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Operation Cheery Customs
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lonita's reference to me here, this is what I did.
Get a greeting card that plays a cheesey tune like "You Are My Sunshine" and your passport.
Cut the tune generating thingy out. Make sure you don't cut the little plastic tab that glues onto the other side of the card. This pulls a plastic strip from between the circuit breaker contacts as you open the card.
Use stickytape to put the tune thingy in your passport, and stick the plastic tab on the next page. Don't do this on the first page where your photo is. Do it on the second page. Your passport will now play "You Are My Sunshine" or something else, in cheesy single beep tones.
Operation Cheery Customs had begun. The customs officer at Sydney airport told me off for defacing the passport.
Customs Officers have no sense of humour
lonita's reference to me here, this is what I did.Get a greeting card that plays a cheesey tune like "You Are My Sunshine" and your passport.
Cut the tune generating thingy out. Make sure you don't cut the little plastic tab that glues onto the other side of the card. This pulls a plastic strip from between the circuit breaker contacts as you open the card.
Use stickytape to put the tune thingy in your passport, and stick the plastic tab on the next page. Don't do this on the first page where your photo is. Do it on the second page. Your passport will now play "You Are My Sunshine" or something else, in cheesy single beep tones.
Operation Cheery Customs had begun. The customs officer at Sydney airport told me off for defacing the passport.
Customs Officers have no sense of humour
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Like we all didn't know this is one of those absolutes, like "We're all gonna die someday."
Heh.
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Just don't try to come into the US with that. They'll arrest you for a stunt like that given the atmosphere here lately o.o
Before that they coulda cared less. Returning from England, I had an ornamental Egyptian dagger with me. Not sharp by any means but you could still hurt someone badly with the point, that and its heavy enough to knock someone out with the hilt easily.
Anyway, it was in my checked baggage but when I got back to the U.S., my customs form just said "Dagger" on it. No questions asked. I had to pick up my checked baggage in Chicago and recheck them. I could have transferred the dagger to carry on then and no one would have known. No questions asked, no rescan at security (already was past the checkpoint when you get off a plane!). All this was less than a month before 9/11. I was appalled at the security. In England they had check points to get to the boarding areas and another at the point where you get on the plane. I certainly hope Chicago O'hare has that now o.o
When 9/11 happened, I was not the least bit surprised...
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I did that 14 months ago. I wouldn't do that now, not after the events of September 11
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