to the sex of your avatar, I thought this thread sorted things out, but now I'm more confused than ever.:smile:
 
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SamNichols

SamNichols

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Location
Colne, Lancs
snorri said:
I have wondered as to the sex of your avatar, I thought this thread sorted things out, but now I'm more confused than ever.:smile:

What is it with this ruddy forum and everything thinking that I am a girl? I have had this several times: I am girly, but I am not a girl, ok?
 
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