[47263] in Cypherpunks
Re: Phil Z getting through customs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Mon Jan 15 21:48:34 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:29:09 -0800
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: attila <attila@primenet.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:21 AM 1/15/96 -0800, Simon Spero wrote:
>When I was a student and had long hair, I used to always get questioned
>when going throught customs. After graduating, and having normal length
>hair, I had a lot less trouble.
This seems odd. Logically (okay, I know logic doesn't work with the
government) any smuggler is going to try to be as innocuous as possible.
He's cut his hair, and shave, and probably wear a tie, etc. Which means the
government should pay more attention to....
Oh, never mind!
>The strictest customs I've been through is at Lod (Tel Aviv); there the
>assumption is that everybody is going to try and bring in at least
>some sort of radio/fax machine to avoid the high taxes, so they check all
>baggage. They do have the best security team in general though, so it
>balances out.
Some comedian 15 years or so ago (David Brenner, maybe?) had a joke which went
something like this:
"The odds of there being a bomb on a commercial airliner is one in a
million. The odds of there being TWO bombs on a commercial airliner are one
in a _million_million_. Therefore, if you are taking an airplane flight and
want to feel REALLY safe....Take a bomb!"
