A little of the monkey

Commander 0077 · Post by **Commander 0077** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:18 am

This is a couple of weeks old, but it's a classic:
a man was caught smuggling his tiny pet monkey in his hat aboard a jetliner. The passengers noticed the monkey crawling out or something. And during the rest of the flight, the moneky sat next to him, very well behaved. I would think that the airline would give him a free pass.

It's also funny to me because it's something that Inspector Clouseau would do. There was one Pink Panther where Clouseau is in front of a bank and there's a 'minkey' by a blind man. The blind man of course is part of the bank robbery.

Anyway, everytime I see a 'minkey' story, I laff. doesn't take much to make Cmdr 0077 laff, he's easy to please

Post by **Blowfeld** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:43 am

Thank god for the thoroughness of Airport Security ! I can't wear my shoes through a check point and he can conceal a monkey under his hat.

Commander 0077 · Post by **Commander 0077** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:09 am

I shall have to tell my funny true story:
I flew in from Hong Kong to what will be an unnamed U.S. airport. Going thru Customs, a cop flagged me over, a random check (it seems Cmdr 0077 was too suave, and fit the profile of the saturnine, international twit of mystery). Inside one of my bags was a replica Walther PPK

. I was ready to tell him if he was about to find it, "A toy!" he squeaked. He put it thru the x-ray, etc. He rummaged around. But they never found it.
Another good test of airport security.

Post by **Blowfeld** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:02 pm

Commander 0077 wrote:I shall have to tell my funny true story:
I flew in from Hong Kong to what will be an unnamed U.S. airport. Going thru Customs, a cop flagged me over, a random check (it seems Cmdr 0077 was too suave, and fit the profile of the saturnine, international twit of mystery). Inside one of my bags was a replica Walther PPK . I was ready to tell him if he was about to find it, "A toy!" he squeaked. He put it thru the x-ray, etc. He rummaged around. But they never found it.
Another good test of airport security.

Good god.. I heard a very similar story, different circumstances with a similar object, while the item was harmless it should have at least warranted a look.

Commander 0077 · Post by **Commander 0077** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:18 am

The replica was virtually an exact duplicate of the real thing, btw. This was only a couple of years ago, so you'd think security would have been beefed up.*** Also, when in Hong Kong, a fellow who was a detective there took a look and it, and at first glance he thought it was real.

Supposedly, guns are illegal there. But I was rummaging thru a hole in the wall shop of replica guns and there in the case was a battered PPK -- it was the real thing, magazine, etc. without bullets of course. I reminded me of TMWTGG where Bond visits Macao and the gunsmith. I asked the owner if it was for sale. Nope.

*** -- but airports of course still hire only rent-a-copsfor the x-ray machines, so they don't have that much incentive. That said, the cop who pulled me over was a big city cop; Since the PPK didn't show up on the scanners, it's doubtful that anyone could have found it, unless of course they had looked in every corner of luggage. Anyway, that tells you how easy it is to bring strange things in. I could have brought in illicit DIAMONDS ('exquisite'), etc.

On another tangent story, a funny friend of my dad overseas (I was visiting there) half-jokingly said he could rig my shoes to carry diamonds. Shades of Q. He has a full workshop, so he really could.

Yesh, Cmdr 0077 knows a lot of shady characters. Did I tell you the one about the fellow at the embassy in Tokyo ..... Was his friend named Dikko? hm....