Sunday, October 17, 2010

Funny Story

When we went to Disneyland back in May, Mike and Collin flew there on an airplane, that's right an airplane.

but wait, the story gets better...

At the airport Mike got stopped because he had a 12" long knife in his bag. I don't know the protocol for being caught at the airport with a weapon. I thought you got wrestled to the ground and taken into custody. Not so... they simply make you mail the weapon back to yourself and sign a list. So Mike mailed the knife back to himself and signed the list, but he didn't use his name, he put down Collin's name instead. Turns out this is not the first time Mike has been caught at the airport with a knife, on several different occasions he has been caught and put down Matt's name and Chas's name also.

Fast forward to when we were camping in Yosemite and while sitting around the campfire Matt casually mentioned that he can no longer do automated check-in at the airport he has to go to the counter and check-in. Last time he was there he asked the lady at the desk why he can't do the automated check-in anymore. She told him it is because he is on the terror watch list, but then she said, "don't worry it is probably just someone else with your same name."

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or he could be on the list because someone tried several times to sneak a weapon onto a plane using his name, either way.

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